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HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS

The Living Heart Foundation provides a project manager to work with your school, coordinating all of the preliminary work, actual screenings, results reporting, follow-up programs, and website interactions with your trainers and coaches.

We provide pamphlets explaining each screening, its value, the results, and what should be done.  We also provide a letter to each student and parent confirming the screening, the date, and the time of that screening.

A "Screening Day" is selected, and the Foundation brings the state-of-the-art computerized medical testing equipment to your location along with our staff of technicians.  A typical screening day runs six to eight hours and can provide the battery of screening tests to anywhere from sixty to one-hundred students.  To efficiently keep things moving, we strongly suggest establishing appointments in advance for the students.  Each test takes from five to fifteen minutes.

The screening results are then sent to our team of medical doctors for interpretations and reports.

The results are strictly confidential, reported directly to the students or parents.  at the student's request, any or all information will be made available to the student's individual physician, the athletic trainer, coach, nurse, or team doctor.  This information is maintained in our secure, confidential database for future reference and tracking as needed.  On a regular basis, the student meets in follow-up  with the trainer/nurse; together, they track progress and interact with the medical faculty via website.

A statistical-based group report may also be shared with the school, and can be tracked as the student-group progresses.  Subsequent screenings demonstrate the results of intervention and our inter-active programs.

LHF will coordinate with the school, its trainers and coaches, to establish any necessary programs and follow up for the students.  Our website provides additional information, and allows for secured, confidential access by participating physicians.  In addition, email interactions permit contact with our world-class medical faculty.

THE COST:

These screenings and follow-up programs are seldom provided for people in this age range, not because of a lack of need, but because of the high expense.  Typically, a battery of tests and programs similar to ours would cost $3,000 per student through traditional health care.

However, the LHF is able to provide these screenings, reports, database creation, and follow-up tracking/program for $200 to $300 per student.   The program lasts for one year.