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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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