Be Ready for New Jersey's Palliative Care Benefit
Partner with SpirituWell to expand 24/7, professional, interfaith spiritual care across your community-based palliative care program.
The new community-based palliative care benefit launches February 1, 2026. Most organizations are behind on staffing, training, and interdisciplinary team readiness. SpirituWell makes it easy for palliative care providers in New Jersey to meet chaplain requirements, have a compliant interdisciplinary care team, and provide high quality spiritual care to patients and caregivers. This page gives you everything you need to build internal buy-in and move your leadership team toward a confident, timely decision.
Fact Sheet: Spiritual Care Requirements for Palliative Care in New Jersey
How we fit into New Jersey's new palliative care benefit and compliance expectations.
DownloadSpirituWell Services Overview & Case Study
How we currently scale high quality spiritual care with an outpatient serious illness provider.
DownloadSpiritual Screening & Assessment Framework
How we conduct spiritual needs screenings and spiritual assessments to inform care planning and delivery.
DownloadBy the Numbers
200
Inpatient and Outpatient Sites with integrated virtual spiritual care
15
Minutes to fulfill an on-demand appointment
3
Months or less to implement services into clinical workflow
15
Religious Denominations Represented
57
%
Patients with multiple visits with SpirituWell chaplain
24
Hour access to spiritual care services
Client Success Stories
Filling Inpatient Coverage Gaps
Health System
A faith-based, regional health system struggled to provide after-hours spiritual care in its 150-bed hospital. SpirituWell filled 144 hours of weekly coverage, ensuring patients and families had access to professional chaplains on nights, weekends, and holidays.
Expanding Access to Infusion Centers
Ambulatory Treatment Centers
A health system had no chaplain coverage in its outpatient infusion centers for oncology and chronic illness care. SpirituWell extended professional spiritual care into these settings—offering scheduled and on-demand support for patients facing serious illness and treatment-related distress.
Introducing Spiritual Care in Dialysis
Serious Illness Provider
A national dialysis provider partnered with SpirituWell to introduce spiritual care across 200+ outpatient clinics and home-based treatment programs. Our chaplains deliver assessments, individualized care plans, and responsive support—helping address grief, identity, and meaning in long-term illness.
Rural Hospital Without Coverage
Health System
A national, faith-based health system provided chaplaincy in urban flagship hospitals but lacked coverage in its rural and critical access sites. SpirituWell filled the gap—bringing 24/7 access to spiritual care for patients and teams across smaller hospitals and remote clinics.
Schedule a discovery call to explore how SpirituWell can support your patients, teams, and system-wide goals.
In your Discovery Call, here’s what we’ll cover:
- Understand Your Coverage Gaps: we’ll ask about your current approach to assessing and addressing spiritual needs and learn about your chaplain staffing needs.
- Overview of Our Services & Team: we’ll share more about our chaplain team’s qualifications, experience, and scope of services.
- How We Integrate: we’ll demonstrate how we integrate with clinical workflows and explore how we can tailor our model to meet your specific needs.
Flexible, Scalable Partnerships
- Scope-based pricing tied to coverage needs, utilization, or population access
- Clinically integrated: documentation, workflow, care coordination
- Adapted to your staffing and clinical model
Our Services
Spiritual Assessment & Care Planning
Assess unmet spiritual needs and existential distress using standardized, evidence-based tools that inform personalized care plans—supported by documentation that enhances interdisciplinary communication, care coordination, and compliance.
Spiritual Care Visits
On-demand and scheduled video and phone visits that provide emotional and spiritual support to patients and families navigating serious illness, loss, grief, and existential distress.
Advance Care Planning Facilitation
Facilitate advance care planning conversations that help patients and families explore how their spiritual, religious, or cultural beliefs shape care preferences—enabling informed decisions aligned with their values and medical needs.
Care Team Consultation
Support clinicians, social workers, and nurses with chaplain consultation on patient spiritual, religious, and cultural considerations—ensuring respectful, person-centered care and helping teams navigate beliefs that may impact trust, communication, or treatment decisions.
Ready for a Discovery Call?
Provide us with some information and a SpirituWell representative will get in touch.
Are you a chaplain interested in joining our chaplain team?
Are you a current patient with a question?
