WHO WE ARE
We are comprised entirely of volunteers who are patients or are friends or family members of patients who have had, or are waiting for, lung transplants at the M Health Fairview–University of Minnesota Medical Center (UMMC). While the underlying diseases vary, we or our loved ones have each experienced an end-stage prognosis requiring a life-saving lung transplant. Many of the directors on the Breathing New Life Board are lung-transplant recipients and share the desire to give back to the lung-transplant community.

WHAT WE DO
Breathing New Life provides small emergency grants to patients referred by the M Health Fairview UMMC lung-transplant social workers. Patients’ transplant-related expenses often include, but are not limited to:

• Medication
• Temporary housing
• Utilities
• Insurance
• Relocation costs
• Transportation

Costs associated with lung transplantation can financially threaten even those of significant means.

OUR VISION
The financial needs of our transplant friends and their immediate families far exceed our ability to pay 100% of the costs. It is our hope that sometime in the near future we will be able to do more for those who most need our help.

MISSION STATEMENT
To educate and support M Health Fairview lung transplant patients and their families and to promote public awareness of transplant-related needs so we may ease the financial burden of those patients most in need of assistance.

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