There are more than 180,000 Canadian children and adults with congenital heart defects who need your help.

CCHA For life - Forum The Canadian Congenital Heart Alliance (CCHA) is a volunteer-run registered charitable organization made up of patients with a congenital heart defect, their friends, families, and the medical community. With your support, we aim to improve the quality of care for these patients, many of whom require lifelong expert care.

Thanks to the Heart Beats Children’s Society of Calgary, CCHA is featured in two more articles in their terrific newsletter Keeping the Beat.   There is an article about CCHA’s Beat Retreat camp on page 10 and an article about camp …[more]

The Adult Congenital Heart Association (ACHA) in the U.S is hosting two webinars in January: Post-Mustard and Senning in the adult CHD patient, and Eisenmenger Syndrome in the ACHD patient. Please click on the PDFs for more information, and the …[more]

Dear CCHA supporter, With 2011 coming to a close, we want to let you know what we’ve been up to. It’s been a busy restructuring year for us – revisiting where we’ve been successful and not as successful, and where …[more]

On Saturday May 14, 2011, Team CCHA and The Slow Pokes walked in the Cardiac Health Foundation of Canada’s “Walk of Life”.  Our goal was to raise $6,000 for the Canadian Congenital Heart Alliance; to fund important programs such as …[more]

Maude Abbott (1868-1940) was a Canadian doctor and was one of Canada’s earliest female medical graduates and an expert on congenital heart disease. She was one of the first women to obtain a bachelor’s degree in arts from McGill University. …[more]

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