Bridgedd, a Health Care Staff-Facing Community Resource Navigation Tool for an Urban Safety-Net Hospital: Cross-Sectional Formative Pilot Study.

Background: Health care professionals in safety-net settings often rely on lengthy and inconsistently maintained community health resource lists when connecting patients with services. Bridgedd is a health care staff-facing web application designed to generate geographically and categorically filtered community resources in a unique format that makes information about each resource more accessible. Objective: This formative pilot study aimed to characterize the perceptions of behavioral health professionals toward Bridgedd's usability, comparative value relative to existing community resource filtering and communication tools, and their intent to use it with patients if made available. Methods: We conducted a single-site, cross-sectional formative pilot of the web-based tool we developed, Bridgedd, within Grady Health System's Integrated Behavioral Health Program between April 23 and May 14, 2026. All 21 program team members attending an all-staff meeting received a presentation about Bridgedd and were given the opportunity to try the tool and ask questions. Then, they independently evaluated it using a self-generated hypothetical patient scenario. Eleven completed an investigator-developed anonymous feedback survey assessing perceived ease of use, comparative value relative to existing tools, intent to use the tool with patients, and open-ended feedback. Quantitative responses were summarized using raw counts, and open-ended responses were summarized as descriptive observations. A post hoc descriptive analysis excluded 2 potentially direction-confused response patterns. The post hoc descriptive analysis did not materially change the overall interpretation. Results: Eleven behavioral health professionals (therapists, n=4; licensed professional counselors, n=3; social workers, n=2; mental health counselor, n=1; certified peer specialist-mental health, n=1) completed the survey. Of the 11 respondents, 9 rated the tool as very easy to use, none reported technical problems, 8 agreed or strongly agreed that Bridgedd was better than the tools they currently use to help patients navigate community health resources, and 8 reported an intent to use the tool with patients if it were made available. In the open-ended responses, 7 of the 11 respondents suggested that nothing was missing or offered no additional suggestions for improvement, while the remaining 4 open-ended responses centered on expanding mental or behavioral health resources, providing additional county coverage, including more resources within each category, and building a mechanism for updating resource information. Conclusions: In this small, single-setting formative pilot study using hypothetical patient scenarios, participating behavioral health professionals generally reported favorable perceptions of Bridgedd's usability and potential utility. Further evaluation during routine clinical care is needed to assess actual use, workflow effects, patient experience, referral completion, and patient-level outcomes.