The Pastoral Healthcare Network, Australia (PHNA) -ABN: 53 032 134 976 formally Lighthouse InterChurch Health Ministries, is devoted to facilitating holistic healthcare for all – considering the body, mind and spirit in the healing process.
Operating as a not-for-profit health promotion charity, The Pastoral Healthcare Network, Australia (PHNA) primarily provides Registered Nurses and Health Ministry Associates to deliver creative and holistic healthcare to our community. Our Nurses and HMA’s address peoples pain in a unique and holistic way, respectful of each individuals cultural and religious belief.
We exist to bridge the acknowledged gap in healthcare provision between science and spirituality. The Spiritual and Emotional pain associated with grief , loss and illness are often overlooked, our staff and HMA’s are trained to help alleviate this pain and encourage hope and meaning in suffering.
Our work is complemented by a series of partnerships , patrons, and facilities which offer an extensive range of practical and spiritual solutions to our health outreach – hence the term ‘Network’ in our name.
We do this specifically through outreach health preventative programs, unique resources, individual consultation and training for health practitioners.
This is combined with the provision of customised health promotion information sessions, wellness activities, community outreach activities helping to create supportive environments which assist healing and health.
We draw a vocational inspiration for this outreach from a desire to serve God and to share Him with the people we meet.
VISION & MISSION STATEMENTS
Vision
The Pastoral Healthcare Network Australia (PHNA) is devoted to facilitating holistic healthcare for all – considering the body, mind and spirit in the healing process.
We draw a vocational inspiration for this outreach from a desire to serve God and to share His Healing Love with the people we meet.
Mission
Operating as a not-for-profit health promotion charity, The Pastoral Healthcare Network Australia (PHNA) primarily provides Registered Nurses and ancillary support staff to deliver creative and holistic healthcare to our community.
Our work is complemented by a series of partnerships , patrons, and facilities which offer an extensive range of practical and spiritual solutions to our health outreach – hence the term ‘Network’ in our name.
Our Vision & Mission is Rooted in Our Desire to Serve & Present the Healing Love of God to All
PHNA Board Of Management
Rose Hoey . RN. RM. MRCNA
Owner Colbrow Healthcare
Nurses Agency
Corporate Sponsor
Leonie Rastas RN. RM. FRCNA
Clinical Pastoral Education certificate,
Cert IV Workplace Training & Assessment
Co Founder LICHM inc
Consultant Pastoral Nurse/Midwife
Director Parish Nurse Education
Sr Carmel O’Dwyer - BA, M Ed, MACE, Dip.Sp.L
Sister of Mercy, Retired Principal of large Catholic Secondary Colleges (24 years)
Patron, Pastoral Health Ministry of LICHM
Financial, administrative expertise
Shayne Sullivan – Chair B Ed , Registered Myotherapist & Remedial Therapist
Businesswoman, Owner / Manager, Geelong Natural Therapies.
Maree Burn,– Board Director ex officio Secretary
Past PA to Deputy & Assistant Commissioner of Police Victoria
VACC Training Consultant, Bicycle Education
JoVeta Wescott, RN, MSHA
Parish Nurse: Consultant/Educator; Exec. Dir. Kansas Parish Nurse Ministries
Clare Gray -Secretary Stroke Stroke Association Victoria
Honorary Advisors
Patrick Rowan –CPA , Auditor
Patrick Rowan & Associates Accountants
Dr. Michael Carroll,
MBBS, Dip OBS, RACOG, FRACCP
Practising Doctor,
Part owner Health’e Medical Clinic
Hugh McKenzie –B Econ, LLB.
Special Council, Harwood Andrews, Lawyers Geelong
The PHNA Organisation
Rose Hoey . RN. RM. MRCNA
Consultant Pastoral Nurse/Midwife
Leonie Rastas RN. RM MRCNA
Consultant Pastoral Nurse/Midwife
Director Parish Nurse Education
Sr Carmel O’Dwyer -
BA M Ed MACE
Health Ministry Associate
Shayne Sullivan B Ed , Registered
Myotherapist & Remedial Therapist
Maree Burn,
Volunteer Pastoral Healthcare Associate
PATRONS
The work of Pastoral Healthcare Network is inspired by the charisms and works of some of Australias great pioneers -:
Catherine McAuley
Catherine McAuley was born into a reasonably well off family but learned early in her life what it meant to be poor as she accompanied her father in his regular visits to assist the struggling, poverty stricken poor of Dublin in the 19th century. After her fathers death Catherine experienced personally the hardships of not having the necessities of life. A Quaker couple who needed someone to care for them took Catherine into their home, and her gentle, kind, compassionate manner led her to becoming the beneficiary of their considerable fortune. With this she fulfilled her life-long dream of building a House of Mercy to provide selter for the poor women and young girls of Dublin, and to enable them to be trained to earn a living with dignity. When it became clear to Catherine that in order to give her work stability she must become a religious, she founded Sisters of Mercy in 1831.
Blessed Mary Mc Killop
Declared Australias first Saint on December 20th 2009. Foundress of the Sisters of St Joseph, Mary as well as being extremely compassionate, was strong willed. She stood up for what she believed, which brought her into conflict with religious leaders.
Caroline Chisholm -
who was renowned for her charitable work at a personal and public level and for the social reforms and improvements she achieved in the 19th century.
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TODAY our work is supported by the following Panel of Patrons.
Sr Carmel O’Dwyer
Carmel O’Dwyer is a Sister of Mercy of the Melbourne Congregation and until 2001, her ministry was in secondary education, with 24 years as Principal of 3 Colleges. Her last educational appointment was to Sacred Heart College, Geelong. Carmel served on several Victorian education committees and the Mercy Health & Aged Care Rice Village Advisory Board.
After working for some time in her Congregation’s archives, Carmel was appointed as the first Pastoral and Liturgical Co-ordinator for 3 Catholic parishes being linked in a Cluster arrangement. It was here she met and came to greatly admire the ministry of newly appointed Pastoral Nurse, Leonie Rastas. In 2006 she retired from the Cluster to help care for 2 of her immediate family diagnosed with cancer, and in doing this, experienced first hand the role of a Pastoral Nurse.
Three of Carmel’s father’s sisters were St. John of God Sisters. They were Sisters Ambrose, Vincent and Genevieve .Sr Genevieve died in 2003, in her 100th year. Between them they would have nursed for over 150 years and they had always impressed Sr Carmel by their holistic approach to nursing, with its clear parallels to today’s Pastoral Nursing practice.
It was these two influences that caused Carmel to embrace Pastoral Nursing through the Health Ministry Advisory Team and in 2006 as a Board Member of the Lighthouse Inter -Church Health Ministries Inc
In 2007 Carmel accepted the position of Patron of the Pastoral arm of LICHM, Pastoral Healthcare Services, and today remains Patron of the renamed Pastoral Healthcare Network Australia PHNA.
Monsignor James Murray
Monsignor James Murray was ordained to the priesthood and has served in the Archdiocese of Melbourne for the past 59 Years.
In his early ministry he served as private Secretary to Archbishop Justin Simmonds and Archbishop James Knox.
In 1968 he was appointed Parish Priest of St Mary’s Geelong and Episcopal Vicar of the Geelong region.
Since his retirement in April 2001 he has continued being actively involved in community groups. He is a member of the Geelong Catholic Social Justice group, Chairman of the Geelong InterFaith network and a member of the Geelong No Interest Loan scheme.
Monsignor Murray has been associated with the Geelong Pastoral Healthcare Network for the past 4 years and has provided wonderful pastoral support and leadership. ‘
Clara Geoghegan
Clara Geoghegan BA, BTheol, GradDidEd PhD(cand)
Clara has extensive experience in spiritual gift discernment through teaching the Called and Gifted workshop. She is Called and Gifted Coordinator for the Archbishop’s Office for Evangelisation (Melbourne). Clara is co-director of the Siena Institute, Australia which is the provider of Called and Gifted Workshops across Australia. Clara is also a sessional lecturer in Spirituality and Church History at Catholic Theological College Melbourne. One of her principal research interests is the life and work of Australian pioneer and social reformer, Caroline Chisholm.
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