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Health Sciences Campus - Ministry
Health Sciences Campus Ministry
Health Sciences Campus Ministry has a three-fold mission that focuses on the members of the Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus. Inspired by Ignatian values and the practical spirituality of finding God in all things, we work towards:
Shaping Community
Through educational programs and events, prayer and worship, hospitality and outreach, social activities and attention to the needs of the individual we build a welcoming and inclusive community for students, staff and faculty.
Seeking Faith
We journey with the people who teach, learn and work at the Health Sciences Campus by providing spiritual formation and faith development while facilitating individual and communal prayer. True to our experience of the Gospel, we welcome and engage individuals of all faith backgrounds or traditions to grow into becoming men and women for others.
Serving Broadly
By embracing a worldview that is both local and global we facilitate and sponsor opportunities for members of the Health Sciences Campus to work with underserved communities in the greater Chicago area and beyond.
HSC Ministry's 2024-2025 Programming
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The Spiritual Side of College
Jesuits Magazine
On LUC’s Health Sciences Campus, west of downtown Chicago, students are a bit older, either in graduate studies or on a professional track. Campus ministers work with instructors to meet with those students in the classroom to help them reflect on their training and clinical experiences as they study to become doctors and nurses.
Loyola’s Chaplain Mentor Program gets to the heart of patient-centered care
Loyola Today
“We want to train doctors who can feel and who can be in touch with emotions,” said Ann Hillman, director of Health Sciences Campus Ministry. “As a physician, you absolutely have to tough it out sometimes and perform difficult medical tasks like surgeries, but you also need to feel with the patient at appropriate times so that you retain your humanity and you reflect the humanity of someone else.”
Anatomy Course Blessing Ceremony
Loyola Today
For at least 25 years, the HSC Ministry team has partnered with faculty and students for an official blessing ceremony at the beginning and end of the course. Other medical schools around the Chicago area and across the country have similar programs.
Loyola University Chicago's
Land Acknowledgement Statement
THE LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO COMMUNITY ACKNOWLEDGES its location on the ancestral homelands of the Council of the Three Fires (the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi tribes) and a place of trade with other tribes, including the Ho-Chunk, Miami, Menominee, Sauk, and Meskwaki. We recognize that descendants of these and other North American tribes continue to live and work on this land with us. We recognize the tragic legacy of colonization, genocide, and oppression that still impacts Native American lives today.
As a Jesuit, Catholic university, we affirm our commitment to issues of social responsibility and justice. We further recognize our responsibility to understand, teach, and respect the past and present realities of local Native Americans and their continued connection to this land.
The culmination of a multi-year process, Loyola’s Land Acknowledgement Statement started when a group of faculty, students, and staff convened to discuss what our university can do to welcome and support Indigenous people—a population that remains underrepresented in higher education. The group consulted with local Indigenous leaders, historians, students of Indigenous ancestry, and others. Together, they crafted the Land Acknowledgement Statement, along with a set of recommendations on how our university can act in solidarity with Native peoples and advance our social justice mission. The university ratified the Land Acknowledgement Statement in 2020, and we continue our efforts to build a supportive and welcoming environment for Indigenous people at Loyola. In 2023, the university installed campus signs displaying the Land Acknowledgement Statement. The signs feature illustrations by Indigenous artist Buffalo Gouge.