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Lori Remley, RNC
Perinatal Bereavement Coordinator, Maternal Child Health, Mercy Gilbert Medical Center - Family Support & Hospital Partnerships/Education
I have been a Registered Nurse since 1998 serving in the labor and delivery department since 2000. After years of serving bereaved parents and caring for their precious babies, I was ‘accidentally’ given the position of Perinatal Bereavement Coordinator at Mercy Gilbert Medical Center in 2012. I believe that God does not call the qualified, he qualifies the called. In 2016, He created the path for me to help found Heaven’s Hummingbirds...a place I had hoped for, a place for bereaved parents to connect with other bereaved parents. This was inspired by guidance from New Song, whom I met again by ‘accident.’ With much teamwork, the first Perinatal Loss Support Group in Dignity East Valley took place March of 2017 and has continued to grow and provide empathy since.
I am originally from Washington State, but in 1994 my husband, Dennis, and I moved to Arizona where I went to Mesa Community College for my nursing degree while raising two boys, Quentin and Zackary. I obtained my RTS training and certification in 2012. I became certified through New Song as a support group facilitator in 2016. My heart is with the grieving parents and helping them in any way possible.
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Vicki Vanden Heuvel, BSN, RNC-MNN
Perinatal Bereavement Support, Maternal Child Health, Chandler Regional Medical Center- Family Support & Hospital Partnership/Education
As the Coordinator of the Perinatal Bereavement program at Chandler Regional Medical Center since 2002, I feel so blessed that I have been the chosen one to embrace and carry many families through some of the most difficult days that they will ever experience, the loss of a child. I am deeply honored to hold this very sacred position of helping heal the truly broken-hearted family and to gently guide them to wholeness. Each of these special, sacred little lives, though short, matter and I will continue to sing these little ones’ song until the day I am called home.
I received my BSN degree in Nursing in 1980 from Marian College of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. I became Certified as Bereavement Coordinator through RTS Bereavement Services, Inc. in 2000. I have been married to my husband Dean since 1980, and am fortunate to have three wonderful adult children, Kate, Matt, Sam and new grandma of baby Lia.
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