Events + News

Camp Joy has provided years of great educational, physical and social opportunity for heart patients at CCHMC. Now it’s time for the adults with congenital heart disease to have a day of their own!
 
Join us August 26th for the Second Annual Adult CHD Survivors Patient Camp! Registration is limited to 40 participants so don’t delay!
 
Click here to register

2016 Adult CHD Campers

The Children’s Heart Association of Cincinnati would like to thank Xavier Center for Innovation, Xavier Digital Innovation, Film and Television Program, and the Xavier Television Association for providing the Kennedy Auditorium for the premier of “The Heart Within.”

The Adult CHD Survivors of Cincinnati are hosting a fundraiser on Monday, February 27th at the LaRosa’s located at 2411 Boudinot Avenue. This Slice of the Pie fundraiser will benefit the Children’s Heart Association of Cincinnati. Bring in this flyer to have portion of your bill donated.

The Heart Institute recently shared the story of CHD survivor Joan Schuman meeting Dr. James Helmsworth 52 years after he saved her life by performing the first successful Senning operation in the U.S.

We continue to remember Dr. Helmsworth and are thankful for the gift he gave to Joan and others like her who were born with congenital heart disease. He was a true Cincinnati treasure.

Read the story:
Reconnecting 52 Years After the First Successful Senning Procedure in the United States

The Children’s Heart Association of Cincinnati is thrilled to be participating in Cincinnati Magazine’s Cincinnati Gives 2016 Challenge!

The Cincinnati Gives Challenge is a fundraising competition hosted by Cincinnati Magazine where charities compete to raise the most money with the top teams winning cash prizes from Cincinnati Magazine.

Please support us in this campaign by clicking HERE!

CONTEST PRIZES

• The team that raises the most during the Challenge wins a $15,000 donation
• Second place receives $6,000
• Third place receives $3,000
 

BONUS CHALLENGES

There will be Bonus Challenges each week where the charities can win thousands of dollars for their cause. And, the best part of the Challenge is that even if you don’t win any of the grand prize money, you get to keep the money you raise during the campaign.

GIVING TUESDAY: November 29
The charity to raise the most online today, Giving Tuesday wins $1,000.

BONUS CHALLENGE #1: November 29 – December 6th
The top 3 charities to raise the most money online this week will each win $500.

BONUS CHALLENGE #2: December 6th – December 13th
The first 100 online donations of $10 get a $10 match.

BONUS CHALLENGE #3: December 13th – December 20th
The two charities to raise the most online this week will play Rock Paper Scissors. The charity that wins will get $600 and the charity that does not win gets $400.

BONUS CHALLENGE #4: December 20th – December 27th
Every charity to raise at least $500 online this week will get entered to win $500. For every $500 you raise you get an additional entry to win. And there will be 3 winners.

YOU’RE INVITED!

Adult CHD Survivors of Cincinnati Holiday Party
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
6:30 PM
CCHMC Room D2.28

All ACHD patients, family, and staff are invited to come together to celebrate the holidays! Food, drinks and childcare will be provided, but all are encourage to bring guests and their favorite holiday dish! Santa hats and ugly sweaters encouraged but not required. We will be creating handmade holiday cards for in house patients/families and CCHMC staff and holiday movies will be shown throughout night. We hope you will join us!

Please RSVP by Dec. 12th by calling or emailing Danielle at (513) 884-0601 or Danielle.Fritsch@cchmc.org.

2016 was a very busy year for CHAoC and we’d love to tell you about it!

If you didn’t receive our newsletter, it means we don’t have you in our email database. Please take a moment to enter your email address on the home page of our website to begin receiving our newsletter, as well as information about upcoming events. But don’t worry if you missed this year’s edition, you can still see it by clicking HERE.

Thank you for your continued support! We look forward to more great work in 2017!

The Children’s Heart Association of Cincinnati is thrilled to be participating in Cincinnati Magazine’s Cincinnati Gives 2016 Challenge!

The Cincinnati Gives Challenge is a fundraising competition hosted by Cincinnati Magazine where charities compete to raise the most money with the top teams winning cash prizes from Cincinnati Magazine.

Everything launches on Tuesday, November 29th at 12:00pm ET and runs through Tuesday, December 27th at 1:59:59pm ET.
 

Please support us in this campaign by clicking HERE!

CONTEST PRIZES

• The team that raises the most during the Challenge wins a $15,000 donation
• Second place receives $6,000
• Third place receives $3,000
 

BONUS CHALLENGES

There will be Bonus Challenges each week where the charities can win thousands of dollars for their cause. And, the best part of the Challenge is that even if you don’t win any of the grand prize money, you get to keep the money you raise during the campaign.

GIVING TUESDAY: November 29
The charity to raise the most online today, Giving Tuesday wins $1,000.

BONUS CHALLENGE #1: November 29 – December 6th
The top 3 charities to raise the most money online this week will each win $500.

BONUS CHALLENGE #2: December 6th – December 13th
The first 100 online donations of $10 get a $10 match.

BONUS CHALLENGE #3: December 13th – December 20th

The two charities to raise the most online this week will play Rock Paper Scissors. The charity that wins will get $600 and the charity that does not win gets $400.

BONUS CHALLENGE #4: December 20th – December 27th
Every charity to raise at least $500 online this week will get entered to win $500. For every $500 you raise you get an additional entry to win. And there will be 3 winners.

Our Inaugural Heart Hero Golf Classic was a huge success! Our 74 golfers enjoyed a beautiful golf course at Heritage Club and an absolutely perfect sunny 84 degree mid-October day!

The golf course spotlighted our generous hole sponsors, “Did You Know?” facts about CHD, and touching stories of some children and adults living with CHD.

Approximately 10 adult patients joined us for dinner and Kamren Colson and Adam Greber of KCD, Inc., Multidisciplined Creative Source, premiered a spectacular video they captured from the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Patient Camp that CHAoC sponsored this past August, which featured many of these inspiring patients.

We’d like to extend a huge heartfelt thank you to all those who helped make the event a success, especially our event sponsors listed below:

Lunch sponsors:
Medtronic
Reconstructive Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Dr. Matthew Langenderfer

Beverage sponsor:
Stagnaro Distributing

Hold-In-On sponsor:
McCluskey Chevrolet

Contest sponsors:
Denison Family Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation
IFF
Robbins, Kelly, Patterson & Tucker, L.P.A.

Hole sponsors:
The Adult CHD Survivors of Cincinnati
The Balzano Family | In Honor of our Heart Hero
Barbara Walker, Ph.D., Performance Psychologist Center for Human Performance
Brayden the Fearless
Cassady Schiller CPA’s & Advisors
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
The Farber Family, In Loving Memory of Bruce Wright Cochran, Son of Jim & Patty Cochran, Wyoming, OH
GBBN Architects, Inc.
Hyperquake
James Cochran, In Loving Memory of Bruce Wright Cochran
Janet Davis, Coldwell Banker West Shell
The Karageorges Family, In Honor of our Heart Hero, Callie Karageorges
KCD, Inc., Multidisciplined Creative Source
Main Line Supply Co.
NVR, Inc.
Patient Educational Media Systems, Michael Katchman
Paycor
Wieland Builders, LLC, Jack Wieland
The Wunderle Family

Heart Hero Golf Classic Photos