When a serious conversation is coming.
Useful before prognosis, code status, hospice, comfort-focused care, escalation, or family meeting decisions.
Goals of care
Prepare for the next serious care conversation.
BridgeCare helps families understand medical tradeoffs and prepare questions about prognosis, code status, hospice, comfort-focused care, escalation, and what choices are actually on the table.
Advisory preparation only. BridgeCare does not replace the treating clinicians or make urgent treatment decisions.
A question framework.
A critical care doctor helps the family understand the medical tradeoffs and prepare focused questions for the treating team.
No urgent decisions here.
BridgeCare is advisory preparation only. Urgent symptoms or same-day treatment decisions belong with the treating team or emergency services.
When this helps
Families are often asked to discuss code status, ventilators, feeding tubes, dialysis, hospice, comfort-focused care, or treatment limits before they feel ready. BridgeCare helps clarify the medical language and prepare questions for the treating team.
What gets reviewed
- Recent hospital or ICU course.
- Current active medical problems and likely decision points.
- Available prognosis language and family meeting notes.
- Advance directives, POLST/MOLST, or living will documents when relevant and securely provided.
What you get
- Plain-English explanation of the medical situation.
- Best-case, worst-case, most-likely question framework.
- Code status, hospice, and comfort-care question list.
- Advisory questions for what to clarify with the treating clinicians.