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Many hospital chaplaincy departments explicitly offer support to staff, not just patients. For instance, Intermountain Healthcare describes that chaplains “support patients and staff with spiritual and religious concerns” . Ensuring that chaplains round on units to check in on physicians or hold optional debriefs after difficult cases is a concrete practice that supports clinicians’ spirituality. Some hospitals have a chaplain assigned as a “physician support chaplain” who might, for example, host a monthly reflection session for doctors. Documentation of chaplain availability to staff (pamphlets, intranet announcements) and any utilization of those services would serve as evidence here.