Who Pays for Providing Spiritual Care in Healthcare Settings? The Ethical Dilemma of Taxpayers Funding Holistic Healthcare and the First Amendment Requirement for Separation of Church and State |
| |
Authors: | Carla Jean Pease Warnock |
| |
Institution: | (1) Board of Global Ministries–UMC, 1878 Hebron Hills Drive, Tucker, GA 30084, USA |
| |
Abstract: | All US governmental, public, and private healthcare facilities and their staff fall under some form of regulatory requirement
to provide opportunities for spiritual health assessment and care as a component of holistic healthcare. As often the case
with regulations, these facilities face the predicament of funding un-reimbursable care. However, chaplains and nurses who
provide most patient spiritual care are paid using funds the facility obtains from patients, private, and public sources.
Furthermore, Veteran healthcare services, under the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), are provided with taxpayer
funds from local, state, and federal governments. With the recent legal action by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc.
(FFRF) against the Veterans Administration, the ethical dilemma surfaces between taxpayers funding holistic healthcare and
the first amendment requirement for separation of church and state. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|