With Hope in Our Hearts, They Created New Ways to Assist in Vital Surgeries Through Live, Video-Sharing Technologies and Telemedicine
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About Edwards Lifesciences and Edwards Lifesciences Foundation: Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader of patient-focused innovations for structural heart disease and critical care monitoring. We are driven by a passion for patients, dedicated to improving and enhancing lives through partnerships with clinicians and With Hope stakeholders across the global healthcare landscape. Edwards’ commitment to charitable giving and participation in philanthropic causes is one of the defining elements of its culture. Since 2004, the company and Edwards Lifesciences Foundation have gifted more than $100 million to charitable organizations around the world supporting underserved patients and strengthening communities in Our Hearts where employees live and work. Support for these causes includes foundation grants, donations of Edwards technologies for humanitarian patient care, and pursuit of 100 percent of employee involvement in charitable activities. Learn more at Edwards.com/corporategiving. Edwards Lifesciences 2021 Global Corporate Giving Report Follow Us | @Edwardslifesciences @edwardslifesciences @EdwardsLifesci @Edwards Lifesciences Edwards, Edwards Lifesciences, the stylized E logo, and Every Heartbeat Matters are trademarks of Edwards Lifesciences Corporation or its aliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © 2021 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation. All rights reserved. Edwards Lifesciences • One Edwards Way, Irvine, CA 92614 USA • edwards.com/corporategiving [email protected] • 949.250.5176 A Year of Challenge and Hope To our global community, We are hopeful that medical advancements will slow COVID-19, however, we continue to see the toll this past year has taken on our patients and neighbors, particularly the most underserved. This is why we listen to and partner with charitable organizations, communities and our employees to understand how we can best use the power of giving to help those in need. With social distancing requirements making many programs challenging to execute, we are energized by the new ways charitable partners continuously innovate. Clinicians have stayed up into the night to video-in and guide healthcare workers as they treat patients. Clinical education forums have shifted to virtual learning platforms. Social In partnership with Orange County United Way, distanced workstations have allowed homeless youth to plug into and continue their members of our Advanced Technology R&D team virtual education. These are just a few examples – the stories are inspiring and the built tricycles and filled boxes with physical education equipment for students and ingenuity is remarkable. teachers at Washington Elementary School in Santa Ana, California. This unprecedented time called for an unprecedented response, and that is what we did: 2020 was our most significant year of giving yet, nearly doubling from $11 million in 2019 to almost $20 million. Edwards Lifesciences Foundation funded 277 global charitable partners in 40 countries. We donated nearly $10 million in Edwards technologies for humanitarian care, globally. We saw employees giving more than ever through our match programs, and we were honored to triple their gifts to charitable partners. As we look forward, we are inspired by this community's strength, resiliency and dedication, which motivates us daily to do more and find new ways to help. It is because A long-term goal of EHM partner NPO Heart Saving of this collective and collaborative eort that we believe our future together will be Project is to train and support pediatric cardiologists in bright. Will you join us? Mongolia on how to perform life-saving heart surgeries. When COVID-19 prevented such in-person missions, With hope in our hearts, they created new ways to assist in vital surgeries through live, video-sharing technologies and telemedicine. Pictured here is a surgery in process in the city of Ulaanbaatar. Michael A. Mussallem Amanda C. Fowler Chairman and CEO, Edwards Lifesciences Senior Director, Global Corporate Giving, Chairman of the Board, Edwards Lifesciences Edwards Lifesciences Foundation Executive Director, Edwards Lifesciences Foundation What Makes Our Hearts Beat Even with the hardship of As our signature charitable initiative, Every Heartbeat Matters (EHM) has become the COVID-19, in 2020 EHM expanded centerpiece of our global giving, focused where we believe we can have the greatest its impact on patients: impact - underserved structural heart and critical care patients. We are grateful for the passion and commitment of our charitable partners as we grow EHM to support even more patients with the greatest need. Right now, that need and barriers to care are Approximately more distinct than ever with many programs halted for COVID-19. 130,000 underserved patient lives impacted In 2020, we set a new, ambitious goal for EHM: A total of 24 countries Improve the lives of 2.5 million additional underserved structural heart and critical positively impacted care patients by the end of 2025. This builds on the success of our partners who, since 2014, have impacted over Patient Impact by Pillar* 1.7 million underserved people. EHM is focused on addressing an urgent need: over 11 million people1 in the U.S. and millions more globally are aected by heart valve disease – a deadly, yet treatable, disease. Detection: We are proud that as this initiative expands, so have our opportunities to support 90,000 underserved patients impacted humanitarian clinicians, educators, and underserved patients worldwide. In partnership with MAP International, we have enhanced our product donation program, increasing access to donated Edwards technologies for undeserved structural heart and critical care patients outside the U.S. Supporting our communities and patients within them Treatment: continues to be what makes our hearts beat, with purpose. 50,000 underserved patients impacted 1Source: The Silver Book: Valve Disease, Alliance for Aging Research Total Reported Giving = $20M Recovery: 1% 8% 26% 65% 45,000 underserved patients impacted Other Grants Admin Community Grants, Support2 EHM Grants, Product Donations * Underserved patients impact by program type includes overlap in services, i.e. one patient may be impacted by a combination of detection, treatment and/or recovery. Every Heartbeat Matters partner, MAP International, packed and distributed Edwards-donated Critical Care 2Direct Charitable Activities technologies for COVID-19 in-hospital support in Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Stories of Every Heartbeat Matters Meet Woodmylens Rising to the Challenge, Innovating to Help More Patients Woodmylens, five years old, and his parents sought out In collaboration with EHM partners The Thoracic Surgery treatment for him at a hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. There, Foundation and Children’s National Medical Center, Dr. Craig a visiting pediatric cardiologist determined that Woodmylens Sable and Dr. Pranava Sinha intended to go to Uganda to was suering from rheumatic heart disease. With the help of perform humanitarian cardiac surgery on eight patients in a partnership between EHM charitable partners Mitral March 2020. This was a recurring visit as a part of a long-term Foundation and Haiti Cardiac Alliance (HCA), he was put on a relationship to elevate patient care and rhematic heart waiting list for surgery. Finally, HCA was able to arrange the disease research in Uganda. However, like many other events operation at a hospital in Santo Domingo, Dominican in 2020, there was a need to pivot: 72 hours after half the Republic (DR). Excited to share the good news, HCA called team arrived, Uganda closed its Woodmylens’ parents, only to discover that their cell phone borders, restricting travel and numbers were no longer valid. Without even a street address, leaving the doctors and their which are rare in rural Haiti, HCA had no way of contacting team separated in two countries. them. All they knew was the name of the district where they lived, which was home to thousands of people. HCA decided Determined to get the patients to go to his town to search for him. When they arrived, the the care that they needed to case manager approached a house to knock on the door. As survive, the clinical teams he did, he glanced over and saw a little boy without clothes collaborated, deciding that Dr. playing in the dirt with a toy car made of twisted wire and old Sable would lead the surgeries, tin cans. He recognized it was Woodmylens. Five days later, with Dr. Sinha assisting via Woodmylens was in DR ready for surgery. telemedicine in the U.S., and rely on the local Ugandan clinical team to take a larger role in the complex surgeries than they had in the past. Dr. Sable and Dr. Sinha knew the Ugandan team was ready – it was just a bit sooner than they intended in their robust, long-term training plan. They were right. All eight surgeries were completed with the quick adoption of including telemedicine and more native clinical involvement, helping patients, giving the local Ugandan clinicians increased clinical experience, and pushing forward in the quest for sustainable clinical care for under- With at-risk children at the heart of their mission, EHM Thailand-based partner The Life Skills Development Within 48 hours after surgery, Woodmylens was sitting up in served heart patients. Foundation (Rak Dek) distributed patient care packages assembled by employees at Edwards’ 2020 Japan and bed in a cheerful, brightly decorated Pediatric Intensive Care Asia-Pacific Sales Meeting.