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Grief and Bereavement Services

Grief and Bereavement Services at Eastern Health provides care for people who are experiencing loss or anticipated loss due to their death or the death of a loved one.

Our services provide individual and group support to people requiring grief and bereavement care through counselling, education sessions and information materials.

Grief and Bereavement Services collaborates with several departments and programs of Eastern Health and with community agencies, such as:

Palliative Care Services
Pastoral Care and Ethics
Janeway Family Centre
Mental Health and Addictions
Cancer Care
Long-Term Care Program
Community and supportive services which include medical clinics, senior's resource groups, private health care clinicians, faith groups, etc.

Specialty Services

Our office also offers focused grief and bereavement services in the following areas:

Children, youth and families
‘Shut-ins’ for people who have limited mobility or limited resources to be able to access Bereavement Services at one of the Eastern Health facilities.
Mental health and addictions
Individuals experiencing spirituality struggles
Perinatal bereavement (the bereavement felt by parents and families who have experienced the loss of newborn infants, or whose infants have not survived to full term)

Contact Information

Our office is located on the third floor of Southcott Hall at the Dr. Leonard A. Miller Centre.

Address:

Dr. Leonard A. Miller Centre

100 Forest Road

St. John’s, NL A1A 1E5

Telephone: 709-777-2167 or 709-777-8972

Fax: 709-777-1627