Meeting Sponsor for December 1, 2015
Thank you Forrest Junod for being our Meeting Sponsor!
Forrest donated his time to Angels for Hearts.
Angels for Hearts, Inc. is the product of a Sacramento family, the Kaufman’s. Curtis and Patricia Kaufman are the parents of Kimberly Kaufman. Kimberly is an otherwise healthy woman who was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in November 2004 at the age of 30. Kimberly is not a transplant candidate for medical reasons. Kimberly remains a heart patient, and has a less than normal life expectancy.
The Kaufman family is mindful of the experience that they – and hundreds of other families – have endured and are enduring. They have learned that these families and patients, particularly the youngest patients, need help. For this reason, the Kaufman family formed “Angels for Hearts”.
The Kaufman family is mindful of the experience that they – and hundreds of other families – have endured and are enduring. They have learned that these families and patients, particularly the youngest patients, need help. For this reason, the Kaufman family formed “Angels for Hearts”.
Angels for Hearts provides gifts to patients, ages 0-18 years of age in the pediatric heart units at local hospitals during Christmas. Angels for Hearts works closely with the Child Life Specialists at the hospital to make sure that the ‘wishes, wants, and needs’ of the pediatric patients will be fulfilled. Angels for Hearts helps by supplying gifts to the hospital, specifically the pediatric heart unit, and, with the help of the Child Life Specialists, delivers the gifts to the pediatric heart patients.