“It’s Great to be Alive

...and to Help Others”

Our “Heart to Heart” Visiting Program is staffed by trained, accredited Chapter 30 members who devote their time each week to visiting heart patients and caregivers at each of our hospitals.  Patients are visited in our hospital’s Cath Lab, patient’s rooms, surgery waiting areas, and the Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, where they are offered compassionate words of hope, comfort and encouragement from experienced-based, dedicated and caring individuals who have “been there, done that” when it comes to various heart procedures.  These visitors truly live out the Mended Hearts motto.

Working with the blessing and valued support of the cardiac physicians and our hospitals, our visiting volunteers do their part to produce positive patient outcomes for heart patients.  Mended Hearts visitors bring personalized support for heart patients facing surgery, and are a positive influence in assisting recovering heart patients and their caregivers to establish and maintain realistic post-surgery lifestyle expectations and modifications. 

Our visitors also encourage new heart patients and family members to consider the many benefits of joining an established cardiac support group...like Dallas Chapter 30 of Mended Hearts, Inc. for continuing support, education and assistance.  Patients often have questions concerning “limits and adjustments” to their life following a heart procedure, so they can truly benefit from the support of caring individuals who have traveled the road on which they are about to embark.  Communication and education are the keys to understanding and establishing lifestyle changes following heart procedures.  This information, freely offered to both patients and caregivers during their hospital stay by our accredited visitors, can provide tremendous relief to ease anxiety and calm frayed nerves that are often present before, during and after a heart procedure.

Nationally, Mended Hearts trained and accredited visitors speak with over 175,000 heart patients in more than 460 hospitals.  Dallas Chapter 30 hospital visitors routinely speak with over 2000 heart patients and caregivers each year at our three hospitals, and that number continues to grow every year.  We are very proud that we have provided this valuable service in the communities that we have faithfully served for over 37 years.  We continue to be dedicated to reaching out to help others in need.