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Champion, Bella, Attends Trellance and THINK Conferences

Bella Lopez is a Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Champion Child, treated at UF Health Shands in Gainsville, FL.

As a premature baby in the neonatal intensive care unit, along with her twin sister Jesubelle, Bella wasn’t showing signs of progress. She eventually became one of the youngest patients ever to receive a heart-lung transplant. Her family slept by her side for days after her surgery, on one of the many pullout couches, funded by donations to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

Funds from CMN Hospitals also provide the most advanced medical technology and treatment available, ensuring that Bella receives the best care possible from 11 specialists at the hospital. Recently, the pediatric department also received new tools to visualize airways in kids like Bella because of funds from CMN Hospitals.

Bella will need continued monitoring, but she’s full of spunk and vigor and continues to defy the odds. She calls her transplant doctor “my hero.”

Bella had the chance to share her story at two Credit Unions for Kids events: CO-OP Financial Services THINK conference & Trellance’s IMMERSION conference. Both of these events also raised funds for kids like Bella, treated at Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

At THINK, over $120,000 was donated that week through #ShadesUpForKids, TNS golf outing, experiential events in Miami, and more. To see part of Bella’s speech with her mom at CO-OP Financial Services Conference, THINK, click here.

At IMMERSION, Trellance hosted a raffle raised over $10,370!