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North Country Hospital and Health Center - Crisis Response & Bereavement Team
North Country Hospital’s Crisis Response & Bereavement Team (CRBT) includes volunteers from different departments who provide support to patients’ families and friends during times of unexpected loss of a loved one or when a crisis has occurred. Services range from helping with phone calls or getting food to just sitting with family and friends while they wait. The volunteer also follows up by calling the family two weeks after the incident and again three months later.
What is it?
North Country Hospital’s Crisis Response & Bereavement Team (CRBT) includes volunteers from different departments who provide support to patients’ families and friends during times of unexpected loss of a loved one or when a crisis has occurred. Services range from helping with phone calls or getting food to just sitting with family and friends while they wait. The volunteer also follows up by calling the family two weeks after the incident and again three months later.
Who is it for?
Family members or friends of victims of accidents or sudden death.
Why do they do it?
It is very hard to experience the loss of a loved one, perhaps especially when death is sudden or the victim is very young. It is comforting to know that there are volunteers available when crisis or sudden death occurs.
Impact
More than 200 families have been assisted by this team since its beginning in fall 2003.
Contact: Rhonda Howard, RN
Education Department
Telephone: 802-334-7331, ext. 359
E-mail: rhoward@nchsi.org
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