Partners, Sponsors, and Funding

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The Paul Dudley White Coronary Care System St. Agnes HealthCare Baltimore, Maryland

Partners

Partners relate to organizations that see the need to work together in sharing an interest in promoting the mission of early heart attack awareness movement throughout the world.

Partner opportunities are currently available. Please contact us  for more information.

Sponsors

Sponsors relate to organizations that fund this needed project through unrestricted grants. These grants may be aimed specifically at different projects or given for general needs. Without this funding help the EHAC program would cease to exists. It is miraculous to us that it has gone on for the almost 10 years and continues to expand our days with projects that continue to fill our drawing boards. These projects seem to multiply like rabbits. With additional funding we may be able to expand our infrastructure to accommodate even more. We are not complaining, we just need more hours in the day and for this we are very appreciative.

Sponsor opportunities are currently available. Please contact us  for more information.

Funding

The Paul Dudley White (CCS) EHAC Foundation is a specific non-profit foundation that serves to promote awareness of heart attack beginnings so as to intervene early and protect the heart from damage. It attempts to do so through local, state, national and international efforts to accomplish this mission. It's goal is to significantly reduce heart attack death and damage so as to take heart disease out of first place as the Nation's #1 health problem before the year 2,000. The strategy is to use community hospitals through Chest Pain Centers to serve as damage control sites in association with penetration of the communities with the message of early symptom (prodromal) of a heart attack. This strategy has been in place for the last 10 years and is working very efficiently.

Funding is needed to carry out our mission by providing education through the educational system and in setting up Chest Pain Centers in community hospitals.

Funding Needed With Sponsor Participation

Dear Corporate Sponsor:

Heart disease or more specifically heart attack death has been the leading cause of death for adult Americans since 1990. It has been in that position for as long as we can remember. It is truly a killer and the horrendous statistics tell us that it kills more Americans each year (600,000 deaths) more than all of the accumulative deaths of Americans killed in past wars.

It need not do so if we can put together a strategy that is aimed at early intervention when heart attacks have beginnings. The problem in the United States is that heart attack is a crashing illness and we wait for the chest pain (which is a manifestation of a heart attack) to be severe and prolonged before coming into the so called Emergency Departments. The severity of the pain and the emergency of the situation should tell us that the end results are going to turn out poor and indeed this turns out to be the case.

This however need not take place. In the war in Kuwait we demonstrated that a General is important, that a strategy is important and that high tech laser precision bombing as well as national support from the American public could not only help win the war within a short period of time, but hold American casualties to less than 200 deaths. If we can muster our efforts for a war outside the United States, why can't we put together a similar strategy and win the war at home where so many Americans die each year and need not do so.

The strategy that we are talking about is based on the fact that heart attacks have beginnings and that beginnings are recognizable long before the crash. Intervention early amounts to acute prevention, and this is the strategy that can be employed throughout the United States in an effort to take heart attack deaths out of first place. This early heart attack awareness effort is called EHAC the acronym for early heart attack care. We are familiar with the acronym CPR which stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation when the patient has died and needs to be resuscitated. EHAC is at the opposite end of the spectrum and needs even more attention for the potential benefits present at this earlier stage.

In association with this awareness program for the community, there is also a hospital effort being made to put together Chest Pain Centers in every hospital in the United States in an effort to focus attention on chest discomfort before the chest pain as an entry point to encourage patients to come in earlier so that more can be done. This effort is now possible because chest pain centers have been able to establish critical pathways that allow for the low probability patient to be worked up without being admitted and becomes cost effective. It thus provides a screening mechanism in the emergency Department for patients with early heart attack symptoms.

St. Agnes HealthCare was the first hospital in the Nation to put together a chest pain center in 1981. Presently 4,000 patients are seen each year and managed efficiently and effectively. Since that time, the St. Agnes program has become national and has provided this information to other hospitals throughout the United States. Within the last 5 years more than 700 hospitals have come on board with similar type programs. It is projected that every hospital in the United States will have a chest pain center before the year 2000.

What is desperately needed at the present time is to get the message out to the American public through education that early heart attack awareness is important in order to reduce the #1 killer of the adult population in the United States.

To fund this increasingly significant program, the Paul Dudley White Coronary Care System at St. Agnes HealthCare is seeking funds from Foundations and Corporations and individuals benefactors. The task of bringing this EHAC message to the school systems in the entire country is projected to cost approximately 2 million dollars. This strategy of enhancing community awareness for heart attack beginnings linked up with developing chest pain centers (expected to take place in every hospital in the United States) forms the basis for the EHAC strategy to reduce significantly heart attack deaths and take heart disease out of first place before the year 2000. This is not only possible, but it is happening. It just needs adequate funding to get the message out and put this strategy into place. What is being requested is an opportunity to discuss this strategy with your organization for an unrestricted Grant.

This strategy of enhancing community awareness for heart attack beginnings linked up with developing chest pain centers (expected to take place in every hospital in the United States) forms the basis for the EHAC strategy to reduce significantly heart attack deaths and take heart disease out of first place before the year 2000. This is not only possible, but is happening. It just needs adequate funding to get the message out and put this strategy into place. What is being requested is an opportunity to discuss this with your organization.

Funding Needs

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