Hartford HealthCare at Home Hospice offers bereavement groups

Hartford HealthCare at Home Hospice Care is offering two free monthly bereavement support groups at five locations in December:Glastonbury – First and third Wednesdays of the month (Dec. 6 and 20, ), 2 to 3:30 p.m., Riverfront Community Center, 300 Welles St., with facilitator Bill Pilkington, supervisor for pastoral and bereavement services.

Hartford – Second and fourth Mondays of the month (Dec. 11 only), 1 to 2:15 p.m., Hartford Hospital, 85 Jefferson St., Room 116, with facilitator Andrea Burr, pastoral counselor.

Mansfield – First and third Thursdays of the month (Dec. 7 and 21), 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Mansfield Center, 34 Ledgebrook Drive, with facilitator Ivan Bilyk, pastoral counselor supervisor.

Meriden – Second and fourth Tuesdays of the month (Dec. 12 only), 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., MidState Medical Center, 435 Lewis Ave., with Doreen Bottone, MidState chaplain.

Norwich – Second and fourth Wednesdays of the month (Dec. 13 and 27), 2 to 3:30 p.m., William W. Backus Hospital, 326 Washington St., with Thomas Flynn, SC, pastoral counselor.

For more information, call 855.HHC.HERE/ 855.442.4373.