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2nd Chance Run

The LifeGift 2nd Chance Run honors organ, eye, and tissue donors in 109 Texas counties in North, Southeast, and West Texas.

While celebrating the lives saved and offering hope to those still waiting, the event raises awareness of the need for organ, eye, and tissue donation across the state.

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Heart Exchange Support Group

CELEBRATING 37 YEARS OF SERVICE

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A supportive network to help in a time of need for patients and family members...The primary purpose of the Heart Exchange is to provide emotional support for transplant patients (Heart, Kidney, Liver, and Lungs) during the difficult wait for a donor organ and to support those who have received transplants at CHI St. Luke's Health–Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas and other centers.  The Heart Exchange is open to everyone!

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GET IN TOUCH

We'd love to hear from you

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Terry is a heart transplant receipient. Terry has been providing a Recipe every other Week to us for the past few months. As we all know, waiting for a transplant or being a transplant recipient requires maintaining a healthy diet.  

 

If you have a transplant healthy recipe, please submit it to Terry. We look forward to hearing from you!!!

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What We Do

  OVER  
$600,000 in Grants

Research Support

60

+ Meetings & Activities/year (including virtual)

37

YEARS 

25

+ ACTIVE MEMBERS

Resources

The Heart Exchange exists for the benefit of transplant patients, their families and loved ones!

Our Stories 
Sharing Our Experiences

I was born with cyanotic congenital heart disease,ASD, VSD, transposition of the great vessels, and pulmonary stenosis.

 Activities 

Support Meetings 

2nd Saturday of the month at CHI St. Luke's Health–Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas - Cooley Auditorium 6:00 pm

Donor Awareness 

 Heart Exchange Support Group members participate in donor awareness activities and educational activities... 

Our Board

 

2024 - 2025

Membership requires no dues, only a desire to further the Heart Exchange's objectives of patient support...

In the News

Facebook

Follow and like us on 

Facebook and get up to date information about our meetings and donor awareness activities... 

Helpfull Links

Virtual Information

We have a list of reading materials and helpful links that will help provide you some guidance and information...

Testimonials

The Heart Exchange provides significant emotional support for our patients and their families as they await heart transplantation.

Denton A. Cooley, MD

Former President and Surgeon-in-Chief, Texas Heart Institute

The Heart Exchange exists for the benefit of transplant patients (Heart, Kidney, Liver, and Lung)

Members are transplant recipients, assist device recipients, those in need of transplants or devices, their families and friends and the nurses who work with them. Its members are also volunteers...

We’ve been where you are. We know what its like to be told, “You need a transplant.”

We know what its like to wait and we know what its like when the wait is over. The life ahead of you can be wonderful. And we would like to share our perspective with you.  Just contact us or If you are a patient at CHI St. Luke's Health–Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas, just tell your nurse that you’d like us to visit and we will be there.

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