Help a Heart Family this Holiday Season!
Celebrate the season of giving by supporting a local heart patient and their family.
Throughout the holiday season, we’re reminded of why The HEARTest Yard began in the first place — with a family facing the unthinkable, and choosing hope.
Back in 2012, Greg and Kara Olsen learned they were expecting twins. What began as overwhelming joy quickly turned into fear when they were told that one of their babies would be born with a severe congenital heart defect. In an instant, their lives changed forever.
Like so many heart families, they were thrust into a world of uncertainty — complex medical decisions, endless appointments, and the emotional weight that only parents of critically ill children truly understand. But they also knew one thing with absolute clarity: their son, T.J., deserved every possible chance at life.
They found those answers at Levine Children’s Hospital. And from that partnership, The HEARTest Yard was born — created to ensure that heart families would never have to walk this journey alone.
Today, The HEARTest Yard provides in-home nursing care, physical and speech therapy, and specialized support for babies with congenital heart disease — all at no cost to families, and with no added burden on the hospital. This program gives children a safer path through their most fragile days and gives parents the support they desperately need.
This holiday season, you can help keep that lifeline strong.
Your gift directly fuels the care that keeps heart babies stable, thriving, and fighting forward. You help parents breathe a little easier. You help hospitals reach more families. You help give children the chance their hearts are fighting for.
Please consider making a meaningful holiday gift to The HEARTest Yard today.