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DAR Massanutton Donates to RMH Heart Check, Harrisonburg Free Clinic
By rhildebrand @ 5:43 AM :: 154 Views :: Syndicated Articles
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Eleanor Price, regent, Daughters of the American
Revolution Massanutton (center), presents a
check for $1,410 to Maria Hostetter, RMH Heart
Check navigator (left) and Rich Sider, executive
director, Harrisonburg-Rockingham Free Clinic.
This donation will cover the cost of 28 educational
heart health screenings provided by RMH Heart
Check to uninsured, low-income patients of the
Free Clinic. | Contact: Debra Thompson
Assoc. Director, PR & Communications
540-564-5886
The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) of Massanutton [sic] has donated $1,410 to RMH Heart Check for Women to provide free heart health screenings at the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Free Clinic.
The gift will cover the cost of 28 heart health screenings for uninsured, low-income women, many of whom are at high risk for heart disease, said Rich Sider, executive director, Harrisonburg-Rockingham Free Clinic.
Eleanor Price, regent, DAR Massanutton, said she got the idea for the organization’s donation from seeing newspaper ads showing how RMH Heart Check had made a difference in women’s lives. She invited Maria Hostetter, RMH Heart Check navigator, to speak to her DAR chapter in February, prompting almost a dozen members to receive the screening themselves.
“It just mushroomed from there,” said Price. “One of our members gave a $500 gift. She said, ‘We as Daughters can help other daughters.’ As a civic organization, we wanted get outside the confines of our meetings and support the clinic and the hospital.”
Hostetter thanked the group for its support of women’s heart health.
“The RMH Heart Check program is a unique educational service that has served over 600 women and 70 men over the past two years,” Hostetter said. “Because of the generosity of the Daughters of the American Revolution, we will be able to provide Harrisonburg-Rockingham Free Clinic patients with heart disease risk factor screening and education.”
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