Timeline Highlights
Our work to fund groundbreaking research, global collaboration, and holistic well-being initiatives is critically important.
In the U.S. alone, Congenital Heart Alliance of Cincinnati (CHAoC) investments in research and development have helped reduce the premature death rate of children with congenital heart disease (CHD) by 37%. With an effort to provide generous funding for life-changing initiatives, we are striving to increase that percentage even more!
Scratch Golf expands to two additional cities! Scratch Golf Austin is in partnership with the CHAoC, First Tee – Greater Austin, and Dell Children’s Medical Center. Scratch Golf Minneapolis is in partnership with CHAoC, First Tee – Minnesota, and University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital.
The Maggie Baumann Memorial Scholarship is established in honor of her compassionate, loyal, and tenacious spirit. Maggie was a CHD warrior with a passion for healthcare education and patient advocacy. Maggie’s legacy will continue through this scholarship by helping to fund higher education for CHD patients interested in the healthcare field.
The annual Heart & Sole Walk is established with CHAoC, in support of fundraising to overcoming congenital heart disease.
CHAoC supports the compelling documentary “Building the Field,” an exploration of the unresolved complexities of lifelong health care and mental health issues for children and adults living with congenital heart disease.
Scratch Golf expands to New Orleans, in partnership with the Henry Auction Foundation, First Tee – Greater New Orleans, and The Heart Center at Children’s Hospital New Orleans and Ochsner Children’s.
CHAoC salutes the generosity of the Cintas Corporation in helping to establish the Take Charge AED Program, which provides 20 AED units installed in Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, and Southeast Indiana schools.
CHAoC supports the production of “The Heart Within,” a documentary that follows the revealing and motivational stories of families dealing with CHD.
CHAoC helps support the implementation of practiced cardiac emergency response plans for sudden cardiac arrest in schools, through the national program called Project ADAM.
(Dr. T. Kimball and Dr. S. Batlivala)
Partnering with the Heart Institute at CCHMC and the “First Tee” program, CHAoC supports the mental, physical, and social well-being skills learned through golf.
Handheld technologies are developed in collaboration with Information Technologies at CCHMC and Apple Inc., to enhance patient cardiac care and communication between families and cardiology providers.
(Dr. J. Lynn Jefferies)
Primary seed investment provided by CHAoC for the National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative — a network of over 60 pediatric cardiology care centers working together with families, clinicians, researchers, and patients to dramatically improve the outcomes for children with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) and other cardiovascular disease.
(Dr. R. Beekman)
CHAoC gifts heart-shaped, therapeutic pillows to patients after open-heart surgeries at CCHMC.
Vascular Ultrasound Research Imaging System
CCHMC
(Dr. T. Kimball)
Camp Joyful Hearts and Family Camp at Camp Joy in Clarksville, OH
(Dr. N. Madsen)
Bicuspid Aortic Valve Study
CCHMC
(Dr. W. Benson)
Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Research
CCHMC
(Dr. K. Wright)
CHAoC patron and trustee Marge Schott extends generous support with the first Reds Rally event.
CHAoC funds new, state-of-the-art X-ray tools for CCHMC.
With specialized forethought, 88% of CHAoC’s expenditures are allocated to the incomes of doctors, nurses, and technicians specific to CCHMC’s Cardiology Division.
CHAoC funds X-ray machines, a precursor to cardiac angiography, for CCHMC.
With the help of trailblazing CCHMC researchers Dr. S. Kaplan, Dr. J. Helmsworth, and Dr. L Clark, the first functional heart-lung machine is developed, opening the door to open-heart surgery (first used in 1957).
CHAoC begins to provide wages for doctors, nurses, and technicians at the newly developed Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) cardiac clinic.
With an initial bequest of $200, Children’s Heart Association of Cincinnati (CHAoC) is established with the help of pioneering pediatricians, Dr. R. Lyons and Dr. L. Rauh.
