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Baptist to Reunite Heart Transplant Patients and Donor Families

On National Donor Day, Friday, Feb. 14, Baptist Heart Institute and Mid-South Transplant Foundation will unite nine heart transplant recipients with their donors’ families at the Heart to Heart: Honoring the Gift of Life event. This is the largest known meeting of heart transplant recipients and donor families. Ron Childers, whose mother received a heart transplant at Baptist in 1995, will help facilitate the first-time meetings between donor families and recipients. Keep reading to watch the preview video featuring heart transplant patients and get the link to join the event remotely.

Baptist team members can click here to join via Microsoft Teams from 10 a.m. to noon on Feb. 14. Please keep your telephone or microphone muted, and do not enable your webcam.

Watch the preview video below to hear from patients featured in the Heart to Heart event.