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21 Pictures to Bring You Inside a Children’s Heart Care Training at National Heart Foundation in Bangladesh

Published August 1, 2023 National Heart Foundation Hospital and Research Institute (NHF) welcomed Children’s HeartLink medical volunteers to Dhaka, Bangladesh in May 2023. This training visit included a pediatric cardiologist and pediatric heart surgeon from Leeds Children’s Hospital in the U.K. During the four-day training visit, the teams had fruitful discussions on complex cases that … Continued

Children’s HeartLink Advocates for Congenital Heart Disease Patients at the United Nations

Published July 25, 2023 Children’s HeartLink fights to ensure that access to pediatric cardiac care is considered a global health priority by institutions like the United Nations and the World Health Organization Historically, specialty health care services, including surgeries needed to treat congenital heart disease, have not been included as essential health care in global … Continued

Success in Vietnam: Nhi Dong 1 Named Children’s HeartLink Center of Excellence

Published July 18, 2023 We are honored to announce our partner hospital Nhi Dong 1 in Vietnam as a Children’s HeartLink Center of Excellence. Over the past 15 years, Nhi Dong 1 has strived to improve their pediatric cardiac program to consistently deliver high-quality, complex care to children with congenital heart disease. They are the … Continued

Faces of Heart Care: A Medical Training Visit to Vietnam in Pictures

Published May 22, 2023 Medical volunteers from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and Showa University in Japan joined clinicians in Hanoi, Vietnam in April 2023 for a week-long Children’s HeartLink training visit. National Children’s Hospital (NCH) hosted the volunteers as well as their peers from Nhi Dong 1 in Ho Chi Minh City, … Continued

International Nurse Training Programs Supported by Gifts to Children’s HeartLink

Published May 17, 2023 Nurses are often the closest members of the heart care team to a child and their family after surgery, making them well-positioned to deliver patient-centered, personalized care. Despite their value, academic training for nursing in many underserved countries does not adequately prepare them for a pediatric cardiac care setting. Nurse training … Continued

Support Nurse Training to Save Lives

Your gifts help train nurses in underserved countries to provide lifesaving care for children with congenital heart disease. “If a baby is going to collapse after surgery, we know now how to identify the early warning signs.” – Aswathy S., nurse at Children’s HeartLink Center of Excellence Amrita Hospitals, Kochi, India, and participant in the … Continued

Shaun White’s Heart Condition Story

Published March 1, 2023 Shaun White is a household name and an inspiration to many throughout the world, including – and perhaps especially – the one in 100 children born with congenital heart disease each year.  The five-time Olympian and Olympic gold medalist in half-pipe snowboarding was a guest at the Children’s HeartLink Global Gathering … Continued

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