Third Annual ‘Remember With Love’ Children’s Memorial Ceremony at University Medical Center
October 08, 2009
The third annual ‘Remember With Love’ Children’s Memorial Ceremony will take place Sunday, Oct. 11, 2 to 5 p.m., DuVal Auditorium at University Medical Center.
“This special ceremony is for the families who have lost a child in the last year and families who have attended the ceremony in previous years,” says Claire Bianchi, LMSW, a pediatric social worker at UMC. “It helps with the grieving process for families to come together and remember their child.”
Pediatric intensivist Andreas Theodorou, MD, UMC chief of staff, will lead the ceremony, and speeches will be delivered by a parent and a caretaker. Families will be invited to the front of the auditorium to read their child’s name. A memorial tree will then be lighted in remembrance of those children. After the lighting ceremony, butterflies will be released.
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The University of Arizona, University Physicians Healthcare and University Medical Center work together to care for patients, educate medical students, train resident-physicians and conduct clinical and basic research. The UA Steele Children’s Research Center and UMC are working together to build Diamond Children’s Medical Center (www.diamondchildrens.org), now under construction and scheduled to open in 2010. Diamond Children's will be Arizona’s only pediatric inpatient medical center connected to an academic research facility – the Steele Center (www.steelecenter.arizona.edu).
CONTACT: Claire Bianchi: 694-7180; cbianchi@umcaz.edu