Chapel & Office Locations and Hours
McLeod Regional Medical Center
Pastoral Services Office: 1st floor of the McLeod Tower
Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Phone Number: (843) 777-2119 
A Chaplain can also be reached by calling the McLeod Switchboard (843) 777-2000.

Chapel Locations
Lobby of the McLeod Tower
Lobby of the McLeod Pavilion
Open 24 hours a day, the Chapels are available to patients and visitors for meditation, prayer or quiet reflection.

Our Mission
The Pastoral Services Department believes each person is a creation of God as a result of God's perfect love. In God's eyes, each person has unique dignity and personal worth simply because he or she is a human being. Through redemptive love, God seeks to establish a personal one-to-one relationship with each of us.

In keeping with this belief, the Pastoral Services Department has as its mission that of being a visible expression of God's love for all patients, families and staff of McLeod Regional Medical Center.

The following statements further explain our beliefs and what it means to be a visible expression of God's love. We seek to convey that:

1. God is One and is always with us in a very personal way, struggling in us and with us for our healing.
2. God does not send illness as a punishment. We live in a world where nature is set free and has the capacity to become destructive. But God is above and beyond nature. God does not cause our suffering, but God's face may be found in our suffering.
3. Healing from suffering encompasses more than treating one's physical and mental symptoms. Healing occurs when hurting people are helped to reevaluate themselves in light of their relationships with God, others and themselves.
4. The process of healing happens best in the context of supportive, caring relationships where God's love, grace and forgiveness is experienced.

You can call upon us
A Chaplain is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can contact a chaplain by calling the hospital operator who will page the chaplain who is on duty.

The ministries of the Pastoral Services Department are not forced upon anyone but are offered and made available to all who request them.

When to Contact a Chaplain:

• In crisis situations
• During times of emotional stress
• When you are lonely or anxious
• When you desire scripture or prayer
• When awaiting surgery, diagnosis or prognosis
• At times of loss or grief
• When anticipating a loss
• When you need help in arranging a visit by your own clergy or faith group representative

Chaplaincy Services we provide include:

• Availability 24 hours a day
• Spiritual support and counseling
• Participation in family conferences
• Participation in Ethics Consults
• Crisis intervention
• Memorial Services
• Consultations
• Participation in the Palliative Care Program 
• Support to Hospital Staff          

Visiting Clergy
Community Clergy are encouraged to continue their pastoral relationship with their members by visiting them when they are hospitalized. Patient room numbers may be obtained at the information desk in either the McLeod Tower or the McLeod Pavilion.

• Privileges. Visiting clergy are welcome and encouraged to visit members of their own congregations when those members are hospitalized. Please review this document for more information on the instructions and privileges for Visiting Clergy.

• Identification. A Visiting Clergy Photo ID Badge is issued by the McLeod Human Resources Department. After reviewing the Visiting Clergy policy, please complete the Visiting Clergy Badge Request Form and the Non-Employees ID Card Authorization Form and return them to John Schumacher, Director, in the Pastoral Services Department.

• Parking. Nine parking spaces have been reserved for visiting clergy. There are six in the parking area between the McLeod Tower and the McLeod Pavilion Tower and three in the front parking lot near the Emergency Department. Vehicles must have a clergy parking decal affixed to the left rear window or left side of the bumper to park in these designated spaces. Review this document for more information on Clergy Parking.