Pastoral Care Services

Tending to your spiritual and emotional needs

An integrated and important part of the Mountainside Medical Center healthcare team, our chaplains are available to provide counsel and support to loved ones, caregivers and patients, regardless of religious affiliations.

Creating a caring presence throughout the hospital and the community, we:

• Visit patients
• Counsel families
• Participate in ethics and prognosis consults as needed
• Serve on the Palliative Care Committee
• Participate in public events with appropriate prayer services
• Support the Mountainside bereavement group
• Offer spiritual and emotional support to patients, families and staff
• Support and assist clergy and ministers who visit their congregants in the hospital

Helping Hands Christmas Drive:

Making the holidays a little brighter

In 2004, the Pastoral Care Department reached out to the Salvation Army with an offer of assistance during the Christmas holiday season. The rest is history. Each year, the office contacts a social worker at the Salvation Army and asks her to compile a list of families who might need some help at Christmas. Lists include the family members by gender and age, to protect the identity and retain the dignity of the families, and suggestions of what each needs. This information is then disseminated throughout the departments of the hospital and each family is "adopted." Each year, the number of families increases. We help between 20 and 30 families each season, thanks to the generosity of the hospital staff.

In 2018, the department was contacted by a representative of the National Angel Tree Prison Network. This group provides presents for children, who through no fault of their own, find themselves with one or both parents incarcerated, and who are often in the care of a grandparent or other relative.  Employees become angels for these children by providing one present.  This holiday season, thirteen children are being given a little something to smile about, the love and care of angels.

Chaplains

Catholic

Rev. Thomas M. Cembor, Director
In Office: Thursday to Tuesday
973-429-5089
Beeper: 1-877-404-6229
Cell: 973-768-9383
E-mail: Thomas.Cembor@mountainsidehosp.com

Protestant

Rev. Ingrid Singh
In Office: Tuesday to Thursday
973-429-5048
E-mail: ingrid.singh@mountainsidehosp.com

Jewish

At this time, upon request through the Pastoral Care Office

For more information contact, Rev. Thomas M. Cembor, D. Min. at 973-429-6000, ext 5089or email Thomas.Cembor@mountainsidehosp.com.