Heart-Net.org
Title
World Heart Foundation - Organization
Description
The mission of the World Heart Foundation is to decrease the global inequity in the delivery of high-quality health care by improving the access that the underserved have to cardiac surgery. Its initial efforts focus on, but are not limited to, providing heart surgery to the children and young adults suffering from congenital heart anomalies in developing countries.
The World Heart Foundation, established in 1999, is a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, DC. Its leadership consists of an international assemblage of eminent cardiothoracic surgeons. Officers, including a A Chief Executive Officer, a President, an Executive Director, a Board of Directors, and an International Advisory Board manage the Foundation. It maintains close affiliations with the medical professional societies that represent the cardiothoracic surgery specialty and with humanitarian organizations that aid in the delivery of heart surgery to those in need.
The coordination of the efforts of a network of affiliated humanitarian organizations, volunteer professionals, health care and industry partners, and institutions at the point of care to deliver resources and volunteer teams of medical professionals when and where they are needed. To improve the efficacy of this approach, the World Heart Foundation plans to establish regional hubs to serve as treatment centers.
Contact
- Heart-Net c/o CTSNet
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- Baltimore MD
- United States 21287-4618
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- +1.9999999999
