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An infant born with a damaged heart has helped break barriers in pediatric cardiac care for patients around the world.
In late 2020, The Georgia Claire Bowen Foundation announced a million-dollar grant to the Boston Children’s Hospital Heart Center. The foundation was founded by Kate Bowen, an Averill Park native, Albany Academy of the Holy Names graduate and children’s clothing designer, in honor of her daughter Georgia Claire Bowen. Georgia, now 2 years old, was born in cardiac arrest.
To save her life, doctors moved her from Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was born, to Boston Children’s Hospital. Bowen says the physicians there tried something that had never been done before on any human, especially a newborn, after a heart attack.
Georgia, center, and her siblings
Kate Bowen s youngest daughter Georgia is an ebullient toddler. She is the happiest person I know, but the most strong-willed person I know, her mom says.
But Georgia, now 2, had an incredibly rough start. Soon after she was born on May 18, 2018, she suffered a rare cardiac arrest, followed by months of life-threatening complications, many days on a machine that pumped blood through her body and finally, at four months, a life-saving heart transplant. We saw several miracles throughout, says Bowen, 38, of Duxbury, Mass. And we re still seeing them. Get push notifications with news, features and more.