$1 provides a minute of congenital heart disease research.
$3 provides an educational book for a newly diagnosed patient or patient's family with congenital heart disease.
Within the past five years, the Children's Heart Foundation has
funded $2.4 MM of Congenital Heart Disease research.
Several of the Children's Heart Foundation’s funded studies have
progressed to get further funding from the National Institutes of Health.
The Children's Heart Foundation has distributed 33,000 copies ofIt's
My Heart, a patient resource book on the diagnoses and treatments
of Congenital Heart Disease.
The Children's Heart Foundation is a founding organization of the
Congenital Heart Public Health Consortium, the only public health alliance
committed to the care and well-being of Congenital Heart Disease patients and
the prevention of Congenital Heart Disease.
The Children's Heart Foundation partnered with the Adult
Congenital Heart Association to introduce and pass the Congenital Heart Futures
Act, unprecedented national legislation, which mandates increased research
funding of congenital heart disease, the creation of a national patient
registry, and increased congenital heart disease education.