About Us
Our team
Drs. Chris and Jody Sepich are spouses with over 35 years of experience practicing medicine. Jody is board certified in Internal Medicine where she was a hospitalist for three different hospitals including Greenville, NC; Louisville, KY; and Wilmington, NC before transitioning to outpatient medicine with Veteran Affairs. Chris trained in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. He continues to maintain his Internal Medicine Board certification. He was an outpatient doctor who also cared for his patients when hospitalized before becoming exclusively outpatient. Now, he devotes his time solely to Your HCPOA, LLC.
Our History
When counseling patients about the importance of Advanced Directives, which include Healthcare Power of Attorney in North Carolina, many patients asked if Chris would be their power of attorney. Given the complexity of ethics to be both Primary care physician and power of attorney, Chris began seeking legal guidance in 2018 in order to provide a solution for those patients. However, there were none. Chris recalled the problems he noticed over the years with our current “ask a family or friend” system. There were many times patient care was delayed due to no decision maker. Siblings were stressed and got into heated disagreements due to not ever discussing their loved one’s wishes. There were situations where obvious influences kept a patient’s wishes from being followed. Chris just didn’t think it was fair to ask loved ones, who often do not understand the gravity of a medical situation or the medical system, to make critical medical decisions. Rarely did loved ones talk about wishes or even know WHAT to talk about.
Thinking about how to minimize these points of failure, a business model was developed. Delayed by the events of life and the COVID-19 pandemic, it was not until June 2021 that Your HCPOA, LLC began.