Taitung MacKay's Spiritual Care Program Wins Award for Enhancing Healthcare Worker Resilience

(CNA, Taitung County, May 20, by reporter Lu Tai-cheng) Taitung MacKay Memorial Hospital promotes spiritual care, holding regular unit worship services and using "12 virtues" to make abstract spiritual concepts tangible, thereby enhancing the resilience of its medical staff. The results were compiled into a poster paper, which won an outstanding paper award. In a press release today, Taitung MacKay Memorial Hospital stated that in recent years, the global healthcare system has faced high uncertainty and long-term pressure, including the impact of the pandemic, major disasters, medical staff shortages, and continuously rising workloads. This has subjected medical professionals to unprecedented psychological, emotional, and spiritual challenges. Taitung MacKay has long prioritized the cultivation of psychological toughness and resilience among its medical staff. The spiritual care promoted by the Chaplaincy Department has been deeply rooted for many years. It not only holds regular unit worships, hospital fellowships, and craft activities but also uses MacKay Memorial Hospital's unique "12 virtues" as its core axis. Paired with different themes each quarter and integrating the four major elements of "heaven, people, things, and self," it makes abstract spiritual concepts concrete and deeply felt. Taitung MacKay stated that the Chaplaincy Department turned its years of methods and results in promoting employee spiritual care into a poster paper. In its first time participating in the poster paper competition at the International Symposium on Spiritual Care, organized by Fu Jen Catholic University Hospital, it stood out from many other poster papers to win the outstanding paper award. This fully demonstrates the high level of recognition for the professionalism of the spiritual care promoted by Taitung MacKay in the hospital over many years.