Personalized Healthcare Advocacy and Decision Support — Built Around You.
A Healthcare Power of Attorney (HCPOA) is a legal document that designates someone you trust to make medical decisions on your behalf if you are ever unable to speak for yourself. But a physician-directed HCPOA goes further. It places a doctor at the center of that process. There is no other healthcare advocacy service like Your HCPOA in North Carolina or across the nation.
The key difference from traditional HCPOAs is that you have someone who not only understands your personal values and healthcare wishes but also has the medical expertise to advocate for them effectively within the healthcare system. Think of it as having a knowledgeable, compassionate guide in your corner, long before you ever need one.
No Conflict of Interest. No Outside Influence.
Family members and close friends, even with the best intentions, can be subject to emotional pressure, grief, differing opinions, and outside influence when making critical medical decisions. Your HCPOA operates independently with one priority and one priority only: your wishes, your values, and your best interest.
When a physician serves as your HCPOA agent, every decision is made with clinical knowledge, medical ethics, and a clear understanding of treatment options that a family member or friend, however loving, simply cannot replicate. We speak the language of medicine fluently, understand the weight of each decision, and advocate with authority on your behalf.
What Personalized Healthcare Advocacy Means at Your HCPOA
Personalized advocacy begins long before a health crisis arrives. It starts with a thorough understanding of who you are, your health history, your treatment preferences, your values, and the life you want to protect. When we know you, we can represent you. Not a version of you based on a form filled out years ago.
What to Expect with Your HCPOA
Your HCPOA asks the questions most people never think to ask, so that when the moment arrives, we already have the answers.
Comprehensive Initial Conversation
Beyond A Checkbox
A Living Record
Making It Legal
Closing the Loop
Family Communication and Guidance During a Medical Crisis
A medical crisis is one of the most emotionally difficult experiences a family can face. They wished they had simply asked their loved one what they wanted, but now that opportunity is gone.
Without advance directives in place, such as living will or a Healthcare Power of Attorney (HCPOA), critical medical decisions may be left entirely in the hands of healthcare providers, family members, or maybe even a court judge, who may not fully understand your wishes.
Family members may disagree about what you want, since medical situations are rarely simple. Treatments may be delayed, given despite your preferences, or withheld in ways you never intended.
When Reality Doesn’t Match the Plan: Rethinking Your Healthcare Power of Attorney Choices
The medical realities of a future crisis may also look nothing like the scenarios you imagined when you first completed an HCPOA and named a family member or close friend to be Your HCPOA agent. When you lose the ability to speak for yourself, whether from a sudden accident, heavy sedation, dementia, or at the end of life, the decisions that follow will shape the quality and dignity of your care for the rest of your life. Are you still comfortable with the person you initially chose as Your HCPOA agent?
Key Questions to Ask Yourself When Choosing Your Healthcare Power of Attorney Agent
Would your designated agent be able to handle conflicting opinions between family members, friends, and medical personnel?
How comfortable would they be trying to do what’s right but simply not knowing what that is?
Even if they were fairly confident about a loved one’s wishes, would they spend time second guessing themselves?
Would they be willing to speak on your behalf and honor your wishes, setting aside their own personal views?
Will they be reliably available both long-term and immediately during a medical crisis?
Reducing the Burden on Family Members During Difficult Decisions
Asking a spouse, child, or sibling to make life-and-death medical decisions without guidance is an enormous and often unfair burden. Your HCPOA supports your loved ones through those moments, providing medical context, emotional steadiness, and clear direction rooted in your documented wishes. Families are free to focus on being present with you, rather than being paralyzed by uncertainty about what you would want.
The Your HCPOA Difference
Our physician-directed HCPOA service was created specifically to reduce the emotional strain on loved ones. We guide our clients through these difficult and ongoing in-depth conversations about illness, incapacity, and death that many families avoid or delay often because they believe there will always be more time, until a crisis proves otherwise.
Your HCPOA can clearly explain to families about their loved one’s condition and available treatment options during a medical crisis, while ensuring their care aligns with what they would have wanted. Founded and led by Dr. Chris Sepich, a physician with more than 15 years of experience in internal medicine, Your HCPOA brings clinical expertise to every decision. Fluent in medicalese, Your HCPOA works seamlessly alongside healthcare teams in emergency rooms, ICUs, nursing homes, and hospice settings to objectively advocate effectively on your behalf.
Your HCPOA bridges the gap by applying your known values and preferences to medical situations that couldn’t have been anticipated in advance. We provide our clients with peace of mind for themselves and their families.
Available 24/7 Because Medical Emergencies Don't Keep Business Hours
A medical emergency can happen at any moment. That's why our physician-directed Your HCPOA agent support is on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In a medical crisis, every second counts, especially when a patient is unable to communicate their wishes.
Our Healthcare Power of Attorney services are available around the clock to ensure your healthcare wishes are honored immediately, accurately, and with expert guidance.
When Seconds Matter, Preparation Is Everything
The absence of immediate, physician-directed support in a medical emergency can have profound consequences for patients and their families. Delays in treatment occur when no authorized decision-maker is readily available.
When adult children live out of state, critical decisions can't wait for a flight to be booked. And for solo agers without family nearby, healthcare decisions can fall to people who don't know you or your wishes.
Even if available, a devoted decision-maker, who is unfamiliar with the medical situation, isn’t always enough. Without medical fluency, even the most caring advocate can consent to procedures that conflict with a patient's true wishes not out of negligence, but simply out of uncertainty. Physician-directed Your HCPOA bridges that gap, combining medical expertise and advocacy to ensure the right decisions are made at the right time.
We Know Medicine. We Know What's at Stake.
Physician-directed Your HCPOA isn't just a legal advocate. We're a medical one. With over 15 years of experience across ERs, ICUs, hospitals, and nursing homes, we can step into any medical situation with confidence and clarity. We assess diagnoses, weigh treatment options, and identify immediately when your wishes are at risk.
Your HCPOA agent collaborates directly with your medical team in real time, no explanations needed. When fear and emotion make clear thinking nearly impossible, we provide the steady, objective guidance families need most.
Your Wishes, On Call and On File
Unlike traditional HCPOA services, physician-directed Your HCPOA goes beyond just capturing your healthcare power of attorney wishes. We file your legal document directly with your personal healthcare provider, ensuring it is on record, accessible, and ready to guide your care at a moment's notice.
This document also includes Your HCPOA's dedicated 800 number for immediate emergency contact. Your medical team always knows exactly who to call, so there is no confusion. Just immediate, expert advocacy the moment it is needed. Your HCPOA is already in place, already informed, and already in your corner no matter your family situation or zip code.
Annual Lifestyle and Values Assessment
Who you are and what matters most to you can change over time. As life evolves, your healthcare wishes may evolve as well.
That is why Your HCPOA meets with you every year to revisit and document your healthcare preferences, lifestyle values, and personal wishes. These conversations are unhurried and thoughtful, giving you the space to reflect on what quality of life means to you and to update your record accordingly.
If and when the time comes of a medical emergency, serious healthcare diagnosis, or terminal illness, Your HCPOA agent will have an accurate and current picture of exactly what you want.
Your Values are the Heart of Your HCPOA Plan
Defining What Matters Most to You
A key part of our Your HCPOA interview is exploring what you value most in your health mentally, physically, and spiritually. What are your goals of care not just in ideal circumstances, but in more difficult, real-world situations?
When Treatment and Values Meet
You may be asked to consider scenarios such as living with a health condition that causes daily suffering and then facing an additional medical complication. In those moments, decisions often shift from “What can be done?” to “What should be done?”
Just because medicine can do something, doesn’t mean we always should.
Questions We Explore Together
We guide you through other thoughtful questions like:
- How aggressive would you want your care to be?
- What does a meaningful quality of life look like to you?
- Are there conditions under which prolonging life would no longer feel aligned with your values?
These conversations are not about predicting every possible outcome, but about clearly understanding what matters most to you.
Continuity of Advocacy Across Specialists, Facilities, and Care Settings
Healthcare is rarely delivered in one place by one provider. As you move between specialists, hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, or home care settings, your physician-directed Your HCPOA agent travels with you.
We are available 24/7 for urgent situations and your legal Your HCPOA document is also given to your healthcare providers. You are also encouraged to share this information with your loved ones, so there are no surprises.
Your wishes, your values, and your voice remain consistent no matter where your care takes place or how many providers are involved. You are never lost in the system.
Planning for Your Daily Care Needs
During the Your HCPOA interview, we explore not only your medical wishes but also how you want to live if you need help with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). These include everyday tasks like eating, bathing, dressing, toileting, and transferring (moving from a bed to a chair or standing up) that are essential for daily self-care.
This isn’t just short-term care, like recovering for a few weeks after surgery, but ongoing support that may become more demanding over time. Living alone may no longer be the safest option for you.
To best address these situations, we ask you: Would you prefer to remain at home with in-home support, or would a nursing home or assisted living facility be more suitable?
Living Well on Your Own Terms
We also discuss your preferences for meals, personal care, mobility, and social interaction, helping Your HCPOA agent understand what makes life meaningful and comfortable for you. By clarifying these choices in advance, we can advocate for a care plan that aligns with your values, even in situations you haven’t anticipated.
Planning ahead ensures your independence, dignity, and quality of life are prioritized, so you can focus on living well, no matter what support you may need.
Beyond Life-Sustaining Treatment
Your HCPOA takes a deliberate and compassionate approach to asking the questions surrounding end-of-life care that are so often left unspoken. Our interview process gently guides clients through reflections on their wishes regarding life-sustaining treatment, resuscitation, artificial nutrition, palliative care, and the kind of comfort and dignity they wish to be afforded in their final days.
Patients often share their personal healthcare decisions with their doctors in the exam room. Now they can have this same trusted experience with our physician-directed Your HCPOA agent service. There is no judgment, only a commitment to objectively respect and advocate for your end-of-life choices.
Last Wish Assurance
By defining your goals of care in advance, Your HCPOA agent is better equipped to make decisions that reflect your values. We provide last wish assurance that even in complex or uncertain medical situations, your voice remains at the center of your care.
Peace of Mind at Every Stage of Life
Perhaps the most profound benefit of having a Your HCPOA agent is simply knowing that you are prepared. You do not have to wonder what would happen if you were suddenly unable to speak for yourself. You do not have to worry that your wishes will be overlooked or misunderstood.
That peace of mind is not just for you. It extends to everyone who loves you. It is one of the most generous gifts you can give to yourself and your family.
