Marzena Przeszlo, a staff chaplain in pastoral care services at the University of Illinois Hospital leads daily music and prayer for healthcare workers and patients at the hospital. After years comforting patients, like many chaplains, she has found herself increasingly supporting exhausted and struggling staff during the pandemic, from dispensing communion to, on a recent weekday morning, strumming a rendition of Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love” as nurses sang along and her Toms shoes tapped the hospital floor.
