Rev. Frank Macht, Director of Chaplaincy, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

• Main Authors: Macht, Frank, Bonica, Mark
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2016
• Subjects: chaplain; chaplaincy; hospital; spiritual; spiritual care; Hitchcock; Nome; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/hlf/21; https://scholars.unh.edu/context/hlf/article/1072/type/native/viewcontent

The guest in this episode of The Health Leader Forge is the Reverend Frank Macht, the director of the Chaplaincy. Frank is a minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, although he is originally from Germany. They reflect on his journey, as he refers to it, and the experiences he has had as he served and trained all over the United States, from Berkley, California, to Atlanta, Georgia, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Nome, Alaska and finally to Lebanon, New Hampshire. Frank was first called to ministry as a hospital chaplain through a training program known as clinical pastoral education. His interest in this specialized form of ministry led him to become a clinical pastoral education supervisor, which allows him to supervise the clinical training of other chaplains. In this podcast they discuss the training a hospital chaplain goes through, the role of the hospital chaplain, and specifically the role of the Chaplaincy at Dartmouth-Hitchcock.