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Sojourn Chaplaincy at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center aka Sojourn Chaplaincy Inc SFGH is a unique facility.

San Francisco General Hospital

SFGH is a Level 1 Trauma Center, a prestigious research center in collaboration with the UCSF School of Medicine, home of the only Psychiatric Emergency Service in San Francisco and provider of extensive in-patient and out-patient medical services to the diverse people of the San Francisco Bay Area. SFGH is operated by the City and County of San Francisco and is str

ongly committed to serving every individual who enters its doors regardless of ability to pay. Many of the patients we serve are socially and economically marginalized, homeless, suffer from mental illness or substance abuse or are victims of trauma or violence. With its bustling lobby and extensive grounds, it is a city unto itself. And yet, with staff singularly committed to providing excellent medical care to those individuals who face the most extensive barriers in accessing care, SFGH also has the feel of a loving family.

04/28/2026

This week is Patient Experience Week.

At Sojourn Chaplaincy, we’re grateful to be part of the Patient Experience community at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

Patient experience is not separate from care. It’s how care is received - whether someone feels respected, heard, and treated as a whole person in the midst of illness or crisis.

Every interaction matters. The way a question is asked. The time someone takes to listen. The presence offered when there are no easy answers.

Spiritual care is part of that experience. Our chaplains sit with patients and families in moments of fear, grief, and uncertainty, and we support staff who carry this work every day.

We’re grateful to be woven into this work, and to stand alongside all those who make care more compassion-full.

Who are you celebrating this patient experience week??

04/27/2026

We just wanna offer a deep bow of gratitude to everyone who has applied for our fall 2026 training program. We are sorting through the application and will be reaching out this week to setup interviews with applicants we will be moving forward with. We ask for your patience as we sort through applications and look forward to meeting many of you through the interview process.
It’s clear already that this Fall 2026 class is going to be something very special.

Have you ever applied for a chaplaincy training program?

04/22/2026

Environmental justice is public health.

Health is shaped by the conditions people live in: air, water, housing, and climate.

Here in San Francisco, these realities are not abstract. Communities like Bayview–Hunters Point have long faced environmental burdens that directly impact health, from air quality to industrial exposure, as well as generationally rooted unequal access to resources.

In healthcare settings, we see these conditions manifest in people’s lives every day.

Health is never only individual. It is shaped by the environment, our community, and systems of equity or systems of injustice.

As we mark Earth Day, we’re reminded that caring for people requires caring for the world we live in and that this work is inseparable from justice.

04/20/2026

Care does not happen in isolation.
In hospitals, in communities, in moments of crisis—care is something people carry together.

We see it every day.

In the ways staff support one another through long and difficult shifts.
In the quiet presence of someone sitting with a patient who is not alone.
In the many small, steady ways, people continue to show up for each other.

This is the heart of spiritual care.

It is not about having the right words.
It is about being willing to be present.

At Sojourn, spiritual care volunteers are trained through our Community Chaplaincy Training Program.
If you feel called to this kind of work, we invite you to learn more.

Applications for our Fall 2026 training program are open now and due at the end of April.

You can find the application at the link in our bio.

03/09/2026

March is Women’s History Month, and we are honoring the women who care for our communities every day.

In hospitals and clinics across the country, women serve as physicians, nurses, chaplains, social workers, and support staff-showing up with skill, compassion, and courage.

Some forms of care require courage.

Supporting patients through pregnancy, illness, and loss.
Standing with people at the most vulnerable moments of their lives.
Advocating for those whose humanity is being denied.

We are grateful for the women who continue to show up-day after day -to care for others and to protect the dignity of every patient.

Thank you.

03/03/2026

Spiritual Care is not neutral.

It calls us to be present with suffering and to confront the systems that cause it.

This fall Sojourn will relaunch our justice rooted chaplaincy training program.

Learn spiritual care in a public health context. We are forming spiritual care providers who hold steady in a crisis and stand strong against rising tides of injustice.

Applications open March 20, 2026.

02/25/2026

Join Sojourn Chaplaincy as we welcome Intercultural Network Groups for a special presentation about Suporting Muslim Patients during Ramadan. Come learn more about the ways that Islamophobia impacts Muslim patients in healthcare settings, the upcoming month of Ramadan, and ways that we can all work towards providing equitable and culturally responsive care for Muslim patients here at ZSFG.
Registration link in bio.

02/19/2026

As the month of Ramadan begins, we hold our Muslim patients, families, colleagues, and community members in prayer and deep respect.

Ramadan is a sacred time of fasting, reflection, generosity, and spiritual devotion observed by Muslims around the world. In healthcare settings, this month can shape meal timing, medication schedules, energy levels, and spiritual care needs.

At Sojourn Chaplaincy, we are committed to honoring these rhythms — supporting care that makes space for faith, dignity, and belonging.

Later this month, we’re grateful to partner again with Islamic Network Group for a workshop on supporting Muslim patients and colleagues during Ramadan.

Wishing a peaceful and blessed Ramadan to all who observe. 🌙

02/17/2026

As many welcome the Lunar New Year with family, food, and celebration, we’re holding deep gratitude for those marking the holiday at work.

Clinicians. Environmental services staff. Food service workers. Chaplains. Care teams across the hospital.

Thank you for the care you offer - even tonight.

May the spirit of hard work within you bring prosperity, joy, and good health to you and your family in the new year. 🏮🐎🔥

Who are you grateful for this Lunar New Year? Tag them so we can celebrate their care. ❤️🧧🎈

02/09/2026

One thing CPE does not talk about nearly enough is the roots of spiritual care in the Black Church.

Spiritual care is a deeply rooted African American tradition with origins in African healing practices — long before it was professionalized or institutionalized.

It was practiced in Black churches, on front porches, at bedsides, in the ring shout under the cover of night during slavery, in freedom movements, and through Hoodoo and other blended forms of spiritual resistance.

Black faith leaders - clergy and the often unrecognized women of the church - have long tended souls facing violence, systemic oppression, profound loss, survival, and hope.

They prayed with the dying.
Organized with the living.
Buried the dead.
Sang liberation into being.

Before chaplaincy was charted in patient notes, it was sung in sanctuaries.

The legacy of Black spiritual care is a legacy of building thriving care systems when healthcare institutions and the government were anything but care.

To honor Black History Month is to tell the truth:

Clinical spiritual care stands on foundations shaped by Black faith, pastoral resistance, and liberation struggle.

Chaplaincy did not invent this work. Chaplaincy inherited it.

May we honor this legacy through spiritual care that is rooted in bringing forth healing and justice — in our hospitals, our communities, and our movements.

Looking for CPE and/or spiritual care training that centers the Black experience?
Check out and their April 2026 conference.

Spiritual care and justice are inseparable.
How does that truth shape your practice?

01/26/2026

Alex Pretti was one of us.

Candlelight vigils happening tonight and all week to honor Alex Pretti RN as well as all those slain and harmed by ICE. Let’s transform our grief into community care and power.

Monday 1/26/26:

3:30pm - 4:15pm at San Jose Kaiser by the Parking structure and the ED.

5:15pm Kaiser Oakland in the breezeway between the hospital and garage.

5:30 PM at SF General Hospital, mother & baby statue

6 PM at Highland Hospital in Oakland The Highland vigil will be at the top of the hill on E 31st St, just past the ED entrance (or just before it if you’re coming from 14th Ave)

6 PM in front of Children’s Hospital in Oakland

6:30 PM at UCSF Mission Bay, 1975 4th St front plaza area

6:30 PM at Stanford hospital, 345 Campus Dr (corner of Roth and Stanford)

Tuesday 1/27/26:

6:30PM at SF VA Medical Center

The full except of the words in the slides above from Minnesota Timberwolves Chaplain Matt Moberg in comments.

12/26/2025

The work of Christmas doesn’t end on December 25.

Long after the songs fade and the season moves on, people are still living through illness, loss, fear and sudden change. Hospitals are still full. Families are still holding hard news.

This is where Sojourn chaplains show up. In hospital rooms, hallways, and moments most people never see, they offer presence without agenda and care without conditions. Sojourn chaplains remain offering steady presence in moments that don’t resolve quickly or neatly. Care that isn’t loud. Care that doesn’t look away.

As this year comes to a close, your support helps sustain that quiet, essential work—work that continues long after the holidays are over. The holidays end but the need for compassion does not.

If you’re able, please consider making an end-of-year gift.
The link is in our bio.

Address

San Francisco General Hospital And Trauma Center
San Francisco, CA
94110

Telephone

+14152068814

Website

http://www.sojournchaplaincy.org/

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