The nonprofit behind RGCare5.
RGCare5 was created by a nonprofit institute that has spent years helping healthcare professionals recognize and respond to grief after reproductive loss.
Addressing the often overlooked grief of reproductive loss, including miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth, early infant death, adoption, and infertility.
The Institute gives healthcare professionals evidence-based education and resources so they can deliver compassionate grief care that reduces emotional trauma and improves maternal mental health, and conducts collaborative research with diverse populations.
MISSION
A future where evidence-based programs are broadly adopted by the healthcare community, fostering a healthier future for all experiencing reproductive loss.
VISION
VALUES
What the Institute does.
Trains clinicians
Across the country, in compassionate care after reproductive loss.
Recognizes hospitals
Through the Compassionate Care Designation.
Publishes research
Peer-reviewed research on care after loss.
Convenes the field
An annual symposium for professionals working in reproductive loss.
From silence to a standard of care.
For years the Institute taught clinicians how to respond to reproductive grief. What was missing was a brief, reliable way to ask.
RGCare5 is the Institute's answer: five gentle questions, a certified clinician, and guidance in the moment, so that recognizing grief after loss becomes part of ordinary care.
A track record, not a promise.
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Care domains improved
A peer-reviewed study of the Institute's emergency department program in two large urban EDs found statistically significant gains in every domain measured, from emotional support to discharge planning. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 2026.
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Published RGCare5 studies
Four published RGCare5 studies across three research phases, with Phase 4 under review and Phase 5 calibration underway.
2 tiers
Compassionate Care Designation
Hospitals that implement best practices, educate multidisciplinary staff and measure patient experience earn the Institute's designation, or the designation with distinction.
LEADERSHIP
Michaelene Fredenburg, LHD hc
President and CEO
A global authority on care after reproductive loss, author of several books and contributor to peer reviewed research, with more than 25 years of nonprofit leadership, service as an Assistant Clinical Professor at Creighton University School of Medicine, and a Community Scholar role with the Indiana University Indianapolis Health Communication Program. She leads the research and development of RGCare5 and was named San Diego Magazine's Pioneer of the Year for her work in maternal mental health.
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Our commitments.
Privacy by design
Built to meet HIPAA requirements; only de-identified data is used for research.
Published research
Research that is published, not just claimed.
Fees fund the next study
Fees that fund the next study.
Learn more about the Institute at reproductivegrief.org.