Baptist Memorial Health Care plans to open two new grief centers – one in Midtown Memphis and the other in Jonesboro, Arkansas, where Baptist has one of its 17 hospitals, NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital. 
Baptist opened its first grief center, the Kemmons Wilson Family Center for Good Grief, in 2005. It plans to open a Midtown location, the Kemmons Wilson Family Center for Good Grief, Milla’s House, this summer on the grounds of Idlewild Presbyterian Church.

Plans are to open the NEA Center in October and will offer free grief counseling and seminars.

The model of care at both grief centers will mirror the services and programs available at Baptist’s original Grief Center, which, according to Baptist leadership, has grown exponentially under the leadership of executive director of bereavement Angela Hamblen Kelly.