Save a Heart
The Need
Congenital heart disease is the nation’s most common birth defect, affecting nearly 1 in 110 babies and often requiring lifelong care. For children and families, this can mean complex surgeries, long hospital stays, and a future filled with uncertainty.
At the Congenital Heart Center at University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital – one of the nation’s largest and most experienced congenital and pediatric heart programs – families find more than exceptional medical care. They find answers, hope, and a team that will stand beside them from fetal diagnosis through adulthood and every milestone along the way.
Creating Hope for Heart Families
Save A Heart raises funds year-round, with its greatest push during American Heart Month in February. Every gift provides flexible funding for the Congenital Heart Center’s most urgent needs – from advancing lifesaving research, treatments, and technologies to strengthening programs that support patients and families when they need them most.
Your generosity helps ensure that no heart family faces this journey alone. Together, we can give more children the chance to go home, celebrate birthdays, reach milestones, and build futures filled with possibility.
Every Gift Matters!
Your gift supports life-saving heart research and care. There’s never been a better time to Save A Heart!
How You Can Help
There are a number of ways that you can make a difference during our Save A Heart campaign:
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Frequently Asked Questions
Funds raised through the Save A Heart campaign are critical because they make lifesaving and life-changing care possible for our Little Victors and their families. Your donation fuels critical research and programs for congenital heart families at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.
By contributing to our Save A Heart campaign, you’re providing these families with the latest treatments, most groundbreaking technology, and the uplifting services and comfort that can help them during their most difficult times. You are giving kids with congenital heart disease the chance to live long, healthy, and happy lives.
Here are examples of what donations can do:
- $100 can purchase blood-pressure cuffs. A change in blood pressure is a serious issue for children with congenital heart disease. So we’d like to empower patients to take their own blood pressure as often as they like in addition to having it assessed in the hospital.
- $500 can purchase a backpack that’s loaded with a ventricular assist device that helps the heart pump blood. Children with weakened hearts or heart failure use this type of device while waiting for other treatments like a heart transplant.
- $1,000 can send a child home with wearable medical devices so they can be monitored around the clock through our “Hospital at Home” program.
- $2,500 can purchase a bedside ultrasound machine, which helps doctors rapidly diagnose problems so they can make quick decisions or perform ultrasound-guided procedures right then and there.
- $5,000 can purchase more virtual reality headsets. Patients and their families greatly benefit when they can see a virtual model of what’s going on in their heart and make sense of what the doctors are saying.
- $10,000 can go toward funding a vital research project for one year. Doctors need to know the most effective way to support little hearts!
Yes, checks should be made payable to:
Regents of the University of Michigan
(Memo line: Mott Save a Heart Campaign).
Mail checks to:
Michigan Medicine Office of Development
777 E. Eisenhower Pkwy, Suite 650
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-3268
For sponsorship details, view our Save A Heart sponsorship packet. For more information or questions, contact Jennifer Polan at [email protected].
Use our matching gift tool.
Contact Jennifer Polan at [email protected].
UGP will offer a full refund or exchange within 30 days of purchase. Please ship item(s) to address below with the original packing slip and instructions regarding return or exchange. You can also email questions to us at [email protected] — please include your name and order number.
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