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Medical & Financial Assistance for Congenital Heart Defects

In the United States we are lucky to have the level of care available for the treatment and repair of congenital heart defects that we do. Elsewhere in the world adequate medical care is not always available and when it is it can be prohibitively expensive. Even in the U.S. the cost of congenital heart defect surgery can overwhelm a family and leave them in need of financial assistance. At CHF we often receive requests from families who are in desperate need of medical and/or financial help. Because the mission of The Children's Heart Foundation is to fund research, we cannot direct donations toward the care of children with congenital heart defects. However, there are many organizations that do provide such help. We have listed them below and hope that one of them will be able to aid you and your family.


NOTE: Inclusion on this list does not constitute an endorsement from CHF.

Air Care Alliance
The Air Care Alliance is a nationwide league of humanitarian flying organizations whose volunteer pilots are dedicated to community service.

The Brave Heart Foundation - Igniting Hope, Changing Lives
The Brave Heart Foundation's mission is to significantly improve the lives of children with congenital heart defects by providing resources and financial assistance to their families and clinicians.

Children's Angel Flight
The mission of Children's Angel Flight is to ensure that no needy child patient is denied access to distant specialized medical evaluation, diagnosis or treatment for lack of a means of long-distance medical air transportation.

Children's HeartLink - Healing Hearts Worldwide
Since 1969, Children's HeartLink has helped heal the hearts of children from 35 different countries, providing surgical treatment and supplies valued at more than $55 million.

Healing the Children
Healing the Children arranges for medical screening of the child, immigration documentation, transportation, host family support, donated medical care and return of the child to his or her country of origin.

HeartGift
The mission of HeartGift is to provide desperately needed heart surgery to underprivileged children with congenital heart defects around the world.

Heart to Heart International
Heart to Heart International is dedicated to helping children in the developing world who have congenital heart defects by bringing children who need surgical intervention to the U.S. for treatment. They accomplish this by utilizing a network of physicians and hospitals who donate their care and services.

International Hospital for Children - Life Saving for
Children, Life Lifting for you
Since 1999, IHC has provided thousands of children from Latin America and Eastern Caribbean with lifesaving and life-enhancing care.

Mercy Medical Airlift
Mercy Medical Airlift is dedicated to serving people in situations of compelling human need through the provision of charitable air transportation.

National Patient Travel Helpline
The National Patient Travel Helpline provides information about all forms of charitable, long-distance medical air transportation and provides referrals to all appropriate sources of help available in the national charitable medical air transportation network.

Project Open Hearts - Sharing Medical Technology to
Improve World Health
Project Open Hearts works with foreign medical staff to provide first-hand surgical training, assistance with diagnostic procedures and consultations, support for orphaned children and needy families, and on-going exchange of knowledge to continue the education process.

The Ryan Andrew Kaiser Memorial Foundation
The Ryan Andrew Kaiser Memorial Foundation is designed to financially assist families in Middletown New Jersey, provide grants for funding research and to build and maintain parks in Ryan's name.

Save a Child's Heart
Save a Child's Heart brings children with congenital heart defects from all corners of the world to Israel for surgery and other cardiac care

Shevet Achim
Shevet Achim brings Arab children with congenital heart defects to Israeli hospitals for lifesaving surgeries.

Spencer's Fund
Spencer's Fund is an assistance program that will help families affected by congenital heart defects with financial expenses incurred during extended or far from home clinic appointments and hospital stays. Spencer's Fund will provide groceries, meals, travel subsidies, lodging assistance, and utility payments to families in need.

Stronghearts
Stronghearts provides support for families dealing with congenital heart defects, whether through donations for research, education or financial support.

 

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