When 60-year-old Grand Rapids, Michigan, resident Hedda Martin applied for a heart transplant, she got a very surprising and disheartening response. Per WWMT3, the letter she received from Spectrum Health Heart and Lung Specialized Clinics said she was “not a candidate at this time for a heart transplant due to needing [a] more secure financial plan for immunosuppressive medication.” Spectrum Health then recommended that she launch a “fundraising effort for $10,000.”
Spectrum Health performs heart transplants in Grand Rapids at the Richard DeVos Heart and Lung Transplant Clinic. The clinic was named after United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s deceased father-in-law.
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