Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
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Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

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DHMC's Employee Assistance Program: Resources and Support for Staff, Physicians, and Family Members

What does the Employee Assistance Program offer?

  • A free and confidential counseling service
  • Up to six visits per year with a professional counselor
  • Assistance with a variety of difficulties including family relationships, emotional or physical well-being, job performance issues

A referral source, when extended counseling, support, or medication is needed or when there are medical, legal or financial problems

Reflection...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

        -- Margaret Mead, US anthropologist & popularizer of anthropology (1901 - 1978)

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Did You Know?

From Pat McCoy, Chaplaincy Director, comes this wonderful message about the Chapel at DHMC:

As you know, the Hospital Chapel was made possible by a gift from the DHMC Auxiliary, and I couldn't say enough about what that gift has meant to the spiritual care of patients, families and staff.  On a daily basis it serves as a place of refuge for people of all persuasions who find themselves pressed by fears or grief and yearning for a way to connect with a sense of love and peace that is greater than their burdens.  Not long ago, I was showing it to a farmer whose wife has been badly injured in an accident.  We stood side by side, and I could see his gaze drawn raptly up to the window.  After several minutes of silence, he said quietly, "Just standing here I can't help but know that He is in this place with me."

The opportunity to experience that boost must have been in the minds of the planners and donors who created the space.  As I heard the story when I joined DHMC, a part of the planning for the new facility involved a survey of employees to determine what they thought was needed.  As the story went, a chapel emerged among the top needs, since the old MHMH had done without one.  I also remember hearing a story from Fr. Roland Nadeau, a former Catholic chaplain here at DHMC, about the inaugural use of the chapel for the first emergency admission, on the first day of occupancy.  I emailed him this morning for details of the story, and his response follows.

Fr. Nadeau writes:

"You ask about the DHMC Chapel. I clearly recall the case to which you refer.

The great Move Day had finally arrived. It was October 5, 1991 (I stand to be corrected on that date.) Everybody had a job and was assigned duties that would help assure a smooth and uneventful move. Great care and expense had been invested in converting a number of ambulances into mobile ICU rooms in order to assure that the most critically ill patients could be safely moved to the new Medical Center one mile distant.

The Chaplains had their job as well. All were to report on duty at 4am of the Move Day to assure availability of crisis intervention as needed -- 2 remained at the old campus and 2 were assigned to the Lebanon campus. I (Roland Nadeau) was assigned to the new campus to search out and accompany any family members who were anxious about their loved ones.

I recall that about 6am, I was called to the new ER where a new patient was being admitted and being rushed to surgery for a cerebral aneurism. The patient's husband was present and requesting the Sacrament of Anointing for his wife. Dr. Robert Harbough, neurosurgeon, was the admitting physician.

Because of the medical urgency of this case, the medical team along with the husband, his daughter and I rode the elevator up to the surgery suites while I administered the Sacrament. That journey took very little time, and before we knew it, husband, daughter and chaplain were left gazing through the window at nothing in particular. The medical team had already disappeared behind the closed door of one of the operating rooms.

At this point, I invited the family members to come with me to the Chapel of the new Medical Center. The moment lives in my memory, even now years later, that as we prayed for a successful medical intervention, I also thanked God that we had this wonderful space of the Chapel in which to pray and reflect as the bustle and busyness of opening day in a new hospital were kept at bay behind the closed door. As I recall, it was during that prayer experience that I first came to really appreciate the Sabra Field stained glass window."