The WCCHN

11/14/2025

Behind every successful surgery is a dedicated team of OR nurses ensuring precision, safety, and compassion. ❤️ Today, we celebrate our pediatric cardiac OR nursing teams—the steady hands and caring hearts who help make each procedure possible for children with congenital heart disease. 👏 Thank you for all that you do for patients, families, and care teams across our network. 💪👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️

11/03/2025

💙 Supporting siblings matters too!
A new study is looking for kids ages 8–12 who have a brother or sister with congenital heart disease. The program focuses on mental health and wellness, giving siblings a space to learn, share, and feel supported.
🕒 Just 2.5 hours total
💵 $50 honorarium
📩 To learn more or sign up contact the research coordinators.
By taking part, your family can help shape better support for siblings of children with CHD today and in the future.

Calling CHD Siblings!

The University of Regina is seeking children (ages 8–12) who have a sibling with CHD, along with a parent/caregiver, to take part in a research study. 🫀

✔️ 5-week commitment (about 2.5 hrs)
✔️ $50 honorarium

If this is something that you are Interested in take a peek and reach out to the organizers of this study!

10/15/2025

💗 Spotlight on Collaboration in Fetal Heart Care
When it comes to detecting congenital heart defects before birth, it truly takes a team. At MIC Medical Imaging in Edmonton, sonographers and specialists are building their skills through training with Tiny HeartsCan Foundation, helping ensure that even the smallest heart differences are recognized early.

By growing the expertise of the care teams around you, families across Western Canada gain more support, earlier answers, and stronger connections to specialized care when it matters most.

We’re proud to see Amy Porter, founder of Tiny HeartsCan and a past WCCHN BoostUp winner, putting her project into action and helping strengthen the team of professionals around every heart family. 💙

Video Link in the comments.

10/08/2025

Every child born with a congenital heart condition shows us what real courage looks like. From countless appointments and procedures to everyday challenges, their strength, resilience, and hope inspire us all.

Today, we honour the bravery of everywhere—and the who walk beside them—reminding us that not all heroes wear capes. Some have scars that tell incredible stories. 💙

To our : you are fierce, you are , and you are our inspiration. 🫶

10/06/2025

💙👩‍⚕️ Happy Pediatric Nurses Week! 👨‍⚕️💙
From healing hands to endless heart, pediatric nurses are the everyday superheroes standing beside kids and families through every step of their care. You don’t just care for little heart warriors, you cheer them on, comfort their families, and make hospital halls feel a little brighter. 🌟

A huge THANK YOU to pediatric nurses everywhere for the skill, compassion, and dedication you bring to every shift. We see you, we appreciate you, and we celebrate you this week (and every week)! ❤️

09/23/2025

💙 Supporting siblings matters too!
A new study is looking for kids ages 8–12 who have a brother or sister with congenital heart disease. The program focuses on mental health and wellness, giving siblings a space to learn, share, and feel supported.
🕒 Just 2.5 hours total
💵 $50 honorarium
📩 To learn more or sign up see the original post below.
By taking part, your family can help shape better support for siblings of children with CHD today and in the future.

08/28/2025

WCCHN is proud to support our partners at CNOC Thrive and Congenital Cardiac Research Collaborative - CCRC in shaping better care for children with congenital heart disease.

Parents know best when it comes to their child’s development—and your experiences can help guide future research, education, and support for heart families. 💙

📋 Take the short anonymous survey and share your thoughts. Every response helps ensure family voices are at the heart of care.

The Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Collaborative (CNOC) and the Congenital Cardiac Research Collaborative (CCRC) want to partner with parents of children with congenital heart disease. Our goal is to create a family-centered approach that guides research, education, and awareness around developmental follow-up. To do so, we need to hear about what is important to parents and what their experiences have been around their child’s development. We have designed a brief survey for parents to share their thoughts on this topic.

Attached is a flyer with a QR code to the survey. Please consider partnering with us by completing the survey. Please also share this survey with others. We want to hear from as many parents as possible!

https://redcap.wustl.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=8K9LN8MWFHX7N7AC

08/22/2025

👏 Meet Gwen, a 14-year-old and rising 🐎 equestrian star! After three open-heart surgeries, she continues to defy the odds, recently representing Canada in dressage, achieving personal best scores, and even speaking at the Parade of Nations. 🌍✨ Gwen, you’re an inspiration to heart families everywhere and a reminder that CHD doesn’t define what’s possible. ❤️

👉 You can cheer her on and follow her journey on Instagram:

08/08/2025

💻❤️ Heart kids ages 6–16 — join the Virtual Heart Camp on November 22, 2025! Connect with other kids who “get it” and enjoy a fun-filled day of games, cookies, and connection. 🍪🎉