Our Accredited Visiting program provides peer support to patients and caregivers upon diagnosis of heart disease, pre-surgery or medical procedure, during a hospital stay, during recovery, and any time support is needed.
Our trained volunteers make more than 200,000 peer connections each year. Accredited Visitors are patients, caregivers or parents themselves and listen and share information about living with heart disease from the perspective of someone who understands because they have been there.
About Accredited Visiting?
- How Does It Work?
- Patients who have heart disease, caregivers of adult patients, and parents of children who have heart disease are trained to visit.
- Patients, caregivers or parents are visited (given peer support) to help reduce anxiety, answer non-medical questions, give hope, and inspire
- Visits can be in-person, by phone, by email, by video chat or online.
Learn more about Accredited Visiting HERE
Who Can Visit?
- Patients who have any type of cardiovascular/heart disease, caregivers of adult patients, parents of children who have heart disease including congenital heart disease
- Members of The Mended Hearts, Inc. Join Us
- People over age 18
- People who have been through Accredited Visitor Training
- To find out about our next training, email info@mendedhearts.org
Who is Visited?
- Patients who have any type of cardiovascular/heart disease, caregivers of adult patients, parents of children who have heart disease including congenital heart disease
- People in the hospital
- People recovering at home
- People who have just received a heart disease diagnosis for themselves, a loved one or their child
Call the Heartline 1-844-HEART87
Become a Visitor
Videos
Hear from The Mended Hearts, Inc. founder and Father of Heart Surgery, Dr. Dwight E. Harken, his son and heart surgeon, Dr. Alden Harken, and cardiologist and interventionalist, Dr. Jeffrey Marshal about the power of peer support and our Accredited Visiting Program, My Heart Visit.
Improving Lives Through Peer Support
