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for the work that saves lives.

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$ 25.00
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$ 50.00
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$ 75.00

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$ 100.00

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$ 150.00

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$ 250.00
Saves one life!

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This year, Oct. 6, 2009, marks Anthony’s 30th birthday, and 10 birthday’s without his life breath.  We also mark an ABF milestone of over 6,000 youth screened with 600 lives saved.

 

Anthony Bates Foundation (ABF) brings life-saving heart screenings to the heart of your community - free of charge - but needs your donations to save more kids.  Please help us save more lives through your tax-deductible donations to the Anthony Bates Foundation Cardiac Screening Program.

 

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a leading killer of young people & athletes in this country.  Many of these deaths could be prevented by heart screenings for children.  ABF provides free and low cost heart screening events, which detect undiagnosed heart problems in approximately 10% of the young people screened.  One of those could be your child or a child you know.

 

Here are some frightening facts about kids and heart disease:

 

  • Heart disease kills more children than any other disease except cancer.*
  • 14,000 children die each year from heart disease.**
  • One in 500 people have life-threatening HCM and most are unaware.
  • Out of 10 million Jr/High school athletes, 1,000,000 are at risk Sudden Cardiac Arrest from undetected heart problems.

And here’s the welcome news about heart screenings:

 

  • Heart screenings detect problems like HCM in 10% - one in ten - of people screened.
  • People with HCM can live long, healthy lives, with early diagnosis and care.
  • With proper screening, we could save the lives of 10,000 children each year or more.
  • ABF provides heart screenings, free of charge, to children across the country.

Here’s what your donation can do:

 

  • $25 pays for a heart screening for one young person
  • $50 pays for heart screenings for two young people
  • $250 Premium Donation pays for ten heart screenings and can SAVE THE LIFE of that one person in ten who has a preventable heart problem. (++ see note)

            ______any other amount can help with screenings, staff and administrative costs

  

Make your tax-deductible check or money order payable to:

            Anthony Bates Foundation

            428 E. Thunderbird Rd., # 633

            Phoenix, AZ  85022

 

Help us build our circle of friends by forwarding this message to people in your address book, too! Thank you!

 

Source: * American Heart Association            ** Center for Disease Control & Heart Rhythm Society

 

For more info call (602) 482-5606 or email Sharon@AnthonyBates.org.

 

The Anthony Bates Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization formed in 2002.  We are dedicated to saving young lives through early detection of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM).  The Anthony Bates Foundation is actively promoting public outreach programs through education and awareness for the need to provide heart screening events for our youth.  We offer training for groups that would like to provide their own events or The Anthony Bates Foundation can coordinate events in your area.  Our goal is to promote heart health education and awareness of HCM.

 

Through the tireless efforts of our staff and volunteers we have organized 61 Cardiac Screening Days since 2001, across the USA.  We have provided more than 6,000 free and low cost echocardiograms and ECG tests to young people.  Each screening done at a hospital or cardiologist’s office could cost a family as much as $1,600 and most insurance companies do not pay for preventative cardiac screenings for young people.  Through our ABF screenings, as many as 10% of those screened have become aware of undiagnosed heart issues.  Plus, our Community Screening training program has reached other parents and organizations interested in providing screenings in over 29 states and 4 countries in Europe. 

 

“As parents, we want to do the right thing for our child’s health, but who considers a child could have heart disease?  Community Cardiac Screenings are a great opportunity for the life of your child.”

 

Heart Screening Quest 2020 is intended to screen 1,000,000 youth by the outreach of our offering our Community Cardiac Screening Training program to people interested in saving the lives of youth.

 

Per Statistical data already stated, since Anthony’s death in 2000, out of 70,000 to 140,000 who died, 50,400 died from HCM and may have been preventable.  There are currently 10 million high school athletes in our country and 10% are at risk of SCA – 1 million youth need your help!

 

Help prevent the heart break of losing a child to an undiagnosed cardiac malady by supporting the Anthony Bates Foundation’s establishment of a nationwide heart screening program for all children.

 

With Respect and Honor,

 

Sharon Bates

CEO/Founder

The Anthony Bates Foundation

www.AnthonyBates.org

 

“Screening young hearts…Saving young lives”