Lurie Children’s Heart Center is excited to join the PCHA in their mission of conquering congenital heart disease! The support and advocacy PCHA provides for our patients and families is indispensable. We are honored to welcome them into our institute on a regular basis and to support them at their 7th annual walk!
The Pediatric Congenital Heart Association’s mission is to “Conquer Congenital Heart Disease.” We are accomplishing this through collaboration with patients, parents, providers, and partner organizations to improve quality and outcomes through CHD education, support, research and awareness.
Our most active program is Care Package-Conquering CHD Kit, distribution to inpatient cardiac families from infants to adults at Illinois area hospitals. We provided Care Packages at: Advocate Hope Children's Hospital, Advocate Lutheran General Children’s Hospital, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Comer’s Children’s Hospital, Loyola University Medical Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, University of Chicago, and Rush University Medical Center.
PCHA-IL Care Package Kits contain comfort items to these families to help ease the hospital burden, and let them know we are there to support them. We provide cardiac cath comfort kits, prenatal kit to expecting parents of CHD babies, and educational resources. Sadly, many of these heart warriors do not survive, PCHA-IL also provides Bereaved Heart Boxes to the families of a lost to preserve their precious memories.
PCHA-IL is 100% volunteer run. Funds from this event will be used to fuel our growing programs in support of the local heart community. Our walk spreads CHD awareness, celebrates all heart warriors, and remembers the CHD Warriors gone too soon.
For more information, about our National Organization, please go to www.conqueringchd.org
For more information, about our PCHA-IL chapter, please go to www.conqueringchd.org/illinois
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