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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS If you, a member of your family, or a friend is being admitted to hospital, please ensure, or ask them to ensure, that details of religion are included in the admission records. Religion can often not be recorded by hospital staff, which means that Catholic patients can be overlooked, as the chaplains have no way of knowing that they are Catholics. If a priest is required at Croydon University hospital in an emergency, one of the ward staff should be asked to request the hospital switchboard to page the duty Catholic chaplain. Please do not telephone a priest or a parish directly. The switchboard must handle all emergencies, as this avoids confusion and ensures that a priest can be obtained speedily. This system, however, should only be used in genuine emergencies.
Catholic Chaplaincy at Mayday
The Roman Chaplaincy at Croydon University Hospital is provided by a team of priests, deacons and lay people from the Croydon Deanery. Fr. Francis Moran, parish priest of St. Andrew’s, Thornton Heath, is the RC Chaplaincy co-ordinator. His presbytery phone number is (020) 8684 3013. The RC Chaplaincy is in the on-site, day-to-day care of Sr. Sheila DMJ.
For the ordinary pastoral care of patients in the Croydon University Hospital there is a named priest/deacon and named ministers of the Eucharist for each ward. This team of priests, deacons and lay people are drawn from the parishes in the Croydon deanery. A priest or deacon generally visits their ward once a week and holy communion is brought by eucharistic ministers to each ward on a Sunday.
The Roman Catholic Chaplaincy is part of the wider ecumenical chaplaincy provided at Croydon University Hospital. There is a team of ecumenical visitors (from all denominations) who visit all patients on the wards. There is a non-Catholic church service in the hospital chapel on Sundays at 10am where a Roman Catholic Eucharistic Minister is available to distribute holy communion to Catholic patients who are present.
On Ash Wednesday and on Every Monday in Lent 2012 there will be a Mass at 12:00 noon in the hospital’s St Barnabas Chapel.
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