Five gentle questions. A better conversation after loss.
Five questions help clinicians recognize grief after a reproductive loss, respond with compassion, and connect patients with support.
Gentle Questions. Informed Care.
Reproductive grief is prevalent, serious, and usually missed.
1 in 4
Pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage
25%
Meet the criteria for major depression three months after a miscarriage
25-30%
May experience prolonged, complicated grief after a reproductive loss
Reproductive loss is often treated as a non-event, and patients are rarely given permission to grieve. Left unspoken, that grief can become prolonged grief disorder. Most clinicians were never taught how to ask. RGCare5 gives you a way to ask and compassionately respond.
A screener built for the visit you already have.
Five questions
Answered by the patient before the visit, or privately in the exam room, on their own device or yours.
Guidance in the moment
Based on the pattern of answers, RGCare5 gives care guidance for that patient: address what the answers show, offer resources, and ensure follow-up. A guide, not a script.
After a loss, never before
RGCare5 is used after a reproductive loss of any kind, including miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion, ectopic pregnancy, neonatal loss and early infant death.
RGCare5 opens the conversation, acknowledges the loss, and surfaces the patterns that deserve a closer look. The Institute's research suggests that the screening and a brief conversation are themselves part of the care. You retain clinical judgment.
Four steps, one conversation.
1
Invite before the visit
A research informed message offers the screening ahead of the appointment. The patient can stop at any time.
2
Five questions, in private
The patient can stop at any time, and sees a brief, supportive message when they finish.
The conversation takes about two minutes. Certification teaches it.
3
Discuss, whatever the result
Answers, a concern level, and guidance for that pattern. Every patient gets the conversation.
4
Follow up on a schedule
Rescreen at the interval the care guidance sets for that level of concern, and track it in the platform.
Built for clinicians who see patients after a loss.
OB/GYN practices
The one-month follow up and the annual exam are already on your schedule. RGCare5 fits both.
Clinic and care settings
A structured, compassionate way to ask how someone is after a loss, in any setting
Primary care
Notice grief that has become complicated, however long ago the loss.
Mental health providers
A short, loss specific screener that fits intake and follow up, and grounds the treatment plan.
Certified in a single session.
RGCare5 is administered only by certified clinicians because the research shows the five questions do no harm, but the way they are administered can. Certification is a live 90-minute session led by the Institute's clinical educators, covering the research, how to administer the screener, compassionate communication, and practice in the conversation that follows.
Certification$395
90 minute live session
First sessions begin March 9, 2027
Early seats are limited
per clinician, paid once
From the Institute that has spent years on this question.
RGCare5 was developed by The Institute of Reproductive Grief Care through five phases of research with more than 1,500 women who have experienced reproductive loss.
The Institute trains clinicians across the country, publishes peer-reviewed research, and recognizes hospitals for compassionate care after loss.
Five
research phases
Peer-reviewed
published outcomes
Nationwide
clinician training
Designed to protect the patient in front of you.
RGCare5 is built to meet HIPAA requirements. Patient information is protected in transit and at rest, only the treating clinician sees an individual patient's answers, and only de-identified data is ever used for research.
Ask the question.
Be ready for the answer.
Certification fees and licenses fund the Institute's research and keep RGCare5 affordable for every practice that needs it.