Every Heartbeat Matters

Every Heartbeat Matters

As we look to the future, we want our philanthropy to help even more people and make a stronger impact. Our experience in heart valves and deep commitment to patients are driving our efforts to reduce the global burden of heart valve disease through a focused philanthropic strategy to help those with the greatest challenges. It's an urgent need, because millions of people all around the world are suffering from this disease.

Our commitment to Every Heartbeat Matters

We are passionate about helping underserved people through our philanthropy and plan to commit more than half of our charitable giving to Every Heartbeat Matters from 2014 to 2020.

Defining underserved

We identify underserved people as those who have a health disparity as defined by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention* and lack awareness of, or access to, medically appropriate healthcare.

Every Heartbeat Matters reporting

Our Every Heartbeat Matters initiative is focused on achieving one goal – by 2020, our philanthropy will impact the global burden of heart valve disease by supporting the education, screening and treatment of one million underserved people. Capturing the results of our partners helps us track our progress towards reaching this goal.  Every Heartbeat Matters partners will be provided a link to the reporting portal when data are due. The Every Heartbeat Matters reporting tool may be useful for data collection. 

Please note that every year 10% of Every Heartbeat Matters partners are selected for a review of submitted results, so we recommend all primary sources of impact (such as registration lists from events or impression reports from communications) are kept for at least two years.

We look forward to your involvement in this important initiative and to celebrating the one millionth underserved person that, together, we have helped… because Every Heartbeat Matters!

For more information about our annual performance and goals, please visit the access to healthcare page of our sustainability report.