June 2013 Annual Report

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The biggest fight starts with the smallest
Annual report July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013
In 2012, the pediatric cardiac program
at West China Hospital of Sichuan
University performed 618 open-heart
operations and 200 pediatric interventional
cases. Of the 618 open-heart operations,
262 were performed on children under
the age of one. This number of infant
open-heart operations increased
44 percent in one year alone.
kindness
A patient at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), a Children’s
HeartLink partner site in Kochi, India. Photo by Vicky Lakshmanan
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Surgeons working in the operating room at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences
(AIMS), a Children’s HeartLink partner site in Kochi, India. Photo by Vicky Lakshmanan
Leading with Our Hearts
Letter From the President. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Donors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Medical Volunteers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Letter From the Medical Directors. . . . . . . . . . 6
Quality of Care Starts
with Quality Improvement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Giving Kids a Fighting
Chance in Vietnam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Visionary Circle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Board of Directors and Staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Organizational Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
International Advisory Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Helping Parents Around the World. . . . . . . . 30
Financial Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Our Purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Leaders of Hope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
AIMS Partnership. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Summary of Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
The Transformational Journey. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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welcome
Friends of Children’s HeartLink
How do you ask for help when you haven’t even said your first word? When you haven’t learned how to tie your shoes? How do you
fight for your life when your life is dependent on others? You start here, at Children’s HeartLink, where the biggest fight starts with
the smallest heart.
Baby Areyi Paul, pictured on the opposite page, was four months old when she arrived at Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital in Bangalore,
India. Areyi’s family traveled more than 1,100 miles to Bangalore from their home in Calcutta, as treatment in a private hospital was
inaccessible and unaffordable to her father, who earns the equivalent of $85 U.S. dollars per month. As one of Children’s HeartLink’s
Global Partners in Pediatric Cardiac Care, the program at Narayana is invaluable in providing high-quality and accessible care to children
from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq and as far away as the African continent.
Congenital heart disease (CHD) knows no geographic or socioeconomic boundaries. Worldwide, one in 120 children is born with a
heart defect. As I reflect on the story of Areyi, I am grateful for the support of the Children’s HeartLink community dedicated to
assuring access to quality care. Today, Narayana represents what we strive for in each of our partner relationships: a self-sustaining,
accessible and high-quality care institution, providing care to thousands of children who enter its doors each year.
During fiscal year 2013, Children’s HeartLink medical volunteers, advisors and donors came together as they never have before to
support clinical trainings, organizational improvement and leadership development for pediatric cardiac professionals at our 10 partner
sites. This year, we orchestrated a cross-site training initiative between two of our partner sites, our first Global Partner in Pediatric Cardiac
Care and Training, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in India, and Nhi Dong 1 in Vietnam. This exchange was a milestone for our
delivery model and demonstrates our continued investment in building sustainable and high-quality programs worldwide.
Together with our international partners and medical volunteers, Children’s HeartLink provided training to 1,050 medical professionals
this year. We provided 17 customized clinical training visits to our partner sites and also organized 28 off-site training visits, offering
the opportunity for our partners to observe and learn at a center of excellence. As a result, our partner hospitals were able to provide
care to 71,000 children suffering from CHD over the course of the year.
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Patient Areyi Paul rests at Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital, a Children’s HeartLink
partner site in Bangalore, India. Photo by Carissa Johnson
Our accomplishments this year would not have been possible without the generous contributions of our dedicated medical volunteers
who come from outstanding medical institutions. These include Birmingham Children’s Hospital in the United Kingdom, Boston
Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, KK Women’s and
Children’s Hospital and National University Hospital in Singapore, Mayo Clinic, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Seattle Children’s
Hospital, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University and University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital.
As leaders in pediatric cardiac care, Children’s HeartLink does so much more than offer training and capacity building. Thanks
to our committed partners, talented medical volunteers from renowned institutions, generous financial contributors, a dedicated
and experienced staff and a wonderful board of directors, we inspire hope for the children born each year with CHD in the
developing world.
At Children’s HeartLink, we never stop fighting to save the heart of a child. Each and every day we dedicate our work to ensure the
smallest hearts will have access to lifesaving treatment. On behalf of everyone who is part of the Children’s HeartLink family, thank
you for your belief in our mission, and for sharing your time, expertise, financial support and friendship with us this year.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Perlich Sweeney
President, Children’s HeartLink
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From the Children’s HeartLink Medical Directors
In 1969, a U.S. Naval medic noticed a boy squatting listlessly on the ground in Vietnam. Realizing his bluish color was a symptom
of heart disease, he made a call. With the guidance of a dedicated Minneapolis surgeon, the child was brought to the U.S. for
treatment. This child’s successful surgery was the first of many that became the foundation for Children’s HeartLink.
One million children worldwide are born yearly with congenital heart disease (CHD), yet 90 percent of them live in areas where
medical care is inadequate or unavailable.
Children’s HeartLink helps children better their odds in the fight against CHD. Our mission is to not only promote sustainable
pediatric cardiac care, but to establish lasting infrastructures and expertise at our partner sites through focused visits and building
long-term mentorships with world-class medical institutions. We build the capacity of our partner sites toward the goal of becoming
a Global Partner in Pediatric Cardiac Care and Training. These Children’s HeartLink centers of excellence constitute the platform from
which our vision may be realized —
­ to assure that all children around the world have access to quality care.
In fiscal year 2013, our global partners and volunteers trained 1,050 medical professionals and we increased the number of on- and
off-site training experiences. We also facilitated the first pediatric cardiology fellowship in China. We brought our partners to
numerous professional education opportunities, including the 9th Global Forum on Humanitarian Medicine in Cardiology and
Cardiac Surgery. They are not only participating in these forums, but also teaching, leading and sharing their advancements with others.
Children’s HeartLink began by providing treatment to one child 44 years ago. This year, Children’s HeartLink’s partners served 71,000
children in Ukraine, Brazil, India, China, Vietnam and Malaysia, but our initiatives do not end here and the need for your support
remains great. The investment you make in Children’s HeartLink this year ensures that access to treatment is available, not only for
one child, but every child.
Sincerely,
Joseph A. Dearani, M.D.
Medical Director, Children’s HeartLink
Chair, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery,
Mayo Clinic
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David M. Overman, M.D.
Medical Director, Children’s HeartLink
Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery,
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics
of Minnesota
“The story of AIMS and Children’s HeartLink is quite an extraordinary one.
To be quite honest, I don’t think we would be where we are without having
had this association.” R. Krishna Kumar, M.D., clinical professor and head of the department of pediatric cardiology,
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) in Kochi, India
it takes a lot of heart to heal a broken one.
A patient recovers after surgery at Amrita Institute
of Medical Sciences (AIMS) in Kochi, India.
Photo by Vicky Lakshmanan
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Our Purpose
dream
Our purpose is to ensure that children around the world have access to quality care for the treatment of heart disease.
In partnership with key stakeholders, we aspire to achieve our purpose by:
Developing
self-sustaining centers
of excellence in pediatric
and congenital cardiac
care and training in
areas of need
Empowering
medical professionals
to meet the needs
of children with
heart disease
Supporting communities
surrounding partner sites
to coordinate resources
that facilitate access
Congenital heart disease is the single most common major birth
defect around the world, touching one in every 120 children.
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Our Progress
In the past year, Children’s HeartLink continued to work with partners to improve access to pediatric cardiac care by building
capacity at our partner sites and in the communities surrounding them. With help from our medical volunteers, we continued
to support clinical training, as well as organizational and leadership development. We also provided a range of educational
and technical assistance opportunities for pediatric cardiac professionals at our 10 partner sites in six countries. These
opportunities included 17 cardiac training visits by our volunteers and 28 off-site training experiences for our partnersite staff. This represents a significant increase from the previous fiscal year, highlighting the improved effectiveness of
our program delivery approach.
In fiscal year 2013, we continued our community capacity-building initiatives for groups of medical practitioners in the
communities and regions surrounding our partner sites. This resulted in seven Children’s HeartLink-sponsored workshops
and several conference presentations, all reaching groups of developing-world medical professionals from the wider community.
Altogether with our international partners and medical volunteers, we trained 1,050 medical professionals in fiscal year 2013.
Capacity Building
This past year was particularly successful for many new capacity-building initiatives. Examples include:
• Organized the first Parent Advocacy
and Support Group (PASG) for parents
of children with congenital heart defects
in India
• Organized the first ever Pediatric
Advanced Life Support (PALS) training
for nurses in Vietnam
• Hosted the first gathering of partnersite surgeons during the annual meeting
of the American Association for
Thoracic Surgery in Minneapolis
• Brought partners to the first
International Quality Improvement
Collaborative for Congenital Heart
Surgery in Developing World Countries
(IQIC) learning session in Geneva
during the 9th Global Forum on
Humanitarian Medicine in Cardiology
and Cardiac Surgery
• Children’s HeartLink staff was invited
for the first time to present at the 6th
World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology
and Cardiac Surgery in Cape Town,
South Africa
• Facilitated the start of the first pediatric
cardiology fellowship program in China
• Facilitated a new Children’s HeartLink
cross-site training initiative between two
of our partner sites, Nhi Dong 1 in Vietnam
and Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences
in India
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“Children’s HeartLink has given me the opportunity to share my knowledge and skills
as a nurse with nurses in another part of the world, to provide excellent cardiac care
for children. Children’s HeartLink’s goal of providing support and training to create
sustainable programs shows their commitment to improving pediatric cardiac care
worldwide. I have developed a friendship with the staff I have worked with in China,
and feel that our work there has had a profound impact on the children and families
we cared for. Watching a parent’s reaction to seeing their child recovering after
surgery is truly priceless.” Karin Robeck, R.N., pediatric cardiac ICU nurse, University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital
A young patient from West China Hospital #1
of Sichuan University in Chengdu, China.
Photo by Bistra Zheleva
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United States
Ukraine
China
India
Vietnam
Malaysia
Ecuador
Brazil
Leaders of Hope
Brazil
Hospital de Base, São José do Rio Preto
China
First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou
Ecuador
Tropical Disease Institute of Ohio
University, Catholic University of Ecuador,
Loja and Manabí Provinces
India
Jilin Heart Hospital, Changchun
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi
West China Hospital #1 of Sichuan
University, Chengdu
Innova Children’s Heart Hospital, Hyderabad
Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of
Cardiac Sciences, Bangalore
Malaysia
Institut Jantung Negara (National
Heart Institute), Kuala Lumpur
Ukraine
Ukrainian Children’s Cardiac Center, Kyiv
Vietnam
Nhi Dong 1 (Children’s Hospital 1),
Ho Chi Minh City
Postgraduate Institute of Medical
Education and Research, Chandigarh
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empower
AIMS: Coming Together in India for a Bigger Purpose
Our partnership with Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS),
our first Global Partner in Pediatric Cardiac Care and Training, continued
to thrive this past fiscal year. The AIMS pediatric cardiac program is a
valuable resource for Children’s HeartLink and for the pediatric cardiac
community in India. As a Global Partner in Pediatric Cardiac Care and
Training, AIMS serves as a regional center of excellence in treatment
and training and as a thought leader in challenges and opportunities
unique to the management and improvement of pediatric cardiac
care in the developing world.
Over the course of the partnership, Children’s HeartLink and AIMS
have worked collaboratively to provide training opportunities to
more than 1,500 health professionals at AIMS and in the broader
community. This past year, we helped the program strengthen their
capacity by supporting off-site trainings for staff. In February, the
head of the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit (PCICU), Rakhi
Balachandran, M.D., presented at the World Congress of Pediatric
Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery in South Africa. We also sponsored
eight weeks of training for an intensivist at Boston Children’s Hospital,
which included extensive time in the catheterization lab and the
operating room, as well as an emphasis on quality improvement issues.
In June, Children’s HeartLink facilitated a three-month mentoring
and training exchange between AIMS and another Children’s
HeartLink partner site, Nhi Dong 1 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
A pediatric cardiologist from Nhi Dong 1, Do Giang, M.D., traveled
to AIMS for fetal echocardiography training. AIMS embraced their
role as a trainer/mentor and developed a curriculum and training
plan that fostered substantial learning about standard practices and
protocols, observation, consultation, counseling and case reporting.
“Now, my echo skills are better, my knowledge has grown and my English has also
improved! Some cases I just read about in books, but now I have seen with my own
eyes. I understand more clearly about the spirit that a pediatric cardiologist should
have. We treat the patient, not the disease. We must get as much detail as we can
to give the appropriate decision in each situation.” Do Giang, M.D., pediatric cardiologist, Nhi Dong 1,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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AIMS has become a center capable of performing nearly 700 surgical cases of varying
complexity per year. Interventional catheter procedures have increased to 638 and
fetal echocardiograms reached 410 in 2012. AIMS not only experienced their best
patient outcomes last year, but also improved outcomes for patients with complex
surgical needs. In 2012, AIMS staff performed an increased proportion of surgeries of
higher complexity with results comparable to those of centers in developed countries.
In partnership with Children’s HeartLink and the India Academy
of Pediatrics, AIMS organized four workshops where 377 practicing
pediatricians were trained on early diagnosis and timely referral of
cases and appropriate follow-up after hospital intervention. Children’s
HeartLink also continued to support AIMS’ regional infection control
work, which has been an ongoing initiative. In fiscal year 2013, AIMS
hosted two infection control certification programs for nurses, a
modular program developed with Children’s HeartLink’s support in
2010. As a result, 90 nurses in India increased their knowledge and
skills to maintain safe hospital environments and health care delivery
systems. AIMS’ own infection rates have dramatically improved in
the last several years in the AIMS pediatric cardiac program:
With support from Children’s HeartLink and in partnership with
the Kerala chapter of India Academy of Pediatrics (IAP), AIMS
also organized a pediatric antibiotic stewardship program aimed at
understanding the current profile of infections in children admitted
at AIMS, identifying specific situations of inappropriate antibiotic
usage, introducing a system for continued surveillance of antibiotic
usage and creating a platform for a robust antibiotic policy at both
AIMS, and later in the state of Kerala. These projects are part of
Children’s HeartLink’s increased commitment to community and
regional capacity-building programs for health care professionals
aimed at improving community-based screening, appropriate referral,
and in-hospital care for children with heart disease across India.
• Surgical site infections have decreased by 75 percent, from
approximately 10 percent in 2010 to roughly 2.5 percent in 2012
• Bacterial sepsis rates have dropped from 18 percent in 2010 to
10 percent in 2012
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Chen Qirong, Mark Rosen and the
CAAM Chinese Dance Theater.
Photos by Phoetic Images
eventful
A Year to Remember
Children’s HeartLink is fortunate to partner with globally oriented individuals and businesses who are passionate about improving
the welfare of children around the world suffering from heart disease. Fundraising is the focus of Children’s HeartLink events,
but the talented entertainment, showcase venues and enthusiastic guests contribute to the building excitement year after year.
This year’s events were a testament to the imagination and dedication of the volunteers, whose gifts of time and talent yield
incredible dividends for our partner programs and the people they serve.
2012 HeartLink Gala Presented by Ecolab
The 2012 HeartLink Gala Presented by Ecolab celebrated the “Year of the Dragon.” Named for a symbol of prosperity,
longevity, strength and good fortune, the year of the dragon proved to be an enchanting theme to tell Children’s HeartLink’s
story about our work in China. The 2012 HeartLink Gala brought together nearly 575 guests and volunteers to
the Hilton Minneapolis on September 21, 2012. Dedicated honorary chairs Julie and Doug Baker, Chairman
and CEO of Ecolab, helped Children’s HeartLink raise more than $780,000 at the 2012 HeartLink Gala.
Chen Qirong, a thriving 19-year-old engineering student, gave a heartwarming testimonial about
being treated for a congenital heart defect at the age of six when he received treatment at the
First Hospital of Lanzhou University in Lanzhou, China, during a Children’s HeartLink cardiac
training visit. Guests were also treated to performances by the CAAM Chinese Dance Theater
and Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter Pamela McNeill. A culinary-themed silent auction,
live auction and gourmet Chinese-themed dinner completed the event, which was hosted by
Mark Rosen, WCCO-TV’s sports director and a Children’s HeartLink board member.
Julie and Doug Baker. Photo by Phoetic Images
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Heart to Heart 2013
For the seventh year, gourmet supermarket Lunds and Byerly’s generously sold “Tiramisu for
Two,” a Valentine’s Day dessert, with proceeds from the sale benefiting Children’s HeartLink.
This special Valentine’s Day campaign was also supported by Caribou Coffee, Frito Lay and
MOM Brands. Lunds and Byerly’s sponsored a tiramisu tasting in all Twin Cities locations,
featuring local celebrity Miss Minnesota 2012, Siri Freeh, and media personalities such as
Alexis Thompson from myTalk 107.1, Brian “B.T.” Turner from K-TWIN, K-FAN’s Henry
Lake and KARE 11’s Belinda Jensen, Jana Shortal, Kim Insley and Pat Evans.
Grocery shoppers had the opportunity to donate $3, $5 or $10 at checkout, making it easy
for customers to include donations to Children’s HeartLink on their grocery bill. The 2013
Heart to Heart campaign raised $36,500 for Children’s HeartLink.
Right: Miss Minnesota 2012, Siri Freeh. Photo by Helga Radio
Below: Volunteer Bess Heyer, KARE-TV’s Jana Shortal and Children’s HeartLink employee Emily Dale. Photo by Helga Radio
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21st Annual heartLINKS Golf Invitational
The 21st Annual heartLINKS Golf Invitational featured 18 holes of golf at the Golden Valley
Golf and County Club, complimentary beer at the Miller Lite Oasis and a variety of on-course
contests, including the Longest Putt, Straightest Drive, U.S. Bank FlexPerk Getaway contest,
Longest Drive, Chipotle Beat-the-Pro contest and pre-tournament contests “Aim for the Heart”
on the driving range and “Putt to the Summit” on the putting green.
Following the tournament, golfers enjoyed dinner, an award ceremony, and a silent auction and
raffle prizes. This year’s golf tournament raised $66,000 for Children’s HeartLink. After 21 great
years of organizing an annual golf tournament, Children’s HeartLink had decided that this year’s
tournament would be our last. We are grateful for the many generous sponsors and dedicated
volunteers who made the heartLINKS Golf Invitational possible!
Above: The U.S. Bank FlexPerks team at the 21st Annual heartLINKS Golf Invitational. Photo by Phoetic Images
Right: The Minnesota Twins team at the 21st Annual heartLINKS Golf Invitational. Photo by Phoetic Images
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generosity
Donors
Thank you to all of our donors for your devotion and concern for children. We are proud and honored to recognize your contributions.
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of contributions made between July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2013. Please inform the
development office at (952) 928-4860, ext. 23, of any oversight or inaccuracies and please accept our apologies in advance.
Corporations,
Foundations and
Organizations
Minnesota Vikings
$5,000–$9,999
Minnesota Twins
Gray Plant Mooty
Pentair
ACIST Medical Systems
Mortenson Family Foundation
Hays Companies
St. Jude Medical Foundation
Andersen Corporation
Pellegrini Solutions, Inc.
IBM Employee Services Center
U.S. Bank
Bellisio Foods, Inc.
Rosen’s Diversified, Inc.
$10,000–$24,999
Bernard J. and Valerie A.
Daenzer Foundation, Inc.
Wellesley Financial Group
Kaiser Permanente
Community Giving Campaign
Andreas Foundation
Carlson Companies
$50,000–$99,999
APi Group, Inc.
Delta Air Lines
$1,000–$4,999
Leonard, Street & Deinard
Cargill Foundation
Cargill
Frito Lay
Alerus Financial
McGough Construction
Edwards Lifesciences
Caribou Coffee Company, Inc.
Great River Energy
America’s Charities
Moss & Barnett P.A.
General Mills
Caroline’s Kids Foundation
Piper Jaffray
Zynga Inc.
Dorsey & Whitney, LLP
Hedberg Family
Charitable Foundation
Ameriprise Financial
Arizant Healthcare
Independent Charities
of America
PwC
Barnes & Thornburg, LLP
RBC Wealth Management
Bremer Bank
Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben, P.A.
Children’s Hospitals
and Clinics of Minnesota
Tankenoff Families Foundation
$100,000+
Medtronic Foundation
$25,000–$49,999
Boston Scientific
Deloitte
Ecolab
The Hubbard
Broadcasting Foundation
Land O’Lakes
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Ernst and Young LLP
George Family Foundation
Lunds and Byerly’s
The C. Charles Jackson
Foundation
Pine River Capital Management
MOM Brands
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Target Corporation
Microsoft Matching
Gifts Program
The Tarsadia Foundation
Xcel Energy
Creekridge Capital
Fulcrum Consulting
Grant Thornton
Larry D. Martin Law Office
Lazard Freres & Co. LLC
Thomson Reuters
Thrivent Financial for
Lutherans Foundation
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the power to save a child’s life starts with you.
United Way of
Metropolitan Chicago
United Way of the
National Capital Area
UnitedHealth Group
Matching Gift Funds
$250–$499
Dave Cowley Incentives, Inc.
Geyen Group
Kelly Mitchell Group, Inc.
Piper Jaffray Employee Giving
American Legion Auxiliary
Unit 73
Individuals
American Legion Auxiliary
Unit 139
$25,000+
American Legion Auxiliary
Unit 169
Katina and Franck Gougeon
$10,000–$24,999
Anne and Chris Policinski
Caroline Amplatz
Wendy Bennett and
Kendall Powell
Julie and Doug Baker
Shannon and Mark Evenstad
Kelly and Andrew Nelson
Ardelle Nicoloff
Carmen and Barry Nordstrand
Dorothy and Robert Ollmann
$500–$999
Stokes Auction Group, Inc.
Boston Scientific Employee
Giving Program
Best and Flanagan
SUNY Geneseo Women’s
Leadership Institute
CVS Annual Giving Campaign
TCF Financial Corp.
Dell Employee Giving
United Way of Long Island
eBay MissionFish
Wells Fargo Community
Support Campaign
Horizon Agency
Susan Gebelein and
Richard Holcomb
Infinity Direct, Inc.
Laura and Joseph Kiser, M.D.
Wells Fargo Private
Mortgage Banking
St. Andrews Sewanee School
Steve Kuhn
State Employees Federated
Appeal CUNY Campaign for
Charitable Giving
Kathy and Emmett McMahon
Molly Joseph and Andrew Olson
$1,000–$4,999
U.S. Bancorp Foundation
Employee Matching Gifts
Program
Theolyn Price, M.D.
James Anderson
Michael Rimland
Eileen and
Thomas Armitage, M.D.
Buffalo Wild Wings
Greater Twin Cities
United Way
Larson King LLP
Lindquist & Vennum
Network for Good
Oak Grove Foundation
Padilla Speer Beardsley, Inc.
Pinstripes
Prudential Foundation
Matching Gifts
State Employees’
Community Campaign
Whitney Foundation
Up to $249
American Express Foundation
American Legion Auxiliary
Department of Illinois
American Legion Auxiliary
Department of New Hampshire
American Legion Auxiliary
Department of Vermont
American Legion Auxiliary
Unit 52
Uponor
Deb and David Andreas
Theresa and Richard Davis
Deneen and Christopher Vojta
$5,000–$9,999
Marianne and Brett Brewer
Ann and Mike Ciresi
David Strand and
Bridget Duffy, M.D.
Maggie Gilbert and
Robert Rosenbaum
Mike and
Elizabeth Perlich Sweeney
Deb and Tom Vanderheyden
Mary and David Wicker
Martha Goldberg Aronson
and Dan Aronson
Rachael and Craig Atkinson
Karen and Thomas Bach
Liliane and Guillaume Bastiaens
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Quality of Care Starts with Quality Improvement
Children’s HeartLink continues to provide technical and financial assistance to several of our partner sites to support their participation
in the International Quality Improvement Collaborative for Congenital Heart Surgery in Developing World Countries (IQIC).
The IQIC was conceived in 2007 by Boston Children’s Hospital, Children’s HeartLink and other pediatric cardiac care capacitybuilding organizations working in congenital heart surgery to address the problems faced by developing world programs. One major
problem was the lack of comparable program data to evaluate performance and guide quality improvement. Since 2007, the IQIC has
addressed this need by facilitating hospital participation in data submission to an online database designed to track clinical outcomes
and by examining the outcomes across developing world programs. The IQIC has also provided education on quality improvement
strategies centered on the three “key drivers” of reduced mortality associated with congenital heart surgery: safe perioperative practice,
reduction of surgical site infections and bacterial sepsis and team-based practice through nurse empowerment.
In June, Boston Children’s Hospital and Children’s HeartLink staff facilitated the first ever in-person IQIC learning session in Geneva,
Switzerland, during the 9th Global Forum on Humanitarian Medicine in Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery. For some participants, this
was their first trip outside of their home country, and for others, this was the first professional conference of their careers. For all
participants, this was a groundbreaking opportunity to meet with their counterparts who face similar infrastructure, human resource
and other challenges to brainstorm solutions to improve quality of and access to care for pediatric patients with heart disease.
Representatives from Nhi Dong 1, Hospital de Base and Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences presented about individual program
improvements at both the IQIC learning session and the Global Forum. Most sites presented storyboards detailing recent successes
in quality improvement projects they had undertaken. Bruna Cury, R.N., nurse and international liaison from Hospital de Base,
remarked, “This event was no doubt one of the greatest learning experiences of my life! Our team at Hospital de Base Pediatric
Cardiology Service is so grateful to have Children’s HeartLink as our partner and to participate in the IQIC database.”
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The mission of the IQIC is to reduce mortality and major
complications for children undergoing congenital heart
surgery in developing world programs. To achieve our
goals, the collaborative aims to:
Children’s HeartLink Partner IQIC participants:
• Create tailored quality-improvement strategies to
reduce mortality and major complications for developing
world programs
• Hospital de Base
• Employ a telemedicine platform to facilitate distance-learning
and dialogue, and to disseminate knowledge and skills
• West China Hospital of Sichuan University
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• Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences
• First Hospital of Lanzhou University
• Innova Heart Hospital
• Nhi Dong 1
$1,000–$4,999 (continued)
Peggy Johnson
Michael Towns
Philip Jemielita
Kathleen and Thomas Rogers
Pat and John Beithon
Richard Johnson
Jill and John Trautz
Kathy Jenkins, M.D.
Kathryn and Jack Romita
Janine and Kevin Bennett
George Kehl
Leona Werner and Bob Waldron
Sharalyn and Bruce Johnson
Lisa and Mike Schwie
Nancy and Paul Boddicker
Victoria and
Thomas A. Keller, III
Jackie and M. Bradley Winges
Karen and Tom Jollie
Ida Belle Sweitzer
Otto C. Winzen
Erika and Herbert Kahler
Loren Thacker
Susan and Matthew Law
Randi Winston and
Barry Wolfish
Donna Avery and Thomas Kigin
Becky Thorson
Steve and Kathi Austin Mahle
Jill and Pat Wyant
Tammy and Mark Leenay
Julie and Bob Witt
Besse Maragos
Jean Simon and
George Zenanko
Dan Loftus
Carla and Rod Young
Susan Wyble and Kevin Busch
Sally K. Bye
Christine and Jeremy Chase
Kerry Chase
Joel Conner
Melinda and Jeff Cotton
Angela Craig
Roberta and James Craig, M.D.
Ann M. and
Joseph A. Dearani, M.D.
Kathy and Sam Economou
Elyse and Anupam Kharbanda
Leni and David Moore, Jr.
Melissa and Boake Munsch
Justin Zenanko
Mike O’Meara
$500–$999
Kristine and
David Overman, M.D.
Jet Baker
Betsy and Tom Pfeifer
Ann and Koen Bastiaens
Elizabeth and Michael Lori
Usha Maddala
Girish Mallapragada
Sophie and Munir Meghjee
Janice and Russell Michaletz
Michelle and Blair Allen
Matt Ames
Brenda and Michael Arbeiter
Kim and Jeff Bjustrom
Susan and Todd Bordson
Cindy and Jim Murphy
Allison and Rob Barmann
Bonnie and
F. Blanton Bessinger, Jr., M.D.
Dannette Smith and
David Piehl
Michele and Jonathan Eisele
Adam and Roxann Pike, M.D.
Tonya and Joe Colletti
Audrey Murray
Brynn and Jeff Evanson
Jan and Paul Pitlick
Jean and David Dassenko, M.D.
Rene and Timothy Newman
Ajay Gupta and
Jyothsna Rayadurg, M.D.
Barbara and Allen Nussbaum
Sakurako and William Fisher
Beatrice Rothweiler and
Neil Derechin, M.D.
Berit and Michael Francis
Kevin Rehnberg
Phyllis and Paul Droher
Sonja Devick Odland and
James Odland
Janet and Pat Gray
Emily and Brian Rice
Margo and Brad Farrell
Eric and Sara Olsen
Janice and Lawrence Grundtner
Onie and Gordon H. Ritz, Jr.
Karen and Lorry Frankel
Rick Ostrom
Keith Halleland
Van and Jim Sanders
Paulette Engelby, R.N.
Jean and Jeff Paurus, R.N.
Rebecca Lergier and
Dan Hanrahan
Dan Schmechel
Deborah Giesen
Jacob Pernick
Jill Schurtz
Rachel and Scott Haisting
Sharon Hawkins
Janet and Ron Schutz
Dorothy and Larry Hamm, M.D.
Marie Steiner, M.D. and
Lee Pyles, M.D.
Jean and John Hedberg
Joyce and William Sieben
Pouya Hemmati
Jane and Peter Hesslein, M.D.
Barb Simonson
Paul Hoedeman
Kristin and Jason Stokes
Andrea Kaufman and
Jim Jacobson
Sally Cheng and Sam Hsu
Kristen Olsen and Erick Ajax
Susan Haggberg-Miller and
Bob Miller
Susan Kline and John Eisberg
Jan and John Finnegan, Ph.D.
$250–$499
Laurence and Gilles Aublin
Cheryl Bock
Annamarie Daley and
Galen Bruer
Maija and Brendan Cassidy
Cheryl and Jeff Cowan
Margarita and Deniz Cultu
Carol and Ted Cushmore
Abigail and Doug Daum
Bryan Doneff
Peggy and Thomas Radio
Angeli Duffin
Judy and Jim Rice, Ph.D.
Melanie and Paul Dunleavy
Sonja Hutchinson and
Richard Rohrer
Sarah and Kurt Erickson
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A nurse tends to a patient after an operation at West China Hospital #1
of Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. Photo by Bistra Zheleva
Patricia and Philip McElroy
Greg Stroik
Marcie and Joseph Becker
Sharon and Stan Chauss
Jerry McLaughlin
Kenneth Suzan
Brenda Behan
Stuart Chazin
Kathleen and
William McReavy, Sr.
Todd Terhorst
Scott Belcher
Jeff Chen
Geoffrey Thomas
Shirley Bentdahl
Everett Christensen
Jeanne and Thomas Morizio
Betty and
Robert Van Tassel, M.D.
Jessica Berg
Laura Christensen
Katie and Mark Mortenson
Katrina and Andy Wallmeyer
Patricia Berg
Carol Church
Dahri and Jeff Myers, M.D.
Maureen Kucera-Walsh
and Mike Walsh
Leslie Berkshire
Caroline Closmore
Lisa and Richard F. Birhanzel
Maria and Thomas Coffman
Denise and Chuck Warta
Sara Birkholz
Rev. Anthony Coniaris
Julie and Jeff Weirens
Lydia Botham
Kay Cotter
Pamela and
Daniel Weisdorf, M.D.
Sarah Bougie
Russ Crawford
Erin and Jason Brass
Gordon Curphy
Up to $249
Barb and Jon Brekke
Emily Dale
Anonymous
Bryan Brouchard
Rachel and Mike Roen
Kimberly and
Norman Abramson
Alvina and
Martin Brueggemann
Julie Verry and
Dean Davidson
Katie and Tony Scarfone
Lora Alexander
Harold Brull
Kay Helen Dixon
John Schmitz
Erika Andersen
Chad Buege
Elise Marie Doemer
Pablo Kuntz
Jessica Smith-Schuh and
Brandon Schuh
Donna Marie Anderson
Julianne Bye
Amy Perwien and Brian Dorn
Craig Kvamme
Lorri and Keith Schuler
Marina and John Antoniou
Michelle Casiello
Lewis Driskill
Kareen and Mark Lambert
Andrea Scott and Joe Schwarz
Deborah Saunders-Asher
and Jimmy Asher
Betty Cavouras
Keith Ellingson
Norm Linnell
Mary Solberg
Elizabeth and Melvin Chafetz
Kandace and David Ellis
Brianna and Ben Axelrod
Susan and Richard Lundell
Roger Sorensen
Clayton Chan
Helen-Ann Brown Epstein
Anne Baker
Suzanne and Bob McCarty
Kathryn Stangler
Poonam Chandar
Christina Ledin and Jerry Baker
Kendra Towner and
Donald Fadner
Rena and Michael Feldman
Mae Ferguson
Indu and Satya Garg
Sally and Mike Grossman
Sue and Mike Hangge
Kristen and Loren Heeringa
Karen Ho
Tami and Michael Holsten
William Hren
Carol Huss
Gretchen and Rick Jelinek
Janet and Gordon Johnson
Kay and Bob Jones
Jean Katkov
Cheryll and Joseph Kerzman
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Peggy and Matt Monsein
Quan Ni
Libby Nicklow
Kris Nielsen, C.C.P.
Cheng-Hsin Ouyang
Mary Perlich
Tanja and Allen Pofahl
Helen Hilton Raiser
Jessica and Adam DeRosier
Betty and Brian Falk
Susan and Brent Hames
Kathryn and Thomas Julian
Leo Lopez
Doug Mickschl
Jennifer Leigh Faultner
Judith and Martin Hansen
Carrie Ellis and Jason Kalgreen
Aaron Loss
Scott Mida
Barbara and Rick Fisk
John J. Harrer
Raj Kapoor
Sally Love
Bruce Mills
Patricia Franklin
Ila and Kevin Harris, M.D.
R. Marianne Kaufmann
Becky Ludvigson
Natasha and Vadim Mirkin
Gloria Freeman
Scott Harris
Margit Katz
Mary and Thomas Maimares
Jill Misgen, R.N.
Dr. Jim Fricton
Shanna Haugland
Nancy and Mike Keller
Mary Makredes
Paulette Mitchell
Joan Froh
Kiki and John Hedican
Don Kelly
Peggy and Rodney Malikowski
Renata and Todd Moning
Molly Froseth
Darwin Hendel
Jonathan Kleva
Rajeswari Manepalli
Bruce Moyer, C.C.P.
Mike Fuller
Dean Henderson
Darrin Knapp
Kathy Manley
Gregg Musiker
Bistra Zheleva and
Denis Gablenko
Sally and Peter Herfurth
Lazaros Kochilas
Jenny Manogue
Faina Nemirovsky
Brian Herstig
Rita Kolars
Renee and Steve Marino
Yan Ni, M.D.
Phong Ho
Katrina Vander Kooi
Diane and Dave Markovich
Jim Hollock
Mary and Bob Kovell
Rose Fricke and Aaron Martin
Leslie Otto and
Alexander Nicoloff
Shawn Holt
Michelle and Joel Kralj
Carrie and Paul Martinson
Kelly and Steven Housh
Kay Kramer
Katie Martinson
Sandra and Scott Hvizdos
Brett Krebsbach
Julia Mason
Debisu Hyde
Connie and Kris Krishnan
Ben Mattson
Rajeswari Itharaju
Alice and Thomas Kullman
Ingrid Mattsson
Caroline Jackson
Mary Burns and
Stephen Kurachek, M.D.
Pete McCarthy
Jennifer Gengler
Jennifer and John Giese
Edie Goldberg
Sue and Jim Grahek
Irene Grangaard
Laura and Jack Greenberg
Virginia and John Greenman
Mike Gross
Margaret Grote
Valerie Grove
Karen Hansen and Bill Gurstelle
David Gutzke
Kathy Bjerke and James L. Haas
Cindy Hacker
Heather and Spencer Hagen
Rodney Hald
Marilyn and Andrew Jackson
Jenny Jechort
Kristi Jereska
Carissa Johnson
Jim Jones
Andrew Kwon
Lisa Lange
Jennifer and Andrew Larson
Maxine Lazovick
Jennifer McCool
Timothy McCormick
Brad McEnroe
Kirk McGregor
Edward Mears
Mike Joseph
Patricia and
James Lehmann, M.D.
Neeraj Joshi
Claudia Liebrecht
Cynthia and Scott Mevissen
Michael Longrie
Lee Ann and Bruce Meyer
Linda Merritt, R.N.
A patient recovers in the cardiology ward at Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Cardiac Sciences in Bangalore, India. Photo by Helga Radio
Insolia Nina
Michael Nixt
Jean O’Brien
Lee Ann and David Overman
Larry Paster
Visvas Patel
Rob Peichel
Joan Peterson
Frances Schwartz
Margery and Sheldon Torgerson
Fernanda Petto
Peter Seidman
Janice Treat
Marjorie Pihl
Joan Semmer
Tom Trutna
Jean Launspach, M.D.
and Tony Plucinski, M.D.
Ross Shaich
Michael Ushay, M.D.
Barbara and Dennis Shaw
Cindy Marsh and
Wendell Vandersluis
50th Street Café
Karen and Robert Vanney
5-8 Club
Candice and John Varco
A Sure Bet
Jason Vega
Adele’s Custard
Sharon Vik
Al Strang’s School of Golf
Mark Warner
Al Vento
American Society of
Interior Designers (ASID)
Minnesota Chapter
Helga Radio
Victoria and Paul Radosevich
Michael Jon James Rasmussen
Lauren Record
Molly Wright Reppenhagen
and Chloe Reppenhagen
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In-Kind Donors
Lynn Petersen
Melanie and Keith Sherman
Gabriel Skelly
Sarah Skowronsky
Richard Smith, M.D.
Susan and Don Smith
Karin Robeck, R.N.
Chad Sobocinski
Christopher Rodgers
Marc Sokol
Madeline and
Fredrick Washburn, M.D.
Sylvia and Richard Rog
Arif Somani, M.D.
Ruth and Steve Waxman
Kathryn and Daniel Rominski
Jennifer Spies
Jennifer Wehby
Matthew Rosenblatt
Pete Spike
Sam Weisdorf
Elizabeth and John Rossiter
Andrea and Ryan Sriver
Mary Weston
Lisa and Daniel Rothstein
Lisa and Joe Stackhouse
Lorraine and Kenneth Roufs
Linda and James Stein
Ann Schrooten and
Dawn Wieczorek
Mary Jo and William Rusinak
Corinne and Timothy Sterling
Jamie Wiggins
Nancy Rutzen
Lucinda and Randy Stroetz
Marguerite and Alex Wilson
Annamarie and Paul Saarinen
Joseph Struble
Kim and Jason Wirka
Scott Saffert
Erin and Mike Studeman
Laura and Teddy Wong
Sunipa Saha
Jennifer and Brennan Summers
Jennifer and Chris Woodruff
Mimi and Tony Sandler
Mary and Richard Tacheny
Andrea Yang
Christopher Sather
Barbara Talavan
Howard Yee
Ashley Schlag
Renee Tasaka
Sue and Alvin Zelickson
Barb Schuh
Judith Taylor
Li Zhuo
Anne and Mark Schumann
Steven Tentis
Paulina and Glen Zibley
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Dianne and Ken Zylla
10,000 Licks Farm Fresh Pops
3 Tiers Cake
321 Theatrical Management
Angie’s Hats
Angry Catfish
Arrowwood Resort &
Conference Center
Breadsmith
Browne USA, Inc.
Brunswick Zone XL
Buffalo Wild Wings
Bull Run Coffee
Bungalow 6 Design
California Olive Ranch
Café Latte
Café Maude
Café Vin
Callaway
Cannon River Winery
Celluon
Chambers Hotel
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres
Char Crust
Robin Asbell
Children’s Theatre Company
Auction Harmony
Chipotle Mexican Grill
B.R. Cohn Winery
Christos Greek Restaurant
BDM Agency
Chronicle Books
Beka North America
Cima Collina
Best & Flanagan
Janice Cole
Big Ink
Comedy Sportz Improv Theater
Birchwood Café
Companion Group
Blue Plate Restaurant Company
Costa Farms
BMO Harris
CRAVE
BMW of Minnetonka
CREATE Catering +
Dining Studio
Bradshaw International, Inc.
Brave New Workshop
Cuisinart
Di Majo Norante
K.Y. Wong, M.D., a cardiologist
from KK Women’s and Children’s
Hospital in Singapore, performs
an echocardiogram on a patient at
Nhi Dong 1, a Children’s HeartLink
partner site in Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam. Photo by Bistra Zheleva
Dixon Golf
Gardens of Salonica
Raghavan Iyer
La Petite Fleur
Michael Aram
Dulcet Cuisine
Gartner Studios
Izzy’s Ice Cream Café
LaFayette Club
Microplane
Ecolab
Gold Nugget Tavern & Grille
Jerry’s Foods
Larson Design Build
Midtown Global Market
Edina Country Club
Golden Valley Golf and
Country Club
Joe’s Garage
Le Meridien Chambers
Minneapolis
Millennium Hotel Minneapolis
John F. Eisberg
Elle-Tee & the Kitchen
Epitome Papers
Familia Meschini Wines
FlexPerk Visa
Fogo de Chao
Kieran Folliard
Doris Fortino
Fortune Bay Resort Casino
Fritz Underground Winery
Gandhi Mahal Restaurant
Grand Hotel Minneapolis
Great River Energy
Grgich Hills Estate
Hadley Table
Hammer Made
Hell’s Kitchen
Hilton Minneapolis
Holy Land
Ichiban Japanese
Steakhouse & Sushi Bar
Kafe 421
Kai USA LTD.
Kane’s Catering
Katie Murphy Stationery
KellyMitchell
Kemps
KettlePizza
Kitchen in the Market
Susan Kline
Kowalski’s Markets
LifeSpa
Lion’s Tap
Little Griddle Innovations, LLC
Luci Restaurants
Mall of America
Maverick Industries
McCoy’s Public House
Media Loft
Stephanie A. Meyer
Mezzetta
MillerCoors Brewing
Minneapolis Club
Minnesota Children’s Museum
Minnesota Monthly
Minnesota Twins Baseball Club
Minnesota Vikings
Minnesota Wild
Minnetonka Moccasin
Paulette Mitchell
MN Pro Paintball
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In-Kind Donors
(continued)
Redstone American Grill
Tom James
Rice Paper Restaurant
Toro
Montage Laguna Beach
Rustica Bakery
Toshiba
MyTalk107.1 FM
Salad Girl
Trudeau
Nath Corporations
Seven
True Fabrications
Naviya’s Thai Brasserie
Shapco
Tuttle’s
North Star Bartenders Guild
Skin Rejuvenation Clinic
U.S. Bank
Old Dutch Foods, Inc.
Software for Good
U.S. Bank FlexPerks Visa
Olympic Hills Golf Club
Spoonriver
Unleash Your Inner Foodie
One Dish at a Time
Stages Theatre Company
Vino in the Valley
Pairings Food & Wine Market
Star Tribune
Vitamix
Pedal Pub Twin Cities
Summer Harsh Botanical
Artistry
Walker Art Center
Periscope
Perry Creek Winery
Peter’s Grill
Phillips Distilling Company
Phoetic Images
Sun Street Breads
Sundara Inn & Spa
Surly Brewing Company
Pinstripes
Mike and
Elizabeth Perlich Sweeney
Pizzeria Lola
Sweet Retreat
PoorBoy Candy
The Blue Door Pub
Porter Creek Hardwood Grill
The Burl Oaks Golf Club
Professional Billiards Services
The Camellia Inn
Radisson Hotel Bloomington
By Mall of America
The Depot Renaissance
Minneapolis Hotel
Rare Steak & Sushi
The Local
RBC Wealth Management
The Lowbrow
Recombinetics
Thyme to Entertain
Red Stag Supperclub
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Warehouse Winery
Way Cool Cooking School
Andrew Weber
Whole Foods
Wildfire Restaurant
Wine and Canvas
Wintergreen Dogsled
Lodge, Inc.
Wirtz Beverage
Wirtz Beverage Minnesota
WÜSTHOF-TRIDENT OF
AMERICA, INC.
Xcel Energy Center
Zelo
Zen Box
Zinnia Design Florals
In Honor of
Pantea Holt
Shawn Holt
Sally K. Bye
Julianne Bye
Carissa and Peggy Johnson
Caroline Jackson
Jonathan Casiello
Michelle Casiello
Joseph Kiser, M.D.
Claudia Liebrecht
Children’s HeartLink Staff
Barb Simonson
Dilip S. Kittur’s Birthday
and Father’s Day
Alvina and
Martin Brueggemann
Wendy Cevallos
Lauren Record
Maureen and Bill Chandler’s
50th Wedding Anniversary
Kandace and David Ellis
John Cushing, Jr.
Laura and Joseph Kiser, M.D.
Matan Dragon’s Bar Mitzvah
Elizabeth and Melvin Chafetz
Zoe Faultner
Jennifer Faultner
Sue Gebelein Running the
New York City Marathon
Lora Alexander
Erika Andersen
Patricia Berg
Harold Brull
Kay Cotter
Gordon Curphy
Patricia Franklin
Jennifer Gengler
Edie Goldberg
Darwin Hendel
Jim Hollock
Debisu Hyde
Kay Kramer
Maxine Lazovick
Sally Love
Bruce Mills
Joan Semmer
Marc Sokol
Cindy Marsh and
Wendell Vandersluis
Mary Weston
Emily Kralj
Joel Kralj
Frances and Richard Moyer
Bruce Moyer, C.C.P.
Pratyay’s Birthday
Rajeswari Itharaju
Richard and Joseph
Rocco, Esqs.
Larry Paster
Phyllis Supino
Helen-Ann Epstein
Dr. Andrew Peik’s
40th Birthday
Sandra and Scott Hvizdos
Bridget Duffy, M.D. and
David Strand
Sakurako and William Fisher
Elizabeth Perlich Sweeney
Laura and Joseph Kiser, M.D.
Mike and Elizabeth
Perlich Sweeney
Sally K. Bye
Heather Varco’s Birthday
Candice and John D. Varco
In Memory of
Kit Arom
Sylvia and Richard Rog
Ellyod A. Hauser
The Hauser Family
Carmen and Barry Nordstrand
Solutran
Dan H. Box
Theolyn Price, M.D.
Baby John Edward Hedican
John and Kiki Hedican
Nadja Carr
Cheryl and Jeff Cowan
The Cowan Family
Stephanie Giesen
Debora Giesen
John Rohiteshwar Chandar Sr
Poonam Chandar
Adeline Granlund
Ardelle Nicoloff
Benjamin Michael Dercks
Judith Taylor
Bruce Johnson, M.D.
Dorothy and Larry Hamm, M.D.
Richard Johnson
Jean Launspach, M.D. and
Tony Plucinski, M.D.
Frances Schwartz
Laura Driskill
Lewis Driskill
Marjorie K. Larson
Mary Makredes
Myrna Economou
Marina and John Antoniou
Janet Lillyblad
Joan and Bruce Peterson
Gary DeCramer
Virginia and John Greenman
Olivia Rene Newman
Rene Taylor Newman and
Timothy Newman
Samuel Peguero
SUNY Geneseo Women’s
Leadership Institute
Dr. Demetre Nicoloff
Memorial Fund
Bonnie and F. Blanton
Bessinger, Jr., M.D.
Rev. Anthony Coniaris
Paulette D. Engelby, R.N.
Kelly and Steven Housh
Ardelle Nicoloff
Sylvia and Richard Rog
Stephanie N. and
Mark S. Schoening
Dorothy and Robert Ollman
Alexander Nicoloff and
Leslie Otto
Tankenoff Families Foundation
Nancy and Wayne Vander Vort
Neal Perlich
Elizabeth and John Rossiter
Betty Rew
Elizabeth and Walter Bachman
Barbara and Allen Nussbaum
Audrey Thayer
Rita Kolars
Timothy McCormick
Nancy Rutzen
Margery and Sheldon Torgerson
Ann Schrooten and
Dawn Wieczorek
John Anthony Thieke
Jack Greenberg
Betty Lou Romparte
Judy and Martin Hansen
Cavan Varco
Candice and John D. Varco
Amit Sarkar
Brenda Behan
Dr. Richard L. Varco’s
100th Brithday
Candice and John D. Varco
Lydia Mary Schwarz
Barbara Talavan
Dr. Sidney K. Shapiro
Sally K. Bye
Phyllis Hanna Irene Fletcher
Anonymous
for every litt le heart,
every litt le bit counts.
Dr. Nicola Ngiam from National University Hospital in Singapore and Dr. Minh, an intensivist from Nhi Dong 1,
examine a patient’s chest X-ray at Nhi Dong 1 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photo by Bistra Zheleva
Jeff Verry
Julie Verry and Dean Davidson
Nell Whittington
Theolyn Price, M.D.
Evelyn Wrobel
Michael Longrie
Insolia Nina
Lynn Petersen
thanks
Visionary Circle
The Children’s HeartLink Visionary Circle recognizes the most generous investors in our mission to save lives and heal hearts
around the globe. Members of the Visionary Circle are individuals who contribute $10,000 or more and corporations, foundations
and organizations that contribute $25,000 or more in a given year.
Individuals
Caroline Amplatz
Deb and David Andreas
Julie and Doug Baker
Theresa and Richard Davis
Katina and Franck Gougeon
Susan Gebelein and Richard Holcomb
Laura and Joseph Kiser, M.D.
Steve Kuhn
Kathy and Emmett McMahon
Molly Joseph and Andrew Olson
Theolyn Price, M.D.
Michael Rimland
Deneen and Christopher Vojta
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Corporations,
Foundations
and Organizations
Boston Scientific
Thank you
for your
support!
Cargill / Cargill Foundation
Deloitte
Ecolab
Edwards Lifesciences
General Mills
The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation
Land O’Lakes
Medtronic Foundation
Minnesota Vikings
Pentair
St. Jude Medical Foundation
U.S. Bank
Zynga Inc.
The pediatric cardiac program at Institut Jantung Negara (IJN, or National Heart
Institute) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, performed 917 open-heart operations and
560 pediatric interventional cases in 2012. Of the 917 open-heart operations that
were performed, 313 were performed on children under the age of one.
Organizational Volunteers
Children’s HeartLink relies on a network of volunteers for support with our organization’s programs, outreach, event logistics and other
activities. We would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their tireless efforts and inspiring dedication. Thank you, everyone.
Grace Anderson
Richard Davis
Peggy Johnson
Kunal Mehta
Jessica Shaw
Rob Anderson
Theresa Davis
Belinda Jensen
Melissa Molitor
Jana Shortal
Lester Bagley
Kim Deutsch
Renee Johnson
Andrew Nelson
Hester Simons
Doug Baker
Greta Drentlaw
Jason Kalgreen
Essa Nerenhausen
Barb Simonson
Jetson Baker
Laura Durden
Sarah Klang
Quan Ni
Mary Solberg
Jared Sommer
Julie Baker
Pat Evans
Dave LaCoursiere
Lia Nicklow
Guillaume Bastiaens
John Finnegan, Ph.D.
Henry Lake
Eric Olsen
James Stein
CJ Becker
Siri Freeh
Leila Larson
Juliana Panetta
Linda Stein
Katie Bellows
Mike Fuller
Ntshiashee Kristine Lee
Christine Papai
Michelle Stone-Light
Peter Beniares
Susan Gebelein
Tom Lewis
Kristin Peters
Jennifer Strong
Erin Betlock
John Giese
Jeff Light
Chris Policinski
Ying Suo
Sara Birkholz
Kristen Gillard
Kelly Linnihan
Julie Povick
Mike Sweeney
Sam Boddicker
Karin Haas
Susie Long
Ken Powell
Cathy Taylor-Sharp
Susan Bordson
Heather Hagen
Emerald Lu
Apoorva Reddy
Alexis Thompson
Debbie Bougie
Spencer Hagen
Stephanie Lund
Jim Rice, Ph.D.
Jeanette Tsakistos
Sarah Bougie
Jenny Halek
Kathy Manley
Molly Romanie
Michael Tsakistos
Jackie Brand
Claire Halleland
Besse Maragos
Sara Schlauderaff
Brian “B.T.” Turner
Eric Brusven
Bess Heyer
Katie Martinson
Lorraine Schleicher
Cailin Wertish
Maria Bruun
Dan Higgins
DeeAnn McArdle
Barb Schuh
John Wilgers
Claire Carlson
Stanley L. Hubbard
Cristin McCormick
Brandon Schuh
Angeli Wishnow
Louie Clark
Kim Insley
Mary McGrory-Usset
Allan Share
Brandon Wishnow
Jeff Cotton
Shruti Jagannathan
Emmanuelle Mehta
Charles Shaw
John C. Cushing, Jr.
Anthea Johnson
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Patient Fifi surrounded by her family and medical team members
at Institut Jantung Negara, a Children’s HeartLink partner site in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo by Carissa Johnson
profile
Helping Parents Around the World
The Parent Education/Discharge Instructions (PEDI) include a
package of validated training tools for patients, families and nurses,
developed by Children’s HeartLink. With the help of a group of medical
volunteers from several U.S. institutions, Children’s HeartLink has been
gradually implementing PEDI at all of our partner hospitals. In the
past fiscal year, we trained 250 nurses in this curriculum and protocol at
Institut Jantung Negara in Malaysia, First Hospital of Lanzhou University
in China and Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Cardiac Sciences in India.
Before Children’s HeartLink implemented PEDI, Institut Jantung
Negara’s (IJN) two nurse liaisons educated parents about pre- and
post-operation instructions, but with more than 600 operations annually,
they were able to speak with fewer than 150 families.
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Involving the ward nurses in the process ensures that all patients
and their families will be reached and educated. Nurses at IJN believe
that teaching PEDI before the child is discharged will help parents feel
more comfortable about going home. Since incorporating PEDI in IJN’s
patient care process, all nurses have the knowledge to educate families at
admission, recovery and discharge.
Adlina, nicknamed Fifi, is a 3-year-old girl who was discharged
from IJN after a six-day stay in the hospital following an operation to
correct Tetralogy of Fallot. Suhayle, a nurse liaison, provided Fifi’s parents
the PEDI discharge instructions while Fifi watched quietly.
Her parents were happy to receive the instructions in their native
language, Malay, and stated the materials will be helpful when teaching
Fifi’s grandmother how to care for her while they are at work.
The Transformational Journey
The Thriving Partnership with Hospital de Base
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is a critical component of our work with Hospital de Base and with all of Children’s HeartLink’s
hospital partners. M&E practices bring accountability and transparency to the partnership relationship by building systems that
purposefully collect, analyze and report patient program and community outcomes.
But even more important, Children’s HeartLink’s M&E efforts empower every professional in the partnership to use information
for program planning, to take ownership of their team’s performance, to meaningfully improve their practices, to elevate the quality
of care delivered and to ultimately improve patient and program results.
“Our partnership with Children’s HeartLink has been an excellent
resource for growth, knowledge and quality improvement. The visits
from partner sites’ multidisciplinary teams are helpful in bringing in
discussions, classes and simulations that cause a change of vision and
behavior in our environment and staff. With that, our team’s desire
to grow and learn more each day increases.
The IQIC database allows us to find ways to reduce morbidity and
mortality through webinars and data collection. Children’s HeartLink
has an important role in making a stronger connection between our
unit and IQIC, instructing our team in ways to improve data collection
and statistics.
There is so much to be said about our partnership with Children’s
HeartLink, but it is absolutely important to mention how thankful
we are for having them with us in this journey. Without Children’s
HeartLink, we would not be where we are today.
We hope in the near future we can serve as a model for other
centers in the country who want to organize and evolve in the
care of children with heart disease.” Bruna Cury, R.N.,
nurse and international liaison, Hospital de Base,
São José do Rio Preto, Brazil
Children’s HeartLink has provided great opportunities for our staff,
including three nurses and one doctor who went to Minnesota for a
month to visit the Mayo Clinic and Children’s Hospital and Clinics
of Minnesota to learn and bring back ideas for improvement.
Nurses from Hospital de Base, a Children’s HeartLink partner site in São José do Rio Preto, Brazil,
enjoyed a ride in the Mayo Clinic helicopter.
dedication
Medical Volunteers
Amrita Institute of Medical
Sciences and Research Centre,
Kochi, India
Edwin Francis, M.D.
Mahesh Kappanayil, M.D.
K.H. Shine Kumar, M.D.
R. Krishna Kumar, M.D. Benedict Raj, M.D.
G.S. Sunil, M.D.
Balu Vaidyanathan, M.D. Associated Anesthesiologists,
St. Paul, MN, United States
Neil Derechin, M.D.
BC Children’s Hospital,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Sanjiv Karamchand Gandhi, M.D.
Derek Human, M.D.
Sandy Pitfield, M.D.
Birmingham Children’s
Hospital, Birmingham,
United Kingdom
David Barron, M.D.
Fiona Reynolds, M.D.
Oliver Stumper, M.D.
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Boston Children’s Hospital,
Boston, MA, United States
Melvin Almodovar, M.D.
Kathy Jenkins, M.D.
The Children’s Hospital at
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland,
OH, United States
Elumalai Appachi, M.D.
Children’s Hospitals and
Clinics of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN,
United States
David Dassenko, M.D.
Frank Moga, M.D.
David Overman, M.D.
Jennifer Snider, R.N.
Patsy Stinchfield, P.N.P.
Gillette Children’s Specialty
Healthcare, St. Paul, MN,
United States
Barbara Bor, R.N., C.I.C.
Gleneagles Hospital,
Singapore, Singapore
Sriram Shankar, M.D.
The Hospital for Sick
Children, Toronto,
ON, Canada
Fraser Golding, M.D.
Jeanette Guimond, R.N.
Cecilia Hyslop, R.N.
Jason Macartney, R.R.T.
Lauren Scavuzzo, R.N.
Steve Schwartz, M.D.
Glen Van Arsdell, M.D.
Rick Wray, R.N.
KK Women’s and Children’s
Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
Keng Yean Wong, M.D.
Lucile Packard Children’s
Hospital, Palo Alto, CA,
United States
Sandra Staveski, R.N., P.N.P.
Theresa Tacy, M.D.
Kristine Taylor, M.S.N., R.N.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester,
MN, United States
Grace Arteaga, M.D.
Lisa Belch, R.N.
Joseph A. Dearani, M.D.
Roxann Pike, M.D.
Edward Schneider, R.R.T.
National Cancer Centre
Singapore, Singapore,
Singapore
Guat Ling Teo, R.N.
National University Hospital,
Singapore, Singapore
Nicola Ngiam, M.D.
Mary Tan, R.N.
Normandale Community
College, Minneapolis, MN,
United States
Jeff Paurus, R.N.
Seattle Children’s Hospital,
Seattle, WA, United States
Harris Baden, M.D.
Lynn Chernick, M.N., R.N.
Thomas Jones, M.D.
Mark Lewin, M.D.
Susanne Matthews, R.N.
Michael McMullan, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Molly Ruddy, R.N.
Swedish Pediatric Specialty
Care, Seattle, WA,
United States
Peter Hesslein, M.D.
University of Minnesota
Amplatz Children’s Hospital,
Minneapolis, MN,
United States
Paul Paulisich, R.N.
Lee Pyles, M.D.
Karin Robeck, R.N.
Shanthi Sivanandam, M.D.
James St. Louis, M.D.
Vadamalayan Hospitals,
Madurai, India
B.R.J. Kannan, M.D.
Safdarjung Hospital,
Delhi, India
Rani Gera, M.D.
Retired
E. Marsha Elixson, R.N.,
Lilburn, GA, United States
Pam Sagan, R.N., Los Altos
Hills, CA, United States
Sriram Shankar, M.D.
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Giving Kids a Fighting Chance in Vietnam
Children’s HeartLink could not fulfill our mission without the
remarkable dedication and continued support of our medical
volunteers, who represent some of the finest medical institutions in the
world. Two of those shining volunteers are from medical institutions
based in Singapore: Sriram Shankar, M.D., from Gleneagles Hospital
and Mary Tan, R.N., from National University Hospital.
Dr. Shankar, a pediatric cardiac surgeon, has been working with
Nhi Dong 1 in Vietnam since the partnership between Children’s
HeartLink and the hospital began in 2008. He travels to Nhi Dong 1
on a regular basis to mentor, train and support the development of
Nhi Dong 1’s pediatric cardiac surgical team. Dr. Shankar and
his colleagues have empowered this team and strengthened their
knowledge, skills and practice so that they can perform more complex
procedures such as patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) ligation, ventricular
septal defect (VSD) repairs and arterial switches. Under his guidance,
the team has delivered great outcomes and built a talented team of
professionals dedicated to Nhi Dong 1’s future. Dr. Shankar proudly
noted that “the Nhi Dong 1 cardiac program has a very promising
future as the doctors, nurses and administrators are talented and
focused in building a great center.”
Nurse educator Mary Tan, R.N., has generously donated her time as a
Children’s HeartLink medical volunteer since 2009. She has enhanced
nursing education and practice at Nhi Dong 1 in many ways, including
designing and implementing a three-day basic workshop that prepares
nurses for the American Heart Association’s Basic Life Support (BLS)
and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) training courses. These
areas of training have not previously been a part of the curriculum for
pediatric cardiac nurses in Vietnam. Ms. Tan has a deep commitment
to this work and stated, “I volunteer because it is an opportunity
for me to continue teaching outside of my country and to help
Vietnamese children.”
The Nhi Dong 1 pediatric cardiac program
has advanced tremendously since the
beginning their partnership with
Children’s HeartLink and the
involvement of medical volunteers
from Singapore. The number of
children treated per year has
increased to nearly 300 surgical
cases and more than 800
interventional cases in 2012.
Nhi Dong 1 has also reduced
mortality and infections.
Mary Tan, R.N.
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Pediatric cardiologist, Mahesh Kappanayil, M.D.,
performs an echocardiogram on an infant in the
PCICU after an operation at AIMS in Kochi,
India. Photo by Vicky Lakshmanan
Board of Directors
Founder
Joseph Kiser, M.D.
Chair
Molly Joseph,
UnitedHealth Group
Vice Chair
Emmett J. McMahon,
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi
Medical Directors
Joseph A. Dearani, M.D.,
Mayo Clinic
David M. Overman, M.D.,
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics
of Minnesota
Secretary
Thomas J. Kigin,
Minnesota Public Radio
Treasurer
Ajay Gupta,
Ernst & Young LLP
Members
Thomas L. Armitage, M.D.,
Medtronic, Inc.
Thomas Bach,
OptumRx
Franck Gougeon,
Giverny Investments LLC
Mark Rosen,
WCCO-TV
Guillaume Bastiaens,
Cargill, retired
Keith Halleland,
Halleland Habicht PA
Robert Rosenbaum,
Dorsey & Whitney
Bridget Duffy, M.D.,
ExperiaHealth
Tom Jollie,
PadillaCRT
Keith Sherman,
Freeman + Leonard
John R. Finnegan Jr., Ph.D.,
University of Minnesota School
of Public Health
Besse D. Maragos,
Schilling Travel
Directors Emeriti
Susan H. Gebelein,
Savannah Consulting
Geoff Martha,
Medtronic, Inc.
David Andreas,
Community Leader
Thomas A. Keller, III,
Moss & Barnett PA
Children’s HeartLink Staff
President
Elizabeth Perlich Sweeney
Financial Director
Barb Simonson
Vice President
of Development
and Marketing
Carrie Ellis
Vice President of
International Programs
International
Programs Analyst
In-Country India
Consultant
Bistra Zheleva
Emily Dale, M.P.H., C.H.E.S.
Veeralakshmi (Veera) Rajasekhar
International
Programs Manager
Office Manager and
International Programs
Associate
Marketing and
Communications Manager
Andreas Tsakistos
International
Programs Manager
Carissa Johnson
Helga Radio
Development Manager
Events Manager
Jessica Smith-Schuh
Development Associate
Jennifer Jacobsen Giese
International
Programs Advisor
John Cushing, Jr., M.H.A.
Lisa Rothstein
Erin Murley
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International Advisory Board
The Children’s HeartLink International Advisory Board consists of experts in health care, public affairs and international
development who provide Children’s HeartLink with expertise and consultation in areas such as strategic planning,
capacity building, international relations and medical diplomacy.
J. Brian Atwood, Chair
Mr. Atwood is Professor and Chair of Global Policy Programs
at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public
Affairs. He honed his powers of persuasion as a diplomat in Cote
d’Ivoire and Spain, and as an official in the Carter and Clinton
administrations. He served for six years as Administrator of the
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Chair
of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation during both Clinton terms. In 2001,
he served on U.S. Secretary General Kofi Annan’s Panel on Peace Operations and was
the only American on the 10-member “Brahimi” panel which recommended major
changes in the U.N.’s peacekeeping and peace-building operations. From 2002 to 2011,
he served as Dean of the Humphrey School. He left that post when asked by Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton to represent the United States on the OECD’s Development
Assistance Committee. During his tenure as Chair of the DAC, Professor Atwood
is credited with renewing and expanding the committee’s global commitment to
alleviating poverty in the developing world.
Aldo Castañeda, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Castañeda is the Founder of the Pediatric Cardiac Surgical
Unit of Guatemala and is Pro­fessor Emeritus of Surgery at
Harvard Medical School. After receiving his training and being
on the staff of the Department of Surgery at the University of
Minnesota from 1958 through 1971, Dr. Castañeda was recruited
to Children’s Hospital Boston and served for 20 years as Chief
of Cardiovascular Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief. Dr. Castañeda received the World
Heart Foundation Humanitarian Award in 2004, and in 2006, Dr. Castañeda was
inducted into the Pediatric Cardiology Hall of Fame.
Kathy Jenkins, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Jenkins is currently a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard
Medical School and holds the Kobren Family Chair for Patient
Safety and Quality. She is a faculty member in the Department
of Cardiology and serves as Senior Vice President and Chief
Safety and Quality Officer at Children’s Hospital Boston.
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Bongani Mayosi, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Mayosi is a researcher, teacher and clinician in internal
medicine and cardiology who currently serves as the 7th Professor
and Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of
Cape Town and Chief Physician at Groote Schuur Hospital in
Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Mayosi has published widely in
both local and international journals and books on various topics
related to cardiovascular medicine. His academic work focuses on heart diseases of
the poor, including cardiomyopathy, tuberculous pericarditis and rheumatic fever.
Srinath Reddy, M.D.
Dr. Reddy is President of the Public Health Foundation of
India. Until recently, he headed the Department of Cardiology
at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Dr. Reddy
has been involved in several major international and national
research studies including the INTERSALT global study of
blood pressure and electrolytes, INTERHEART global study
on risk factors of myocardial infarction and national collaborative studies on
epidemiology of coronary heart disease and community control of rheumatic heart
disease. He is Coordinator of the Initiative for Cardiovascular Health Research in
the Developing Countries (IC Health), a global partnership program that promotes
research for prevention of cardiovascular diseases in developing countries. He has
served on many WHO expert panels and is on the board of the World Heart Federation.
Richard Smith, M.D.
Dr. Smith served as Chief Executive of UnitedHealth Europe,
a subsidiary of the UnitedHealth Group that works with public
health systems in Europe. He is currently Director of the
UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative, a program with the
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute that has created 11
centers in low- and middle-income countries that work to counter
chronic disease.
Amrita Institute of Medical
Sciences pediatric cardiac
nurses attending their PEDI
training graduation ceremony.
Photo by Vicky Lakshmanan
Tommy Thompson
Mr. Thompson is a former Secretary of Health and Human
Services and four-term Governor of Wisconsin. He was a
partner at the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
from 2005 through early 2012.
Daniel B. Wright, Ph.D.
Dr. Wright served at the U.S. Treasury Department as Managing
Director for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED)
where he provided strategic counsel to the Secretary of Treasury.
Dr. Wright was also formerly Senior Vice President and China
practice head of the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy
firm based in Washington, DC. He is Founder, President and CEO of GreenPoint Group, using his 26 years of China experience to build bridges
between people, resources and public policy.
at Children’s HeartLink,
we give kids a fighting chance.
The biggest fight starts with the smallest heart
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Financial Health
Children’s HeartLink finished our fiscal year especially strong with more than 11 percent growth in revenue,
despite continuing global economic challenges. Eighty-one percent of our expenses were directly related to
program delivery.
Statements of Activities At June 30, 2013 and 2012
Unrestricted
2013
temporarily
restricted
Unrestricted
2012
temporarily
restricted
Total
Total
$785,747
$245,000
$1,030,747
$298,751
$180,030
$478,781
Revenue and other support
Contributions
Donated goods and services
475,843
475,843
458,229
458,229
Special events revenue
822,552
822,552
898,350
898,350
(177,468)
(177,468)
(172,622)
(172,622)
Interest and other income
3,529
3,529
3,061
3,061
Satisfaction of restrictions
376,920
(376,920)
0
286,287
(286,287)
0
$2,287,123
$(131,920)
$2,155,203
$1,772,056
$(106,257)
$1,665,799
$1,494,852
$1,494,852
$1,366,297
$1,366,297
94,556
94,556
74,344
74,344
Special events and activities
106,208
106,208
91,520
91,520
Other fundraising
199,890
199,890
188,139
188,139
$1,895,506
$1,895,506
$1,720,300
$1,720,300
Less direct benefits to donors
Total
Expense
Program expense
Management and general
Total
Change in net assets
391,617
(131,920)
259,697
51,756
(106,257)
(54,501)
Net assets (beginning of year)
903,825
395,044
1,298,869
852,069
501,301
1,353,370
$1,295,442
$263,124
$1,558,566
$903,825
$395,044
$1,298,869
Net assets (end of year)
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A patient at Nhi Dong 1 in
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Photo by Bistra Zheleva
Statements of Financial Position At June 30, 2013 and 2012
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents
$1,534,351
$1,225,509
55,186
21,523
8,533
18,689
162,616
164,049
$1,760,686
$1,429,770
$35,405
$16,082
16,715
14,819
Deferred revenue
150,000
100,000
Total liabilities
$202,120
$130,901
$1,295,442
$903,825
263,124
395,044
Contributions and other receivables
Prepaid expenses and other assets
Property and equipment, net
Total assets
Liabilities
Accounts payable
Accrued payroll and benefit liabilities
Net assets
Unrestricted
Temporarily restricted
Total net assets
$1,558,566 $1,298,869
Total liabilities and net assets
$1,760,686
Expenses by Activity
81% Program expenses
14% Fundraising
5% Management
$1,429,770
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