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Partner with us to meet your advance care planning needs

Partner with us to meet your advance care planning needs

Support people in receiving the care that matters most to them

Partnering with us will help you to empower people and their families to make informed medical decisions, ensure their preferences are honored, and ease burdens on families and clinicians.

Whether at a health system, health plan, society, association, or community-based organization, we can provide the tools you need.

Licensing Options
Programs and Tools
Why Choose PREPARE

Benefits to Licensing

Licensing offers a cost-effective, time-saving solution that provides access to evidence-based advance care planning materials from the University of California, San Francisco, one of the most respected institutions in the country.

Fast-track your implementation

Lower development costs

Provide the highest-quality evidence-based tools

What Licensing Enables Your Organization To Do

Customize and integrate our advance care planning materials into your programs and technology platforms.

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Conduct research or quality improvement initiatives using our advance care planning materials.

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Advance Care Planning Programs and Tools

Our offerings include step-by-step advance care planning programs, easy-to-read advance directives, and tools for clinicians, allied health workers, and community members.

Interactive, online, step-by-step program that guides users through five essential steps for their own high-quality advance care planning: choose a decision maker, decide what matters most in life, ask medical providers the right questions, etc.

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Online, step-by-step caregiver program that helps caregivers start conversations with their family and friends and supports caregivers in making medical decisions for others.

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State-specific, legally compliant, easy-to-read advance directives in multiple languages - results in 98% engagement and increased documentation.

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Simple conversation guides, pamphlets, and Toolkits to initiate advance care planning discussions and to conduct group visits or community events.

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Why Choose Our Program

PREPARE is a leading multilingual, evidence-based advance care planning program, designed for individuals with limited health and digital literacy. The program offers legally compliant advance directives for US states and Washington, D.C.

Evidence-Based

Proven effective through multiple randomized trials

National

Includes state-specific advance directives for US states and Washington, D.C.

Multilingual

Advance directives are available in English and Spanish for all states. Also available in some states in Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Farsi, Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Russian, Somali, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and more.

Accessible

Designed to address limited health and digital literacy, and visual, hearing, and cognitive impairment.

Legally Compliant

Yearly review by UC Law San Francisco (formally UC Hastings) ensures compliance with state laws and regulations.

What People Are Saying

PREPARE is the gold standard of advance care planning.

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Susan Edgman-Levitan, Executive Director of Primary Care Innovations, Massachusetts General Hospital

After seeing examples on the website, deciding on my own wishes is a lot easier for me now.

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Patient, San Francisco General Hospital

These resources [through the PREPARE for THEIR Care program] are a lifesaver, no matter what stage of medical planning you are in.

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Caregiver

PREPARE is my #1 source for patient-centered online materials to help individuals with serious illness better communicate with their families and healthcare providers.

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Dr. Nathan Goldstein, Palliative Care Physician and Chair of the Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine

PREPARE breaks advance care planning down into doable actions, instead of walking into a fog of what it is all about.

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Patient, San Francisco General Hospital

I can see my 85-year-old mother using this program [PREPARE for YOUR Care] on her own.

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Caregiver

Patients come to their visits prepared, making advance care planning easier and more efficient.

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Primary Care Clinician, safety net setting

PREPARE is an outstanding resource for patients, families, and practitioners.

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Rebecca Kirch, Executive Vice President of Policy and Programs, National Patient Advocate Foundation

Using the PREPARE for YOUR Care questions as prompts for discussion helps patients tell me about their goals and values. I rely on PREPARE documents knowing they are reviewed yearly to remain in compliance with state laws.

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Dr. Daniel Pound, Medical Director, Center for Geriatric Care, University of California, San Francisco

Help keep PREPARE free to the public!

When you give to the UCSF PREPARE program, you empower people to have a voice in their medical care, ease decision-making burden on caregivers, and promote health equity.

Join us in making a difference!

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