Woman Denied Heart Transplant Due to Finances, Told to Fundraise

Hedda Martin and her family raised more than $30,000 because a hospital refused to add her to an heart transplant waiting list because she did not have enough money to pay for anti-rejection medicine. Alex Britt/GoFundMe

A woman is hoping to get back onto the waiting list to have a heart transplant after being denied eligibility by the hospital currently treating her. Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan reportedly told Hedda Martin, 60, that she did not have enough money to fund the necessary anti-rejection medications after the surgery and therefore was ineligible.

Martin suffers from congestive heart failure due to a complication from chemotherapy, which was used to treat her aggressive breast cancer in 2005.