Safe Housing United States Project #67896

Recovery Housing for Heart Transplant Patients!

by Heartfelt Help Foundation

Recovery Housing for Heart Transplant Patients!

Project Report | Feb 17, 2026
Financial Recovery is Linked to Physical Recovery

By D Redeker | Founder and CEO

Through our unique two programs, we are ensuring that heart transplant patients in Northern California's financial recovery matched their physical recovery. We believe that financial stability is linked to family stability, which leads to the stability of their donated heart. Heart transplant patients in Northern California have no other resources other than Heartfelt Help Foundation to turn to for assistance. We innovate solutions to problems that no one else is endeavoring to solve.

Since financial stability is linked to organ stability, we must look at the patient and their family holistically, working with them to ensure that housing is maintained, car payments are up to date, food is on the table and that they have the ability to pay their co-payment for their medications. We do exactly that, working with each heart transplant family to help them regain their financial footing after potentially months away from work without an income caring for themselves or their child.

Our newest family is an older pediatric family. Both of their kids were born with different congenital heart defects requiring different interventional life saving treatments. The day the younger brother was discharged from one Bay Area hospital, the other brother received the call for his new heart. Mom has been by her oldest son's bedside every day for two years. The financial, emotional and physical sacrifices that parents make for their heart warrior kids are unfathomable. Your generosity will ensure that we are there for them to support them through every step of their financial recovery.

Our foundational program is our lodging program that helps heart transplant patients here in Northern California with their temporary recovery housing when their insurance doesn't cover it. This cost alone can be financially crippling to a family already living paycheck to paycheck. Our lodging program ensures that no financially challenged heart transplant patient needs to worry about how they will afford this temporary near hospital housing.

Heartfelt Help Foundation is still the only nonprofit in Northern California helping transplant patients and their families in this manner. With your support we can continue and expand this important work.

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