Every Heartbeat Matters (EHM), focuses on impacting the lives of underserved structural heart patients.
By partnering with over 70 patient- and cardiac-focused charitable partners around the world, we have invested more than $37 million and countless hours of employees' dedication to create the EHM community.
Between 2014-2020, the EHM community has impacted the global burden of heart valve disease by educating, screening and treating over 1.7 million underserved people, surpassing the initial goal of 1 million. Based on the accumulated knowledge and experience on how to have the greatest impact on patients, Edwards is focused on its next phase of EHM.
We will improve the lives of 2.5 million additional underserved structural heart and critical care patients by the end of 2025.
Together with our charitable partners we:
- Impact each stage of the patient journey from detection to treatment, and recovery, and;
- Provide access to donated Edwards technologies for humanitarian treatment outside the U.S.
10 Years of Underserved Patient Impact
Stories of impact from Every Heartbeat Matters
Meet our patients and partners, hear their stories.
Defining underserved
We identify underserved patients as those who have a health disparity as defined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services* and lack awareness of, or access to, medically appropriate healthcare.
* U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines a health disparity as “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage. Health disparities adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory, or physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location; or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion.
Program and reporting guidelines
Every Heartbeat Matters measures the impact of donations and relies on input from each partner following program and reporting guidelines. When we see our results together, we are able to best understand our successes and opportunities to improve lives even more.
Technology donations
We partner with MAP International to offer donated Edwards technologies to physicians performing humanitarian care outside the U.S. Through this partnership, we also offer patient care packages, assembled by employees, to underserved patients around the world.
MAP International is an organization dedicated to providing medicine and health supplies to those in need around the world so they might experience life to the fullest. Please visit MAP.org/EHM to learn more, apply to become a MAP partner, and request donated Edwards technologies and patient care packages.