Hospital Chaplains And Counselors Are Frontline Workers, Too

WNYC News | Apr 1, 2020

Hospitals are growing more tense by the day as the influx of severe coronavirus cases puts pressure on doctors, nurses, orderlies -- everyone in the health care system. Mental health counselors and chaplains are trying to help workers who are being compared to soldiers on the front lines. Rabbi Jo Hirschmann is director of Spiritual Care and Education at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. She joins Jami Floyd on All Things Considered to discuss what she's seeing and what counselors can do to help these workers at this unprecedented time.

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