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Communicate with Family and Friends through a Free Personalized Patient Website

The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital has teamed up with CaringBridge.org to offer patients and their families a free and simple way to communicate with family and friends during hospitalization, treatment and recovery.

CaringBridge is a no-cost, 501(c)(3) nonprofit health platform that surrounds family caregivers with support while they care for a loved one on a health journey. A donor-supported nonprofit founded in 1997, the organization offers tools to share and document a health journey, simplify care coordination and connect caregivers with a supportive community.

Patients can create a secure, personalized CaringBridge website that includes the following:

  • A patient care journal to update family and friends
  • A guestbook where visitors can post messages
  • A photo gallery with slide show functionality
  • Mobile access: View and update a CaringBridge site using an Android phone, iPhone or another Web-enabled smartphone. Friends and family members can also sign up to receive text message journal notifications to their phone.
  • Facebook Connect: Log in with your Facebook account, add a link to your Facebook page from your CaringBridge site or post journal notifications to Facebook. You decide if you want to link the two accounts.
  • Free online support

Disclaimer: At no time does the University of Chicago Medicine provide any patient information for the purposes of this service.