Sudden Cardiac Arrest is the leading cause of death in the United States, taking the lives of more than 350,000 people each year. Anyone can experience Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA), including infants, children, teens, young adults and people in their 30s and 40s who have...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Steve Cochran's WGN Radio show had Alane Church, with Max Schewitz Foundation, on the show as the MVPP last week. She talked about the foundation's efforts to get kids an EKG and the 3rd Annual Josh Church Fundraiser coming up...
Volunteers are the backbone of our foundation as we rely on adult volunteers as our primary labor source for providing HeartSmart EKG. No medical knowledge is required to volunteer. You will be trained and supervised by our medical staff. Believe it or not, it is...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Two Vernon Hills High School students selected Alane Church for their Difference Maker video project. Alane Church did not know as a parent about the importance of cardiac screening for her healthy kids. She started the Josh Church...
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We completed our 2018-2019 EKG screening program on April 24, 2019 at Deerfield High School. The school-wide EKG screening program began in 2005 following the sudden death of Max Schewitz. To date, the Foundation has now provided 87,706 EKG’s and 2,375 limited echocardiograms. The Foundation has...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Libertyville High Schools students we'll be on your campus next week (March 13) providing EKG screenings. Alane Church, a Warren High School parents shares her story in this video. Hopefully it will encourage you to go home, talk with...
We will be screening at the following schools in the 2019/2020 school year: 9/04/19 Lake Forest Academy 9/11/19 Vernon Hills High School 9/18/19 Wheeling High School 9/25/19 John Hersey High School 10/09/19 ...
The Max Schewitz Foundation is pleased to announce that Kathy Aykroid will join the board of directors as the executive director and secretary. Ms. Aykroid has been the lead project manager for nearly a decade coordinating all school EKG screenings, volunteers, and vendor logistics. She...
We will begin our 12th year of EKG-based cardiac screenings at Lake Forest Academy on August 22. The Foundation is scheduled to provide screening at eleven area high schools this year and potentially reach an additional 10,000 students. The program’s mission is to identify students who...