Spiritual care is recognition of the role of patients’ religion and/or spirituality in illness and attention to religious/spiritual concerns as part of medical care. Spiritual care is an integral component of palliative care1supported by data among patients with advanced illness demonstrating: 1) the importance of religion/spirituality in the illness experience, including its central role in preserving patient quality of life (QOL); 2) frequent religious/spiritual concerns among these patients; and 3) patients’ expressed wishes for spiritual care as part of their medical care.