For clinicians
Griefassistancecare
for the grief your clinicians carry
Specialized grief care for clinicians supporting patients and families through loss and difficult outcomes.
The work moves quickly. Grief often needs more time.
A clinician may move from delivering a serious diagnosis to reassuring another family, back to back. There can be little time to process what has happened.
Between patients
Brief practices for pausing and grounding before the next encounter.
After a difficult shift
A conversation with a grief counselor about what the clinician is carrying.
Over weeks and months
A continuing relationship and peer support for grief that accumulates.
What care can include
Peer support with other clinicians
Facilitated groups, led by a grief counselor, where clinicians reflect with peers who also carry patients and families through loss.
A continuing counseling relationship
Clinicians return to the same grief counselor, without explaining their history again. Care makes room for the loss, the relationships, and what it meant to them.
Help with difficult conversations
Coaching on delivering painful news to patients and families, with room to reflect on what those conversations do to the clinician.
Grief education and practices
Live learning for the unit, team rituals for acknowledging a loss, and coaching for charge nurses and managers on the shift after one.
Grounded in clinical expertise
Our care model is shaped under the direction of Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, a leading researcher in traumatic grief and bereavement whose work has supported more than 10,000 grieving families around the world.
Top 2%
of scholars in her field
Fellow
of American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
Dr. Joanne Cacciatore
Clinical Advisor
A simple way to ask for care.
Clinicians can text to begin a conversation about the support they need. Care is usage-based: you only pay when a clinician uses it.
Private care. Clear boundaries.
You receive utilization and outcomes reporting by unit. Nothing said in care, and no clinical record, is ever shared.
Unattended grief is a retention problem, and a patient safety one
Patient loss follows clinicians off the unit and, left alone, out of the profession. It shows up in the next shift first.
$60,090
to replace one bedside nurse, and $5.2M a year for the average hospital
2.7×
the odds of a self-reported medical error among physicians with burnout
1 in 3
nurses in emergency, ICU, oncology, and pediatrics show high secondary traumatic stress
Sources: NSI National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report, 2026 · Meta-analysis of 13 studies, 20,643 physicians, 2022 · Multicenter study of 1,302 nurses in 14 hospitals
Bring grief care to your clinical team.
Let's talk about the losses your clinicians face, the support already in place, and what care could look like for your organization.
Start with one unit.
Questions we are often asked
Is this for nurses or physicians?
Both, and anyone in the room when it happens: residents, midwives, techs, social workers. If someone carries the loss, the care is for them.
How is this different from our peer-support program?
It sits alongside it. Peer programs are built for the incident; this is built for what accumulates. The counselor is a grief specialist, the relationship continues, and the groups are facilitated, so the weight doesn't fall on the peers.
How quickly can a unit start?
A pilot begins with one unit. We meet its leaders, set the cadence for groups and practices around its shift pattern, and care opens to clinicians from the first week.
I have more questions
We'd be glad to talk through your units, your questions, and whether a pilot makes sense for your system.
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