Tim Ledbetter

   
 


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Chaplain Tim Ledbetter
Hospice Chaplain

Chaplain Ledbetter is the newest member of the
in-home hospice team.  As a hospice chaplain, Tim’s mission is to help patients and their caregivers cope and find hope in their living
and dying
.  He can be reached at the office
(509) 783-7416 or by cell (509) 551-9495. 

Chaplain Ledbetter previously served The Chaplaincy for 12 years as a hospital chaplain.  While at Kadlec Medical Center, he developed
a process and format to screen, assess and document interventions for the computerized charting system.  The screening format utilizes the “Clinical+Coping Score” to determine intervention priorities.  The assessment and documentation formats are based on “Ledbetter’s 5Triads of Pastoral Perspective,” a comprehensive guideline for chaplains he developed and copyrighted.  When Kadlec’s open-heart surgery program opened in August, 2001, he integrated a Cardiac Pastoral Service to assist patients in coping with and integrating their surgery and rehabilitation experiences.  He was instrumental in the design and development of the hospital’s new Chapel and Garden, built in 2003. 

Tim also serves on the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL).  He co-developed a new discernment process for the protection of human research subjects utilized by the PNNL-IRB and numerous other IRBs around the country.

Ordained an American Baptist chaplain in 1981, Tim was board certified in 1996 by the Association of Professional Chaplains.  In 2002, San Francisco Theological Seminary awarded him the Doctor of Ministry degree for his dissertation/project on physician-chaplain collaboration.

Publications include presenting to the 2001 Wayne E. Oates Institute’s on-line conference on the topic, “Finding a Common Language: Spiritual Dynamics in the Care of Others”; and articles in the Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling, “Pastoral Perspectives in Pain Management,” 2001:55(4):379; and in Healing Ministry, “Anatomy of Visiting a Patient,” 2001:8(2);60.  A new article, “Screening for Pastoral Visitations Using the Clinical+Coping Score” has been accepted for publication by the
Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling.

Read an articles from Our Newsletter by Chaplain Ledbetter entitled: "Alongside the Main Business: The Place of the Chapel" and
"
Long Distance Care"


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