Martin Memorial Teams Up with CaringBridge
to Help Patients, Family and Friends Stay Connected

Martin Memorial is pleased to announce its partnership with CaringBridge, a free, not-for-profit, easy-to-use Internet service developed to keep friends and family informed during important life events, including medical treatment, childbirth, rehabilitation, adoption, and end-of-life care.

By visiting the CaringBridge Web site, patients and their families can easily create a secure CaringBridge Web site and sign-in at any time to post journal entries and photographs for their circle of family and friends. The service allows the family to easily update everyone and still be able to focus their energies on the loved one who requires healing. Visitors provided with the personal Web site address and password can read updates and post their messages of support and encouragement to the family.

More than 70,000 CaringBridge sites have been created since 1997. There have been more than 450 million visits to those personal sites, and 11 million guestbook entries written. Up to 1,200 new sites are being created each month and approximately 70 percent of the web pages are created for sick or injured children and newborns.

History of CaringBridge

The inspiration for CaringBridge came from a real life experience. When Sona Mehring’s friend developed a life-threatening condition and prematurely delivered her baby during the 24th week of pregnancy, Sona created a Web site to keep family and friends connected and informed. Although baby Brighid later died, she inspired a remarkable grassroots phenomenon that continues to extend love, encouragement, and hope around the world.

Create a personalized CaringBridge Web site.

For CaringBridge customer service, call (651) 789-2300.