Save a Child's Heart's (SACH)

As long as children with rheumatic and congenital heart disease around the world continue to suffer without access to care, we will treat children, train medical professionals and raise the level of pediatric heart care worldwide, from our heart in I ediatric heart care worldwide, from our heart in Israel. From the children and parents with the courage to trust, to the doctors with courage to heal, we are Save a Child’s Heart. Save a Child's Heart came into being in 1995 when an Ethiopian doctor contacted Dr. Ami Cohen after being referred to him by a mutual friend. He asked for Dr. Cohen’s help with two children in desperate need of heart surgery. Ami said yes and organized flights approval from the hospital and housed the children in his home during their recovery. 3Following in the footsteps of our founders, the second and third generation of our medical professionals are dedicated to the life-saving work of Save a Child’s Heart. Despite the challenges of 2020, we kept our promise that as long as children with rheumatic and congenital heart disease around the world continue to suffer without access to care, we will treat them, train medical professionals and raise the level of pediatric heart care worldwide. Our dream continues with the opening of the Sylvan Adams Children’s Hospital and the Ida Cabakoff International Cardiac Care Center for Save a Child's Heart in Israel. ...view more