Your Impact

With assistance from donors like you, for over 25 years, Save A Heart has provided help and hope to patients and families of the U-M Congenital Heart Center.

Your contributions have advanced groundbreaking research and important innovations that continue to improve congenital heart care.

Funds from Save A Heart also support patients and families during stressful times, helping them with travel expenses, lodging, and other tangible needs

$25 could provide a teddy bear or another toy that brings comfort to a patient.
$50 could give a patient an electronic device that can help ease the long days in the hospital.
$100 can provide a much needed car seat for parents taking their child home from the hospital.
$200 would be used to purchase backpacks for patients with chest tubes, so that they will be more at ease when moving about.
$500 can cover the cost of neurodevelopmental evaluations when insurance does not.
$750 can supply a lab with test tubes, vials, pipettes and other resources needed to pursue groundbreaking congenital heart research.
$1,000 could cover materials used for one patient’s genetic analysis, helping our physicians and researchers develop individualized therapies.
$3,000 can support educational meetings for implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) patients and their families.
$5,000 can send five heart kids to summer camp.
$7,500 helps to support data analysis for research projects striving to improve outcomes and care.
$10,000 supports a Child and Family Life specialist who uses medical play therapy and education to help children prepare for procedures and surgeries.
$15,000 can help provide lodging at a hotel or Ronald McDonald House for up to five families.
$25,000 would fund drug discovery efforts that could uncover new and more effective medications for congenital heart patients.
$40,000 can support one patient during a single phase of a clinical trial that tests a new drug or device.

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