Everything that we were used to before the pandemic has changed.
Before:
- A patient dies
- Their body is cleaned and sent to the morgue - or -
- Their body is washed and prepared for the funeral home to come and pick up the body
- The unit staff continues to work.
- The family makes funeral arrangement and the friends and family comes and pays their final respects to the deceased.
After:
- A patient dies from the Coronavirus.
- There is minimum contact with the body.
- The staff calls the family to let them know that the patient is deceased and asks for the name of a funeral home.
- The patient's body is moved to the morgue.
- The family quickly makes modified funeral arrangments, whether it's a church funeral, a graveside funeral, or cremation.
- There are very few friends and family to pay their respects for many reasons: health issues, afraid to travel by air, or other reasons.
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