Source: The Palm Beach Post Chaplain uses smartphone to connect dying with family members, often during last rites By Joe Capozzi The Palm Beach Post ATLANTIS — The priest’s cellphone buzzed again as he was visiting coronavirus patients. An hour earlier that day, April 1, he had given last rites to yet another COVID-19 patient at JFK Medical Center. But now he was needed again, in another room in the intensive care unit. So the Rev. Gabriel Ghanoum repeated his routine — solemn, courageous and tragically all too familiar — as a humble and technologically savvy hospital chaplain on the…
“If the nurses and doctors and respiratory techs are on the front line, I should be there, too,” says the Rev. Gabriel Ghanoum of his role in palliative care and administering last rites at JFK Medical Center. He’s shown here at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Delray Beach. [THOMAS CORDY/PALMBEACHPOST.COM]