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As superintendent, Alfred K. Baur established a chaplaincy program at the hospital. Determined to treat spiritual as well as physical and mental needs, Baur hired Reverend Dr. William Rogers as the hospital's first full-time chaplain in 1956. Rogers conducted chapel in each building and offered spiritual counseling. He also laid the foundation for today's Clinical Pastoral Education Program, wherein religion students serve twelve-month internships, not to evangelize, but to learn to approach patients as humans. With rising patient diversity, today's program is challenged to work with many faiths.
 Photo: Greg Olson
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Stained glass window from the chapel of the Biggs Center for the Criminally Insane. Designed by a patient of the Fulton State Hospital and crafted by Fulton artist Katherine Howser, 1990. |
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