"Where the Heart Is" is the twenty-first episode of the seventh season of ER. It first aired on NBC on May 10, 2001. It was written by Dee Johnson & Meredith Stiehm and directed by Richard Thorpe. It has Abby Lockhart learns that her mother, Maggie is moving to Minneapolis and makes a hard confession to her. Mark Greene treats a boy whose father has been abusing him.