Our Chapter Objectives

We are heart patient and caregiver volunteers, adults young and old, providing support and hope to patients and their caregivers from the diagnosis of heart disease through treatment and beyond.

The Bellingham Chapter of Mended Hearts normally meets monthly to offer support and information to all heart patients in our community.  Our speakers are cardiologists, heart surgeons, nutritionists, and other health care professionals who offer insights into improving our heart health. 

For more information please go to our Contact Page to send a message or contact our message line at 360-788-6928.

Greetings From Our Chapter President

Dave Huber

The renewed life in spring matches the renewed life with PeaceHealth as we restart volunteer work and ask for your help.

Happy Spring to Mended Hearts members, family, and friends,

Spring is a special time of year that brings a renewal of our environment. It’s like a fresh start that holds promise for the coming year. It’s a season I always look forward to.

As you know, PeaceHealth is starting a phased return for Mended Hearts to resume activities at the hospital. It seems poetic to me this new start with Peace Health coincides with the new start we have with spring. PeaceHealth is extremely happy to have us resume providing the support and encouragement for heart patients and their families. They have very high confidence in us through the patient benefits our efforts provide. That confidence has created what I will call a reservoir of trust. The reservoir is full to the brim as a result of the efforts of Mended Hearts and the solid partnership we have with PeaceHealth.

The maintenance of the reservoir is clearly very important for both Mended Hearts and PeaceHealth. That maintenance however involves a group effort. The group I’m referring to is the visiting volunteers, the Board of Directors, the team that handles the monthly meeting organization including greeters, sign-in and set-up. These are roles we need more members like you to provide help and I’m appealing to each of you to seriously consider helping us keep the reservoir full. Your help will be greatly appreciated. If you have an interest or questions, please contact me directly.

Have a great spring!!!!

 
Young Mended Hearts

Since April, 2015, we've been inviting all young heart patients (18 to 55) and their families to join other young heart patients and their families for an informal monthly get-together to discuss the common issues, challenges and successes of being a young heart patient.​

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Please join us.  Follow us on Facebook!

    Young Mended Hearts of NorthWest Washington

For more information about Young Mended Hearts, please contact Jessica Morton at rogers.jar@gmail.com

or Dianna Konrad at dmk9@sbcglobal.net

Are You Having Open Heart
Surgery Soon?
Before You Do, Would You Like to Talk with
Someone Who Has?

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You can get information and questions answered about what it’s like to go through open heart surgery by watching this video featuring two Mended Heart volunteers who share their experiences as open heart surgery patients.  You can also speak with either of these volunteers by contacting them through our “Contact” page.

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Our sincere thanks to PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center for their encouragement and production of this video. 

Awards

Together, PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center and Mended Hearts Bellingham are making a difference in our community by supporting heart patients and their caregiver families.  These efforts have been acknowledged by the international headquarters of The Mended Hearts, Inc., Albany, GA, with the following awards:

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Dianna Konrad

2020 Western Region Volunteer of the Year

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PeaceHealth St. Joseph’s Medical Center

2018 National Hospital of the Year

PeaceHealth St. Joseph’s Medical Center

2017 Regional Hospital of the Year

PeaceHealth St. Joseph’s Medical Center

2016 Regional Hospital of the Year

Mended Hearts, Bellingham

2015 President’s Cup Award

For outstanding service in our community

PeaceHealth St. Joseph’s Medical Center

2014 Regional Hospital of the Year

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The Western Region of Mended Hearts chapters includes the states of California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii

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Bequests and Gifts

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We sincerely appreciate the thoughtfulness and generosity behind the bequests and gifts given to our chapter.  This helps us remember and honor those special people while continuing our promise to support all heart patients and their families in our community.

The Ingram Family, Shirley McCraw, The Bishop Family and The Dircks Family, all close friends of Charlie Heinemann and his family, have made a generous gift to our Mended Hearts chapter in memory of John Heinemann.

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Scott Swanson presented a generous gift to our Mended Hearts chapter as a bequest from the estate of his parents, Philip and Joyce Swanson.

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The estate of Stephen James Brewster made a significant donation to the PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Foundation in honor of Mended Hearts, Bellingham.  A cath lab patient room in St. Joseph’s Cardiovascular Center will be named:

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Stephen James Brewster

In Honor of Mended Hearts

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