The Brief
- A Georgia family traveled to Cook Children’s in Fort Worth for their newborn daughter’s rare heart procedure after being turned away by multiple specialists.
- Nine-month-old Anna Claire is now thriving at home following a complex five-hour open-heart surgery performed just one day after her birth.
- While she is doing well, she will need at least one additional surgery between the ages of 3 and 5.
FORT WORTH, Texas – A North Texas hospital is being credited with saving the life of a newborn baby from Georgia.
After being turned away from numerous other hospitals, the Beavers family found a doctor in Fort Worth who agreed to help treat their daughter’s rare condition.
Rare Heart Defect
Sarah Ellen and Zach Beavers live in Athens, Georgia. That’s where they received baby Anna Claire’s frightening diagnosis before she was even born.
“Her left ventricle was never formed or was just every small. And because it was so small that led it to never develop,” Zach Beavers said.…