Lifestyle Lift^® Foundation

The Lifestyle Lift^®Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping children with disfiguring hemangioma birth defects. Hemangioma is a ball- or mat-shaped benign tumor formed by a collection of excess blood vessels. Because blood vessel cells are usually transparent in thin, smooth muscle cells, hemangiomas are usually the color of the blood that runs through them. With the surgical excision of proliferating hemangiomas comes the risk of hemorrhage. Lifestyle Lift^® utilizes new advancements in surgical instruments to cauterize while cutting, lessening that risk. Benefits of early excision include:

• saving life
• saving vision
• decreasing the psychosocial effects of disfigurement
• naturally expanded skin to aid in primary closure
• the ability to use an avascular tissue plane surrounding actively growing hemangiomas

The children we help cannot afford treatment, and/or do not have access to treatment in their communities. The Lifestyle Lift^® Foundation believes a healthy child is a happy child, and all our efforts are directed towards that end.

Lifestyle Lift^® Sponsors the Healing the Children Foundation

Healing the Children Foundation's mission is to restore health to the impoverished children of the world through donated medical services. Healing the Children began with one child, Lori Jo Embleton, a Korean infant adopted by Cris and Gary Embleton of Spokane, Washington. Lori Jo died of a condition that could have been cured if the medicine she needed had been available in her native country. After Lori Jo’s death, Cris put her grief to work. She arranged for a child from Guatemala to have donated, life-saving heart surgery. From that one little miracle, Healing the Children grew Today, thousands of children around the world are alive and well because Healing the Children is working on their behalf.