Whole-person care
Spiritual care
Illness touches more than the body. Our chaplains are here for patients and the people who love them, to help with the spiritual side of healing and with the worry a hospital stay can bring.
Our chaplains
Andrews Memorial is a Seventh-day Adventist hospital, and our mission is to extend Christ’s healing ministry. Meeting a patient’s spiritual and mental needs, alongside the physical ones, has been part of that work since the hospital opened. A full-time chaplain has served here since 1956.
We care for every patient whatever their class, race or religion, and the same is true of our chaplains. A chaplain will pray with you, read Scripture with you, or sit and listen, as you prefer.
Chaplains also travel with the hospital’s outreach teams. After Hurricane Melissa, Assistant Chaplain Pastor Eric Nathan was among the 25 staff who took care packages and hot meals to Black River Hospital. Community and partners
How to ask for a chaplain
- If you’re a patient
- Tell your nurse that you’d like to see a chaplain.
- If you’re a relative
- Ask at the nurses’ station on the unit, or call (876) 926-7401 and ask for the chaplain.
The chapel
There is a chapel on the hospital grounds, completed in 2017.
Next door at 29 Hope Road is the Andrews Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Church, a congregation that began as the hospital’s own chapel.
The Sabbath at Andrews
Seventh-day Adventists keep the Sabbath from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday as a day of rest and worship. Caring for the sick doesn’t pause: Accident & Emergency is open 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and patients on the units are looked after as on any other day.
Departments that can be planned around do close on Saturdays, among them the Pharmacy, the Dental Centre, the Laboratory and U.S. Medical. Several of them open on Sundays instead. Opening hours
A word for today
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
- Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee.Isaiah 41:10
- Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Matthew 11:28
- God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.Psalm 46:1
- He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.Psalm 147:3
- For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord.Jeremiah 30:17
- Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.John 14:27