Health Ministry

Our Faith Community Nurse, Kathryn Aubrey-McAvoy, is a family nurse practitioner whose ministry focuses on the care of the spirit as part of the process of promoting holistic health and preventing or minimizing illness in a faith community.

A parish nurse is a:

•  Health Educator
•  Health Counselor and referral agent
•  Member of the Pastoral Care Team
•  Embodies a vital theology of the body to enable care for the whole person in body, mind, and spirit.
•  Participates fully in the healing heritage that we have in the Christian tradition in worship, sacraments, outreach, support groups, and educational activities.

The Faith Community Nurse is available for hospital, home, and nursing home visits in collaboration with the entire Pastoral Care Team. Parishioners may have questions regarding medications, diseases, treatments and health care directives.  Reactions to illness and to the stresses of life can be explored.  Referrals to community services may be made.  All communications between the parish nurse and client are treated in a confidential manner, consistent with the ​​with the Nurse Practice Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).  Click here to contact Kathryn Aubry-McAvoy NP