The learning opportunities for each of our program sites include the following topics:

• Advance Directives
• Behavioral Health
• Death and Dying
• Empathy & Compassionate care
• End of life or Terminal Diagnosis Care (Palliative Care)
• Family Systems Theory
• Grief, Loss, and Mourning
• Healing and Meaning-making
• Biomedical Ethics
• Spiritual Assessment
• Trauma and Crisis Care
• Worship and Ritual
• Health and Wellness (inpatient and outpatient)
• Working as part of an interdisciplinary care team

There are also opportunities during a unit to learn collaboratively with the other CPE sites within Centura Health.

St. Anthony North Health Campus – Westminster, CO
Rev. Janet Barriger, M.Div., ACPE Certified Educator
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Phone: 720-627-0045

St. Anthony Hospital – Lakewood, CO
Shannon Burk, M.Div., ACPE Certified Educator, Director of Mission and Spiritual Care
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Phone: 720-321-1768

Rev. Dr. Judith Roska, ACPE Certified Educator
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Phone: 720-321-1783

Our ACPE-accredited CPE programs require a minimum of 400 hours of learning for each unit, approximately 300 hours spent in clinical ministry, and 100 hours of group and supervised reflection and learning. Clinical time includes a variety of learning opportunities, including regular visitation during the week, with referrals and introductory visits, and on-call responsibilities to meet emergency needs within the hospital. Opportunities for ministry and relational care include care to patients, their families and loved ones, and staff in the hospital and some of our outpatient settings.

Year-Long Residency

The year-long CPE residency programs at each site cover three CPE units including fall extended, winter/spring extended, and summer intensive units. A prior unit of CPE and formal graduate level theological education is required to be considered for admission into the residency program. CPE residents are full-time hospital associates with salaries and benefits including Paid Time Off (PTO) and eligibility to participate in the Centura Health Benefits Plan.

Single Unit Internship

Centura Health CPE programs offers single unit CPE internships throughout the year and include fall extended, winter/spring extended, and summer intensive units. There is no stipend for single unit units.

Tuition cost per unit: $1,250.

To apply for the Year-Long Residency Program or Single-Unit Internship, please complete the Centura Health ACPE Application. A completed ACPE application, Bachelor's Degree (or Master's Degree in the case of the Residency Program), and an interview are required for consideration for admission. Attention is given to developing a CPE group with optimal possibility of learning (i.e., diversity). Centura Health CPE programs all encourage early applications.

There is no application fee. A non‑refundable $250.00 admissions fee is required upon acceptance into a Single-Unit Internship and is applied toward tuition. A refundable $250.00 admissions fee is required upon acceptance into the Residency. 

Completed applications to be sent to the Center or Cluster to which you are applying.

Centura Health CPE programs are accredited by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education. ACPE is the premier, Department-of-Education-recognized organization that provides the highest quality CPE programs for spiritual care professionals of any faith and in any setting. We do this through a rigorous accreditation and certification process for centers and educators that provide CPE. The depth of our training enables students to realize their full potential to strengthen the spiritual health of people in their care as well as themselves. For more information, visit ACPE.

St. Anthony Hospital is a Level I Trauma Center that includes Flight for Life Colorado, the first air-medical transport program in the country, serving a nine state region. Our program offers students clinical experience in trauma, emergency, intensive care, medical surgical units, inpatient rehabilitation, oncology, biomedical ethics, and palliative care among other specialties. Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) Board Certified staff chaplains also provide mentoring to CPE students.

CPE Offered

St. Anthony Hospital offers full-time year-long CPE Residency positions. We also offer CPE intern positions during the summer.

St. Anthony North moved from its former location in north Denver to St. Anthony North Hospital in early March 2015 located in the north central suburbs of metro Denver. We continue to support the spiritual and emotional needs of the patients and staff at our former site, now the 84th Avenue Neighborhood Health Center (NHC) with their Emergency Department and various outpatient clinics. Our neighborhood at 144th is booming with human development that seeks to dwell with the beauty of nature. Our health campus strives to connect to its natural surroundings in its construction and reflections of nature by over 400 artists throughout the facility.

CPE residents and interns cultivate the art of providing spiritual and emotional care in both inpatient and outpatient settings, integrated into the various departments and systems of medical care provided for healing, well-being, and wholeness. Learning and serving are woven together at St. Anthony North Hospital, which hosts a vibrant Family Medicine Residency program, along with other internships in various departments. Teamwork and whole person care hold great value in our learning and service at St. Anthony North Health Campus and 84th Avenue NHC. 

CPE Offered

St Anthony North Health Campus offers year-long CPE Residency positions (both full-time and part-time). We also offer CPE intern positions throughout the year.