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Funding Bighearted Journeys

Your support makes a difference. Help us continue the work that matters most in our community.


Donations to this fund support the most urgent needs to keep the HCMA running and serving the Bighearted Community.

Patients and families live with HCM every day, yet their experiences are too rarely treated as data that can drive change. Using the HCMA Patient Journey Registry, built from patient-reported data contributed by more than 7,000 individuals, this fellowship allows emerging researchers to ask the questions that matter most to patients: How long did the diagnosis take? Where did care break down? What barriers prevented follow-up, specialty care, or participation in research? 

In the memory of Lori Anne Flanigan-Munson, sister of the Founder and CEO of the HCMA, Lisa Salberg, the Lori Fund eases the burdens of patients' travel to an HCMA Recognized Center of Excellence for treatment. HCMA's Lori Fund provides grants of up to $600 per year to HCM patients with financial needs.

TThe AHC brings together community groups, houses of worship, and healthcare providers to educate individuals about heart disease. Its focus is on increasing awareness and promoting the timely diagnosis of conditions such as HCM and cardiac amyloidosis, conditions that are often underdiagnosed in underserved communities. Working through community-based outreach.

  • Raise awareness about genetic heart diseases
  • Encourage people to understand their family's heart history and speak with their health care providers
  • Help providers identify at-risk patients and make timely referrals to cardiac care

Mental health challenges are an essential and often overlooked component to HCM families and cardiac patients as a whole. 


Help us educate and train mental health professionals. The project's goal is to create a CME course, disseminate these trainings, and align patients and families with these trained providers. 

The goal of this effort is to maintain a policy agenda to advance legislative and regulatory initiatives at the state and federal levels that further the interests of safe and progressive diagnosis and treatment for those with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM).  There are many efforts at both the State and Federal levels related to HCM, Sudden Cardiac Arrest, Heart Health, Medical Devices, and related areas. The HCMA highlights quality legislation supported by the HCMA and hopes to reproduce in other states.

For $90, donors can provide an HCMA scholarship membership to someone who would not otherwise be able to afford it. Scholarship members receive all the benefits of membership.


Membership scholarships are provided within the limits of available funding, so the more generous the donors are, the more generous the HCMA can be!

Those lost to HCM live on in our hearts. This is an opportunity to pay tribute to their lives. Loss is never easy, and with HCM it often comes far too soon. The HCMA supports not only those who have HCM but also those who have been touched by it and left behind.

Donations to this fund support a memorial in your loved one's name on our website and in other HCMA publications.

HCM is the most common form of heart disease in cats. It causes the heart muscle, particularly the left ventricle, to thicken, making it harder for the heart to pump blood effectively. This condition can lead to complications such as congestive heart failure.


The HCMA is committed to improving the lives of our feline friends with HCM through community outreach and education. This initiative helps cat carers and supporters discover treatment advancements, current research, and make a positive impact on feline cardiac health.


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