MGF Hospital Support
GRACE Crisis Care Team
GRACE Care Basket Program
MGF Community Education Courses
Healthcare Continuing Education Courses
Educational DVDs


MGF Hospital Support

The following GRACE Care Basket and Crisis Care Team programs are available for parents during their hospital stay, before delivery, and after the birth of a baby who will not survive or who will be stillborn.

The GRACE Crisis Care Team currently serves throughout the twin cities and surrounding areas in Minnesota. This program is expanding and can be implemented in your state! Please contact Missing GRACE if you are interested to have the GRACE Care Basket Program and GRACE Crisis Care Team Services at your hospital.

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The GRACE Crisis Care Team
This Team is comprised of Missing GRACE trained volunteers and volunteers recruited and trained through the hospital and Missing GRACE Foundation. The Crisis Care Team is on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week serving to provide support, education, resources and photography services to patients and their families at the time surrounding a perinatal loss at the hospital.

*GRACE Care Basket & GRACE Care Tote Program
*Emotional care and support during labor and after baby is born
*GRACE Gowns & Hats made to fit babies 1lb to term
**A Making Memories Photo and Video Session for baby and family
**A Memorial Video and picture montage compilation on DVD
*Funeral service planning
*Referrals to low cost burial and cremation providers
*Grief support with follow-up calls and home visits
*Referrals to conventional and alternative medical providers


**Professional quality photo and video memorials are captured and created in a loving, respectful and sensitive manner for families during their window of time spent with their precious babies who will not survive or who have been stillborn. Service is free of charge and parents receive a CD of all their images and DVD with a Memorial Video Montage that combines live video and pictures set to beautiful commemorative music.








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GRACE Care Basket Program

 
 

GRACE Care Baskets...Providing Comfort When it is Needed Most.

GRACE Care Baskets can be ordered by friends or family on behalf of the parents who have just experienced a pregnancy or infant loss.  A Missing GRACE representative will hand deliver a basket if the Basket order is within the Minnesota Twin Cities Metro Area.  The GRACE Care Basket or GRACE Totes not being hand delivered are shipped priority overnight or delivered by currier service.  It is important that baskets are received by the parents while still in the hospital with the baby whenever possible.  The resources are still of great value and help however, if parents are receiving the basket after giving the baby up to the hospital or after they have gone home.  The last 2 items are not included if the parents will receive it after the baby is no longer with them.

Large GRACE Care Baskets (for 20 weeks to full term babies) contains:

Small GRACE Care Baskets (prior to 20 weeks including miscarriage or ectopic pregnancies) contains: 


 Large GRACE Care Basket or Tote:  $65.00
 Small GRACE Care Basket or Tote:  $35.00
 *Large GRACE Care Basket or Tote (for parents who are home from the hospital):  $40.00
(*These Baskets/Totes do not contain the Hand/foot molding kits or the Disposable Camera.)

*The GRACE Care Totes contain all the same items as what comes in a Basket, however the shipping costs are significantly less expensive.

Shipping and handling are not included in the above prices.
Online ordering will be available soon!

**Please Contact Candy at 763-497-0709 to order**

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MGF Community Education
Classes are held at the hospital and are a service for current and prospective patients within the community surrounding the hospital.

* Protecting Your Pregnancy (addresses: prenatal care, kick counting/ baby’s movement, NSTs, ultrasounds, high risk issues, signs of labor)
* Surviving the Pregnancy that Follows a Loss (addresses: grieving while pregnant, anxiety, fears and passing through important markers on the calendar)

Classes include a Power Point presentation, handouts, video and site tour with a hospital staff person to Labor and Delivery/ Birthing Place within the hospital.

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Healthcare Continuing Education Courses
Missing GRACE Foundation provides Accredited Continuing Education Courses at the GRACE Conferences, GRACE Seminars as well as educational presentations provided on-location at hospitals and clinics.


Continuing Education courses and presentations include: (Click here for Speaker Presentation Information and Request Form)

* Monitoring and managing pregnancies to reduce stillbirth and poor outcomes
* Best practices for care of families experiencing a perinatal loss
* Insight about what is helpful and hurtful for bereaved parents
* Creating Memories with Photo and Video at the time of a perinatal loss
* The important role of cultural heritage and religion in times of death and mourning
* Preventing burnout and compassion fatigue for the caregiver
* Reducing risk of litigation through creating a comprehensive and cohesive hospital to home plan of care

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Educational DVDs



* Umbilical Cord Accident Presentation
* Explanation of cord and placenta insertion using ultrasound
* Interviews with Pregnancy Institute's Research Team
* Introduction to home fetal heart-rate monitoring
* Testimonials of couples using home-monitoring program

To view and order DVDs, please click here.

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