Navajo Nation Funeral COVID-19 Guidelines Overview Funeral Guidance The following are guidelines in having a funeral service to honor the STANDARD FUNERAL During COVID-19 death of a loved one, who was a victim of COVID-19. All funeral activities State Of Emergency should be conducted to protect the health and wellbeing of attendees Adult/children ...... $2,500.00 and funeral home staff. TIME OF DEATH Children ...... $1,500.00 Contact your local funeral home, who Center for Disease Control Guidelines: should follow routine There is currently no known risk associated with being in the same room Still Born / Fetus Container ...... $100.00 infection prevention at a funeral or visitation service with the body of someone who died due when coming into NATIVE TRADITIONAL FUNERAL contact with a to COVID-19. People should consider not touching the body of someone decedent with confi rmed who has died of COVID-19. or suspected COVID-19. No Casket...... $1,000.00 Navajo Department of Health Guidelines: Public Health Emergency Order No. 2020-004 states that no more than CREMATION ...... $1,300.00 fi ve (5) people should attend the funeral service. Furthermore, Public FUNERAL HOME Health Emergency Order No. 2020-007 states that all individuals in the • Embalming Navajo Nation shall wear face masks in public, including funeral services. Navajo Family Assistance Program • Cremation Use precautions as List of Contracted Mortuaries any other decedent Navajo Nation Division of Community Development (DCD) with a contagious Guidelines: Alameda Mortuary Rollie Mortuary disease. Navajo Nation Chapters will continue to remain closed to the public. Albuquerque, NM Gallup, NM (505) 898-3160 (505) 863-4452 However, chapters can provide non-contact services via phone calls and email. Please contact your designated Chapter for further information and Compassion Mortuary Silver Creek Mortuary BURIAL concerns. Grants, NM Gallup, NM • Graveside service (866) 292-0086 (505) 371-3690 • Traditional/cultural Navajo Nation Land Department Guidelines: burial The Navajo Nation Homesite Lease Regulations states that all modern Cope Memorial Chapel Tse Bonito Mortuary Limit to 5 people or Gallup, NM Tse Bonito, NM less in a room at a burial sites and graves are prohibited within the homesite lease (505) 722-6671 (505) 371-5565 time, stay 6 ft apart, and premises. All burial sites should be in a community approved cemetery wear a face mask. (See Section 17.08-J, Resolution No. RCD-74-16). Fine and fees will be Cope Memorial Chapel Summit Funeral Home issued for illegal burials in open range locations. Kirtland, NM Saint Michaels, AZ (505) 598-9636 (928) 871-1120 POST BURIAL Navajo Nation Division of Social Services Guidelines: • Reception Daniel’s Family Funeral Valley Ridge Mortuary The Navajo Division of Social Services COVID-19 Burial Assistance assists • Washing/ Services Tuba City, AZ Cleansing Navajo families with the loss of a loved one due to COVID-19. The criteria Socorro, NM (928) 640-7677 • Tsin Bó’ósni’ for the COVID-19 Burial Assistance, the deceased must: (575) 835-1530 Binaach’il 1. Be a member of the Navajo Nation with an enrolled census number The listed mortuaries are in an Desert View Funeral agreement with DSS Navajo Financial Reception is not recommended. and; Assistance Services to provide burial Traditional practice should be Home services to individuals who qualify for 2. Expired from COVID-19, as verifi ed by the appropriate authority. Shiprock, NM Burial Assistance and reserve the right shortened to protect personal Applications for burial assistance are available at all contracted mortuaries. to decline requests for services. List of hygiene. Communal traditional (505) 368-4607 mortuaries are subject to change. medicine cups should be cleaned For more information regarding applications, call the Navajo Nation after each use or limited to one person Division of Social Services at (866) 347-2403. per cup.