Creating Sustainable Programs.
Over the past three plus decades Gift of Life Programs have saved the lives of almost 10,000 children. This has been accomplished through the efforts of thousands of doctors and nurses, Rotarians and hundreds of dedicated volunteers worldwide.

In the past I have written about the positive results of collaboration. Whether it is between nurses and doctors, or Rotarians and hospital administrators, or caring volunteers and their young Gift of Life patients, …
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The Dominican Republic is a small Latin American country in the Greater Antilles archipelago, due west of Puerto Rico and east of Cuba and Jamaica, on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. It was there that Christopher Columbus landed when he "discovered" America in 1492. [read more]

January of 2000 will forever be a date to remember in the Dominican Republic. It was the beginning of the Santo Domingo Pediatric Cardiovascular Program. [read more]

The International Children’s Heart Foundation was invited to visit the Hospital Infantil in Santiago for the first time in February 2006. Our 18-member team of volunteer doctors and nurses operated on 23 children. After that first trip, we made a commitment … [read more]

After a successful five-year program working with Heart Care International to provide annual pediatric heart teams, CEDIMAT and Heart Care Dominicana felt that the establishment of a full time indigenous pediatric heart program at CEDIMAT was an investment they were ready to make. [read more]