13 Year Old Ava Weitl goes home after almost 2 years at Mayo Clinic’s Saint Marys Campus

ROCHESTER, Minn.- 13 year old Ava Weitl from Des Moines is finally heading home after almost 2 years in the hospital after receiving a heart and kidney transplant at Mayo Clinic’s Saint Marys Campus.

She checked out of the hospital on Wednesday, July 23.

During her stay she was originally only meant to receive a heart transplant to help with a condition she was born with known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome, where the left side of her heart was born under developed…

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