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Illuminating the path through heart failure for patients, caregivers and their families

Every 30 seconds, someone new is diagnosed with heart failure.  We provide relief through...

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EMERGENCY
HOUSING

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HEART HEALTHY
MEALS

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SHORT TERM
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

HOLIDAY
OUTREACH

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HOSPITAL
VISITATION

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PATIENT &
CAREGIVER SUPPORT

Heart failure is a progressive disease with no cure. Despite it’s prevalence, only a small percentage of hospitals are able to provide treatment so most patients must travel to receive care. Joe Beretta Heart Foundation provides structured programs and wrap around support addressing uncertainty, fear, isolation and financial limitations for families in the fight of their life.

Real Stories of Hope & Help

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MIKE AVERY, PATIENT

"Thank goodness for y’all helping us out with a place to stay because I don’t know what we would do without it...It’s devastating. You’ve got a family to feed. You can’t work. It takes everything you’ve got to get through it. You wonder if you’re better off to just go on and not be a burden. It about takes the manhood out of you. Without people like y’all, people like us are gonna die."

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Our donors have made an incredible impact

While the ripple effect can’t be calculated and these numbers represent so many more lives, stories, hopes and dreams than we could ever convey, the impact we can assess is profound.

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Partner hospitals in 3 cities

1,500+

Heart Healthy Meals Served

1,500+

Individuals Served

1,750+

Holiday gifts provided for in-patient families

3,000+

Nights of Stay Provided

225+

Patients made eligible for life saving treatment

Upcoming Events

Save the Date! 

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2026 Valentine's Gala

February 14, 2026

Pittsburgh, PA

*Tickets go live 8/1/25

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2026 Dinner in the Vines

May 30, 2026

Nashville, TN

*Tickets go live 1/1/26

From the Beretta Family

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​On July 2, 2016 our lives changed forever when we lost the patriarch of our family to heart failure. What we experienced during Joe’s treatment felt unbearable, despite the fact that we had resources and support. Over the course of his extended hospital stays, we learned the families fighting alongside us were facing unimaginable additional obstacles. Since the majority of heart failure patients must travel to receive care, we met people sleeping in their cars, families losing their homes, caregivers who felt alone and abandoned and patients ready to give up because they felt like a burden to their family. 

 

We started the Foundation to keep Joe alive in our hearts and minds, and we’re proud of the way we’ve loved him into a continued existence. But the mission has grown much bigger than that, because we’ve seen what standing in the gap for desperate families can do. Joe was famous for seeing suffering and moving towards it, and it’s part of the reason his generosity outlived him. Please know your generosity can outlive you, too.

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Together, we can make a difference

There is such a profound difference between the cost of something and the value of it.

Take action by partnering with us today! 

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