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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.