The Olympic Medical Center Foundation will present the eighth annual Red, Set, Go! Heart luncheon presented by the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 27, at the Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles.
Persons interested in sponsoring or attending the event can contact the foundation office at 417-7144.
Individual tickets are $50.
“We encourage everyone to attend this wonderful event,” said President Karen Rogers.
“We have sold a lot of sponsorships for the event, and therefore, 100 percent of all money raised at the luncheon will go toward local cardiac service care,” she said.
Education awareness
In 2008, the OMC Foundation launched a three-year campaign to raise awareness about the critical issue of heart health for women on the Olympic Peninsula. The campaign was so successful that the foundation has committed to hosting an annual event.
The educational lunch promotes that the key to eradicating this disease is education.
“The purpose of our event is to inspire women to become more educated to improve their heart health,” Rogers said. “Many women are surprised to learn that heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women,”
Proceeds from this year’s event will go toward the purchase of cardiac exercise equipment at OMC.
Special presentation
The keynote speaker for this year’s event will be Dr. John L. Mignone, who is working at Swedish Heart & Vascular Institute with a specific focus on its Advanced Heart Failure Program.
Mignone has expertise in cardiac stem cell methods and treatments, and is writing the “Heart Regeneration” chapter for the third edition of “Heart Failure: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease.”
Innovative program to improve diagnosis
Swedish has established an Advanced Heart Failure Program to meet the needs of the growing number of patients diagnosed with heart failure, a serious diagnosis which kills four people a day in King County alone, affecting nearly 5 million people in the U.S.
These patients require comprehensive management with a heart failure cardiologist along with a heart failure program versed in the most up-to-date treatment options and technologies available.
The program is able to provide additional services to patients, including pharmacy, social work, palliative care, genetic screening and rehab medicine.
Program specialists have extensive experience in treating heart failure as well as the multiple co-morbidities usually found in an heart failure patient.
