Providing fully-funded heart screenings to Kansas City’s underserved youth in partnership with a local Kansas City organization.  Our screenings include all of the tests vital to analyzing the health of a child’s heart: blood pressure, electrocardiogram, and an echocardiogram. The Foundation has already held two events that have benefited over 200 children in the Kansas City area.

Children’s Mercy Max Ward Endowed Fund provides much needed assistance to children and families suffering from congenital heart defects, such as medical equipment and supplies for home use, adaptive strollers, cribs, assistance with funeral expenses and transportation costs for travel to other centers of excellence. Over the last six years, with the help of our sponsors, we were able to donate $300,000 to help the patients and families at Children’s Mercy.