Mended Hearts has nearly 18,000 members in 300 community-based chapters and satellites across the U.S. (and one in Canada). Chapters partner with more than 450 hospitals and cardiac care facilities to provide patient-to-patient support services.  Mended Hearts accredited volunteers annually average more than 200,000 visits to heart patients and families mostly in person, but also online or by phone. 

Objectives:

• To visit, with physician approval, and to offer encouragement and support to heart disease patients and their families. 
• To distribute educational information to members, heart disease patients and families.
• To establish and maintain a program of assistance to medical professionals and health care organizations in their work with heart disease patients and their families
• To cooperate with other organizations in education and research activities pertaining to heart disease.
• To assist established heart disease rehabilitation programs for members and their families.
• To plan and conduct suitable programs of social and educational interest for members, and for heart disease patients and their families