Sharing our hearts by raising awareness.
Parker sharing how his congenital heart defect, HLHS, has not kept him from from playing baseball to the Indiana University of Pennsylvania baseball team.
Raising Awareness
Heart Disease Awareness
Mended Hearts and Mended Little Hearts members raise awareness of heart disease across the lifespan. One in four people in the U.S. have heart disease.
CHD Awareness
One in 110 people in the U.S. have a congenital heart disease—a condition they are born with. We raise awareness to support others so they can get the information and resources they need.
Working with our healthcare teams and hospitals to raise Awareness
Six-month check up appointment. A cardiologist in the making.
Raising awareness is more fun together.
“Sharing our hearts has become kind of our thing.”
Heart patients of all ages raise awareness
“Caroline, our Brave Heart Warrior! She was born with CHD, and she also has pulmonary hypertension, and feeding difficulties. She has had 17 hospital admissions, spending over 400 days of her life at Riley Children’s Hospital. She's been on ECMO, had a cardiac arrest, three open heart surgeries, 6 heart catheterizations, one closed heart surgery, she is such a fighter!”
Most people don’t realize that congenital heart defects are the most common birth defects in the U.S., affecting 1 in every 110 babies (that’s 40,000 every year). Mended Little Hearts works to raise awareness so that families have access to the support and resources they need.
— “THIS IS HARD. BUT IT DOES GET BETTER.”