Without Sponsors, We Could Not Do Our Job
We are proud of the several medical supply companies which have generously supported many of the international missions. It is their crucial help which has allowed us to perform complex operative procedures with local teams – these are medical colleagues, who are in locations needing any support they can get for program development.
CardioStart warmly acknowledges the following sponsors (listed in Alphabetical order)
ABBOTT DIAGNOSTIC INC
Abbott diagnostic systems have contributed their I-Stat technology since 1996 to assist with blood gas measurement during heart operations.
ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
All Children's Hospital, St Petersburg, FL is a part of the Children's Miracle Network of hospitals. They are regular donors of equipment and supplies being replaced by newer models. Many of the nursing staff and technicians from All Children's have accompanied CardioStart on past missions.
ARMSTRONG MEDICAL
Armstrong Medical provides pediatric braslow tapes for CardioStart missions.
ATRIUM MEDICAL INC (USA)
The Atrium company provides CardioStart for all its missions with adult and pediatric reservoir drains, its varied type of chest drain tubes and PTFE conduits.
Plane Tickets
AXIS CLINICAL SOFTWARE INC
Axis Clinical provided their unique and diverse PATS database for comprehensive analysis of patients undergoing heart surgery to assist with long-term management and tracking all over the world, since 2003.
BLUE PLANET PHOTOGRAPHY
Covidien
It's a new era with nothing but promise. In separating from Tyco International, Tyco Healthcare has become Covidien, a $10 billion global healthcare products leader dedicated to innovation and long-term growth.
CRYOLIFE INC (USA)
The Cryolife company provides homograft and biological glue material for CardioStart missions needing conduit replacement and for Ross procedures since 1995.
DOUGLAS SCREEN PRINTERS
Douglas Screen Printers has been a friend of CardioStart for over ten years and has furnished free packing, mailing, and other labels for our use.
FAIRVIEW
Fairview donated $1000 to assist in one airflight ($750) and ($250) for medications for the September 2008 Peru mission.
Gold Standard
Thank you for the terrific source of volunteers for our warehouse as a company project and on-going support.
HOME HEALTH CARE
We acknowledge with gratitude the generous donations of Mr. Baha Abhari, CEO of Home Health Care Inc, who provided an echo machine for the Honorio Delgado hospital, and a wheelchair for a paralyzed child in La Joya, Arequipa, Peru.
Good News Ministries
CardioStart gratefully acknowledges Mrs. Terry (& Ralph) Modica, co-founders of a spiritual daily reflection e-newsletter. They first introduced Mrs. Joanne McGuire to CardioStart, (currently Director of Administration) and, since, as part of their yearly tithing, made a generous financial contribution and provided the software and instruction to support the charity's volunteer database.
MAP International
Medical Assistance Programs. www.map.org
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
Educational materials, which are freely offered to the professional staff of recipient cardiac programs, are made available by a generous donation from The Ohio State University and the OSU School of Allied Medical Professions, Circulation Technology Division.
SCANLAN INC
CardioStart gratefully acknowledges the pivotal improvements Scanlan Inc., made to the standards of pediatric heart surgery at the children's hospital in Lima, Peru. This hospital is the only center of excellence in the entire nation, and the local heart surgery doctors have been enormously frustrated by their inability to take on complex operations, except those done by visiting teams who bring their own instrumentation. Combined with their generous donation of instruments, Scanlan Inc. has provided, heavily discounted, six operating eye-glasses (loopes) for each of the surgeons; this will assist them to take on more advanced surgical procedures.
SORIN GROUP
The Sorin Group donated 5 perfusion packs/oxygenators for the Fall 2008 Peru mission.
SPACELABS HEALTHCARE
CardioStart thanks SpaceLabs Healthcare for their contributions to our 2008 Grenada Mission.
Provided trucks to assist in loading containers for shipping donated medical supplies.
VARIETY CHILDREN'S LIFELINE
Cardiostart gratefully acknowledges the support of Variety Children's Lifeline for a 40 foot container, as well as medication purchases for the Honorio Delgado and San Juan de Dios Hospitals in Peru in April 2008. This donation permitted the set up of the first pediatric heart surgery center in the South of Peru, and this center serves a regional catchment area of 8 million people.
VIRGINIA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Virginia Technical University has supplied CardioStart with marketing consulting work, graphics design for our brochures and electronic media presentations support.
WELCH ALLYN INC. (USA)
The Welch Allyn company has provided monitor equipment and carbon dioxide sensor equipment since 1999.
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