Orange County, CA

VITAS Innovative Hospice Care
220 Commerce, Suite 100
Irvine, CA 92602

Phone: 1-800-486-6157 ext 5664
Phone: 1-714-921-2273
For more information visit: www.vitas.com
e-mail: Linda.Bos@vitas.com
Stipend: $25,000

Full-time and part-time learning opportunities for CPE for interns, and year-long residencies. Intern units begin in June and September; residency begins the end of August. Learn in a supportive, active, multi-disciplinary environment. Didactic, interpersonal, verbatim, inter-cultural and theological seminars.

Visitation of patients to provide spiritual care at the end-of-life in their homes, or long tern care and assisted living facilities in Orange County. Ministry for the care-giver and bereavement support are also areas of experience that are offered.

Rev. Linda Bos has been a chaplain with VITAS Innovative Hospice Care for sixteen years. She has been ordained since 1985, being raised in the Reformed Church of America and then moving to the United Church of Christ in the 1990's. She is currently working on the Associate level of Supervisory education in the ACPE. Prior to her work with VITAS, she served for seven years as an Associate Pastor with the Crystal Cathedral Ministries in Garden Grove, CA. She is the VITAS co-chair of the Southern California Clinical Ethics Committee and serves on the Institutional Bio-Ethics Committee of the Children's Hospital of Orange County.

Supervisor:
Dr. John Gillman, Ph.D.