Sixteen years ago, MCVI founded the first women's health conference in the region - the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). The MCVI Foundation continues the tradition of providing community health education specifically for women through the one-day conference filled with humor and fellowship.
Designed by women, for women, WHI encourages women to take time to care for themselves and to hear the messages our bodies send to us.
Save the date for the 17th Annual Women's Health Initiative conference on Friday, May 11, 2012 at Horizons Conference Center. (Continuing nursing education contact hours are available.)
This year marked the fourth year of the MCVI Foundation's Shocks & Saves charity hockey game, created to increase awareness about sudden cardiac arrest and to save more lives.
Each year, close to 300,000 incidences of out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest are reported. Less than 10% of those people will live to be discharged from the hospital. There are simple and proven ways to improve these outcomes - immediate CPR and defibrillator use.
To ensure the best chance for survival, the MCVI Foundation partnered with Detroit Red Wing Jiri Fischer’s Healthy Hope Foundation, Mobile Medical Response and the Saginaw Spirit to raise funds to place automated external defibrillators (AED) in area ice arenas, schools and nonprofit agencies where people gather.
With the funds raised, 75 units have been placed throughout the region and trained approximately 500 in CPR/AED use.
Save the date - January 28, 2012!
On the starting blocks is Run for Your Heart, a partnership between the Foundation and the YMCA of Saginaw, Run for Your Heart offers a 10K run, 5K run or walk and a 1 Mile Fun Run, along with a fitness program to help those who have never run before to prepare for race day - September 8, 2012.
Participants will benefit from before and after health screenings, health-related educational seminars, running clubs and more. C’mon and get up, get out and get moving!
For more information, please contact the Foundation office at (989) 754-7283 (SAVE) or e-mail us.
