Harbor:Deceased patients

Family Viewing of Deceased Patients

If you have a death in the ED, please don't direct family to the morgue and don't promise body viewing. If the death is potentially a coroner's case, with an unclear cause of death or concerns for possible criminal activity (violence, hit and run, etc.), the family may not be allowed near the body for concerns of evidentiary integrity. For any death that we will be disclosing to the family, the ED social worker should be present to handle the details of discussing body and funeral preparations with the family.

Family Bereavement Resources

How to access the bereavement packet if needed.

• Go to home page for Harbor/UCLA and click on Departments/Site pages
• Once the page comes up, look in the second column for Patient Education
• Click on Patient Education
• Once the page comes up, look for Patient Handouts
• Click on Patient Handouts
• Once page comes up, scroll down to Bereavement packet; it is available in English, Spanish, and Korean.

Coroners' case

• Harbor Death_Packet_Checklist.pdf
• Harbor policy
• LA County Coroner's Hospital Info Page

See Also

• Harbor:Main