For Immediate Release:

February

24, 2014

Media Contact:

Lidia Amoretti
[email protected]

305-585-7206

PATIENTS REUNITE WITH DOCTORS AT HOLTZ CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL FOR CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT AWARENESS EVENT

Event Celebrates Children Born with Congenital Heart Defects Successfully Treated at Holtz Children’s Hospital

Who:

Families of children with congenital heart defects treated at Holtz;  and other University of Miami/Holtz pediatric cardiology physicians; Sonia Perez, founder and executive director of Angel’s Pediatric Heart House

What:

Holtz Children’s Hospital at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center is hosting an event to celebrate children who were born with congenital heart defects and successfully treated at Holtz.

Through their stories, the families hope to teach others what they have gone through so they can help support other children who have these lifelong conditions. Former patients from the Children’s Heart Center at Holtz will share stories, play games and celebrate their survival with their former caregivers including physicians, nurses and social workers.

 

When:

February

25, 2014, 11:30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m.

Where:

Jackson Memorial Hospital
Ira C. Clark Diagnostic Treatment Center
Room 259
1280 N.W. 19th Street 
Miami, Florida 33136

Editor’s Note:

*Media can park outside of the DTC

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Jackson Health System
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