Novick Cardiac Alliance
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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
William Novick Global Cardiac Alliance was created to help provide the total cardiac care to children in developing countries. Each year 1.3 million children are born with a heart defect. 14% of children born with a heart defect will not survive their first month of life and 30% will not survive their first year of life without treatment. (Reference from our webpage) The children we serve have limited access to quality cardiac care, and the families lack the financial resources to seek care elsewhere.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Pediatric Cardiac Care
The Novick Cardiac Alliance is committed to bringing sustainable health care solutions to children with cardiac disease in the developing world.
We are dedicated to improving the skills, knowledge, technology and experience of local health-care providers in regions of the world without access to quality Pediatric Cardiac Care.
We aim to provide comprehensive care to all children with congenital or acquired heart disease regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, political ideation, genetic factors or economic means.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of free open heart surgeries performed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The COVID pandemic significantly reduced our ability to travel to our sites of assistance. The number of children and families served dropped in both 2020 and 2021. We hope 2022 will allow normal.
Number of families served in heart-related treatment
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Pediatric Cardiac Care
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of children who underwent open heart surgery
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Type of Metric
Other - describing something else
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
These are the total number of children that received operations during our teams time on our affiliate sites.
Number of children evaluated on each trip.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
These are the children that undergo echo-cardiogram, chest x-ray and consultation with the pediatric cardiologists and surgeons for consideration for medical treatment or surgery during a trip.
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our goal is that in the future all children with heart disease, no matter where they are born, will be able to receive the medical and surgical care they require to live a long and healthy life.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We collaborate with local hospitals, governments, humanitarian organizations, and Health Ministries to provide total cardiac care to children in developing countries. This collaboration will enable local health-care authorities to build Pediatric Cardiac care services in-country and in time eliminate the need to send these children abroad for surgery.
We educate local health-care professionals and work with their educational institutions to improve the standard of training and hence care provided to children with heart disease. Education includes clinical bedside teaching, didactic lectures, and ad hoc teaching sessions on site.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have both permanent and volunteer staff to carry out our pediatric cardiac care health initiatives. Such a setting allows us to have teams in the field simultaneously providing clinical services to the children and education to the local healthcare professionals. Fundraising is the key to being able to provide more service in Low and Middle-Income countries. Therefore we seek funding sources at every level, private individuals, civic organizations, foundations both private and public as well as corporate support and support from the countries' own Ministry of Health or Finance.
We have the ability to expand our services so that we are making 40-50 trips annually operating on more than 800 children and teaching multiple teams locally simultaneously.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since our humble beginning in November 2014 we have operated on over 2,500 children with heart disease in the following countries; China (Beijing), Ecuador (Guayaquil), Honduras (Tegucigalpa), Iran (Tehran, Zahedan), Iraq (Najaf, Karbala, Babylon, Basra), Kyrgyzstan (Biskek), Lebanon (Al Rachaya), Libya (Benghazi, Tobruk, Tripoli), Macedonia (Skopje), Morocco (Rabat), Nigeria (Enugu, Oyo), Democratic Republic of Congo (Lubumbashi), Pakistan (Rawalpindi), Russia (Kemerovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh) and Ukraine (Kharkiv, Kyiv, and L'viv) a total of 14 countries and 26 cities.
Each city receives training and education of the local healthcare professionals and if the cities are not too far apart doctors and technicians from other cities visit us for additional training in pediatric cardiac care. We have developed sustainable programs in Beijing, Guayaquil, Tegucigalpa, Tehran, Karbala, Skopje, Rabat, Rawalpindi, Kemerovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Kharkiv, Kyiv, and L'viv which are all independently capable of providing substantial pediatric cardiac care.
Several sites still require multiple trips per year for additional time before they will be independently caring for these children and able to establish sustainable programs. We are committed to continuing to visit these sites to help the children and build the capacity of the local team.
We have a number of programs in the developmental stages; Quito (Ecuador), and Imphal (India) where we are simply waiting for COVID-19 quarantine issues to be resolved. Similarly, we have a program ready to launch in Lubumbashi (DRC) waiting on COVID-19 border closure and quarantine to be lifted. We are working with a hospital in Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) to get infrastructure upgrades sponsored and performed so that it reaches the level needed to carry our pediatric cardiac care. We are also implementing an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, heart support device for heart failure) course in Kharkiv which will begin when COVID-19 restrictions in Ukraine are relaxed.
Projects on the horizon are improving pediatric cardiac surgical services in Ibn Al Bitar Cardiac Center in Baghdad and instituting a pediatric cardiac surgical service in Luanda, Angola. Our future efforts on the African continent include helping improve programs in Angola and Rwanda in the near future.
The magnitude of the deficit for pediatric cardiac care in Low and Middle-Income countries (LMIC) demands that we continue to train as many individuals in LMIC as we can.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection, It is difficult to get honest feedback from the people we serve
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Novick Cardiac Alliance
Board of directorsas of 07/24/2022
Dr. William Novick
Novick Cardiac Alliance
Term: 2015 - 2021
Donald Pemberton
Vice President/NCA
Srinadh Rao
Secretary/ NCA
Elizabeth Novick
Treasurer/ NCA
Sara Riahi
Special Projects/Development Director
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.