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Mayo Clinic knows that support from families, friends, co-workers, neighbors or others is an important aspect of the healing process.
Because of this, we offer our patients access to CarePages.
CarePages is a free, easy-to-use, blog-like website to help patients share updates about their care before, during and after hospitalization. Many patients find that using CarePages is easier than making and receiving multiple phone calls.
The benefits of CarePages include:
- Reducing the stress of keeping in touch with everyone by posting information or updates once.
- Improving accuracy of patient information to family and friends. (There’s less of the “heard it from a friend, who heard it from a friend, who….”)
- Allowing patients/families to provide updates when it works best for them.
- Providing a place to share photos.
- Allowing family and friends to leave messages of encouragement, hope and strength for the patient.
- Notifying friends and family automatically when new updates are posted.
- Enabling visitors to read stories and connect with others in similar situations.
Security is an important reason CarePages was selected. CarePages is personal and private, and complies with all patient privacy regulations. Privacy controls enable patients to decide what information to share, what photos to post and who can view the page. The CarePage cannot be accessed unless an individual is invited to view the page. Once invited, that person will need to sign in with a user name and password and know the name of the patient’s page to access it. An added benefit is that CarePages has a guest book which enables patients to see who is visiting the page, the email address of the visitor and the number of times they visited the page.
Patients can access CarePages from any desktop computer with a connection to the Internet or through a wireless laptop with Internet access. Mayo Clinic offers free wireless access on campus for our patients and visitors.
If you have a family member receiving treatment at Mayo Clinic or if you and your family are expecting a baby, you are invited to create at CarePage. Step-by-step instructions are available here.
Here’s a testimonial from a CarePages user:
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This message is for michelle anderson and family we r praying for u guys just wanted u to know we are thinkin about u all. We would like to b invited on her page if possible we understand if not avalible. thoughts and prayers are with u. Love mike wiese and family
I’m not sure how to be invited and so I hope this message somehow gets to Uncle Paul Lampe and his family I grew up with and love dearly though I don’t communicate regularly with. ( I got your Holiday letters & cards Marta & Paula and have been remiss , delayed in returning any news) Dear Uncle Paul, during this painful process of life and death you are currently going through, I want to share with you my gratitude for your sharing with me (through my parents and family experiences together) your love, patience, humor, building expertise, knowledge and generosity. You were a good father figure and a good boss to my brother when he worked for/with you. I have many fun memories of fun times at the cottage! You and Aunt Mimi and my parents laughing and talking, sometimes arguing but working it out and respecting eachother’s boundaries, after all. Remember shaking me upside down when I was choking on that jawbreaker? All the kids were annoyed with me after you made the rule no more jaw breakers from the candystore!
After college and Marty quitting after some bad advise from Dad, we didn’t see or talk to each other much, but you will always have a place in my heart . Although we are not blood related, you and your family will be thought of forever as related to my family. I love you. I wish for you continued life, joy, energy, warmth and love woven through out this process of end of life( that, in some way or other, we all must pass through ) and to ease your pain and subsequent sorrow in feeling the imminent good byes. Fondly, and respectfully your “Bolthouse niece”, Abby Engstrand