Entering Deceased Information

Use the Deceased area of the Bereavement Management window to enter information about the person for whom the bereaved party is grieving the loss.

Enterprise Edition automatically populates all the deceased information except the Create Plan check box when you change the caregiver's status to bereaved upon the patient's discharge to death.

● First Name

● Last Name

● Date of Birth

● Death Date

● Sex

● Marital Status

● Religion

● Relationship

● Bereavement Plan

● Level of Care

● Create Plan

You may want to add bereavement actions for people that are not patients of the agency. This occurs when counseling is provided to a family member of a bereaved party that was not a patient of the agency.

● First Name

● Last Name

● Office

● Notes

4. Click the Primary Caregiver check box to select it, if the bereaved party was the primary caregiver.

Once you set up the bereaved, you must enter the address, phone, and demographic information. Because the bereaved deceased is not a patient, this information cannot flow from a patient record.

To enter the Bereaved Deceased information from Bereavement | Bereaved | Deceased:

1. Enter the First Name.

2. Enter the Last Name.

3. Enter the Date of Birth.

4. Enter the Death Date.

5. Click the arrow beside the Sex field and select from the list.

6. Click the arrow beside the Marital Status field and select from the list.

7. Click the arrow beside the Religion field and select from the list.

8. Click the arrow beside the Relationship field and select from the list.

9. Click the arrow beside the Bereavement Plan field and select from the list.

10. Click the arrow beside the Level of Care field and select from the list.

After you enter all the information, and select a bereavement plan and level of care, the Communications plan associated with the bereavement displays in the Bereavement Management window.