Connecting Family and Friends When Health Matters Most
Archived Media Coverage
December 26, 2008
Twin Cities Live
CaringBridge Interview with Sona Mehring
CaringBridge is a social networking website for those suffering from an illness; it connects the sick to friends and family who are eager for updates.
December 10, 2008
Newsweek
Fighting On Two Fronts
When military families, already strained by long war-zone deployments, get hit with a devastating illness at home.
November 25, 2008
SilverPlanet.com
CaringBridge Lends Support to Caregivers
Caregivers are tasked with the toughest of jobs: balancing the stress of tending to a sick loved one with the emotional drain of answering questions from those concerned.
October 14, 2008
Las Vegas Review Journal
ONLINE GUY: CaringBridge helps families stand together in face of crisis
I hope you never have to use the Web site I’m featuring today, but chances are, you will. So clip this for the right time, or add the site to your bookmarks.
October 10, 2008
NBC-TV | PC Mike
Social networking for sick people
It’s called CaringBridge and it is a deeply personal and yet inspirational resource designed for patients and their relatives to keep loved ones informed during difficult times.
October 3, 2008
AppScout
CaringBridge: Connection, Love, and Support When You Need It Most
Getting support and communicating with loved ones is an important part of the healing process, but it’s not always simple. This is why Gary and Mari Linfoot used CaringBridge to set up a Web site dedicated to their ordeal, to reach out to friends and family.
October 1, 2008
WHAS 11 in Louisville, KY
Race for the Cure: CaringBridge.Org, Online Cancer Support
Ask anyone with breast cancer, and they will tell you one of the most important things to keep them going is support from friends and family, even strangers.
July 18, 2008
Stars and Stripes
Loved ones track healing through Web site
A social networking site created a decade ago by a Minnesota woman helping a friend work through a crisis pregnancy has become a vehicle for wounded U.S. troops trying to stay connected with family and friends as they struggle to recover from war injuries.
Used with permission from Stars and Stripes.
© 2008 Stars and Stripes.
June 1, 2008
Women and Cancer Magazine
Personal Web sites unite patients, friends, and family to share news, celebrations, comfort, and hope.
The popular adage that there is strength in numbers is never more evident than when a community of family and friends rallies around a loved one at the time of a health crisis or accident.
May 1, 2008
Delta Sky Magazine
Technology With a Heart
At a time when the Internet is making headlines for a lot of the wrong reasons, CaringBridge stands out as an innovative, shining example of how the technology can be put to good use.
March 5, 2008
Wahpeton Daily News
St. Francis offers patient support through Web site
"... Trisha Nordick has a CaringBridge page dedicated to her daughter, London, who was diagnosed with a rare fetal abnormality in 2006. Trisha said the best part was updating friends and family without having to make so many phone calls."
March 4, 2008
ABC News
Caring Connection with CaringBridge
"The purpose is to keep family and loved ones informed when someone is facing a serious health condition. This network has grown to more than 20 million people ..."
February 17, 2008
TimesUnion.com
Tech support: Web site lifts a burden for patients' families by keeping loved ones informed
Sixteen-year-old Joe Watroba of Rotterdam just wants to be discharged from the hospital after completing one of his early rounds of chemotherapy for the cancer in his leg, especially since he knows he'll have to return for a spinal tap.
February 11, 2008
MSNBC.com
Coping with a health crisis, one click at a time
Brad Coulter and his daughters, Brandi and Brianna, suffered back injuries in the collapse of the I–35 bridge in Minnesota.
February 5, 2008
TheStar.com | Toronto Star
Grief and comfort connect online
The website went up the first day Bradley Campbell got chemotherapy.
His family’s phone had been ringing 60 times a day ...
January 9, 2008
America's News Today
DoD: America Supports You: Site Bridges Gap Between Troops, Families
“When someone is injured or wounded, everyone wants to know what’s happening -- family, friends, neighbors, fellow servicemen and women, the list goes on, ... ”
January 5, 2008
Yahoo! Sports
LSU's Black proves kindness goes a long way
While surfing the Internet Dec. 16, Ciron Black received an email containing a link to CaringBridge.org. He logged on the site and read the story of Michael “Mikey” Conger, an intense LSU fan who is battling cancer–related complications at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.
December 15, 2007
Green Valley News & Sun
EVERY DAY’S A BLESSING: GV couple near anniversary of miracle transplant
Peg Dosch will soon celebrate the anniversary of her second chance at life.
The Green Valley woman is a liver transplant survivor and on Dec. 22, 2004, she was given a second opportunity to live when a close friend donated part of her liver to save her life.
November 16, 2007
WGNTV.com
Chicago's Very Own: CaringBridge
A local family who has a sick baby undergoing brain cancer treatments is utilizing a free website to keep loved ones up to date, every day, on how the little girl is doing.
November 12, 2007
Canada Free Press
A Family’s Rock–solid Faith in God
Not a day goes by that I don’t pray for 14–year–old Christian Barker. Eighteen months ago Christian was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia that is unresponsive to chemotherapy.
November 1, 2007
Spirituality & Health
Create a CaringBridge during Health Crises
When someone you love is too sick or too exhausted to pick up a phone, let alone form coherent sentences, here's how to help.
October 24, 2007
The Patient Report.com
Free, Secure Personalized Websites For Seriously Ill Patients, Families And Friends
When someone is seeking an elusive diagnosis or undergoing major treatment, that patient benefits enormously from the support of friends and family. Staying current and connected is no easy task at a time like this.
October 23, 2007
blogs.tech-recipes.com
CaringBridge.org provides support during illness, treatment and recovery.
My mom showed me a great website today that has helped her keep appraised of the treatment of two people very dear to her. CaringBridge.org provides a free, easy-to-use service that allows users to maintain a journal, similar to a blog, and to receive messages of support from family and friends.
October 21, 2007
TCPalm
Online service helps loved ones stay informed on treatments
"I was so impressed by the fact that extended family and friends could keep in contact and send messages," McCluskey said. "So I had to find out more about it."
October 16, 2007
Arkansas Democrat–Gazette
Staying “ill” informed
CaringBridge’s free Web sites are a lifeline for people dealing with health crises. People like Laura Newman of Little Rock, who was diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma— breast cancer—in April 2006.
September 19, 2007
Hallmark Channel: New Morning Show
Interview with CaringBridge Founder, Sona Mehring
When a friend or family member has a serious illness, it’s sometimes hard to let everyone know their daily progress. Our next guest found a solution. She created the web site, CaringBridge.org, a place where families & friends can keep in touch with loved ones going through a health crises.
September 1, 2007
Better Homes and Gardens
A Caring Connection
A soldier injured in battle, a child undergoing treatment for a disease, an elderly parent’s hip replacement. These sorts of trials separate us from our friends and family at a time we most need them. And staying connected can be difficult. “It drains people answering the same questions over and over—reliving the pain each time. Families just run out of time and energy,” ...
August 21, 2007
KVAL CBS 13
Patients log on to stay connected
“She said, I’m sure it’s nothing, I’m really sure but let’s do a routine blood panel and see what we come up with and 3 hours later we had a diagnosis of leukemia,’ says Sarah’s mom Jodi.
August 11, 2007
Savage Pacer
Coulter family begins road to recovery
“We are lucky to be alive. As I sit here looking at pictures and trying to digest the last week, I can only sit in awe. It is amazing how four seconds can change the course of your life.”
June 19, 2007
Minnesota Public Radio
Web site marks a decade of connecting patients and families
In 1997 Sona Mehring’s close friends were midway through their pregnancy, when a sudden health problem sent them rushing to the hospital. During those first confused hours, Mehring felt helpless.
June 16, 2007
JS Online, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Site links loved ones with medical patients
With his sister-in-law in critical condition after an April motorcycle crash in Muskego, Steve Whittow realized watching a loved one battle for life also brings communication difficulties.
June 7, 2007
New Richmond News
CaringBridge marks 10 years of connections
“It’s been 10 years and the pain never really goes away.” Darrin Hardegger, Somerset resident, spoke of losing his infant daughter, Brighid.
June 6, 2007
phillyBurbs.com
Help a soldier, any soldier
“Two excellent organizations are Help Hospitalized Veterans, HHV.org, which provides craft kits and gift cards to wounded veterans, and the Web site caringbridge.org, which allows wounded veterans to stay in contact with friends, family and others ...”
June 1, 2007
Linux.com
Consultant uses OSS to build CaringBridge for the sick
Ten years ago, IT consultant Sona Mehring had a friend who was going through a difficult pregnancy. Mehring wanted to help in some way, so she created a Web site where her friend could post updates throughout the pregnancy and the subsequent premature birth ...
May 16, 2007
SignOnSanDiego.com
Site lets users share news in trying times
On Dec. 12, Liz logged on to CaringBridge and started documenting her family's life during Claire’s chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Each journal entry ended with, “God Bless & Believe!”
April 10, 2007
ToledoBlade.com
Anthony Wayne graduate wounded in Iraq making Florida recovery
With his wife there to scroll down the screen for him, Sergeant Keil was able to read greetings sent to him from family and friends in northwest Ohio, where he graduated from Anthony Wayne High School ...
April 9, 2007
Newsweek
My Life with Cancer
“One Web resource, however, was indispensable. My sister set up an account with a nonprofit site called caringbridge.org that brought order and even pleasure to my communication with the outside world ...”
April 6, 2007
NBC Nightly News: “Making a Difference”
During illness, a bridge to family and friends
Katie Pagano of Torrington, Conn., is three-and-a-half years old. She had leukemia.
“That's what got me through every single day,” Lori says. “To know that all these people were praying for her and cared about her.”
March/April, 2007
Assisted Living Consult
Strengthening Resident Social Support Systems
Assisted living (AL) facility medical teams know how vital social support systems are for a patient’s recovery—particularly for newly admitted patients coming from long-term hospital stays.
March 12, 2007
Nurse.com
CaringBridge Keeps Loved Ones Well-Connected
Assisted living (AL) facility medical teams know how vital social support systems are for a patient’s recovery—particularly for newly admitted patients coming from long-term hospital stays.
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