Young Hearts For Life Coming to ICCP and ICGS

IC Catholic Prep and Immaculate Conception Grade School students, ages 12 years and older, have the opportunity to receive a FREE heart screening on Thursday, January 19, 2017, from 8am-3pm in the IC Gym.

Thanks to Young Hearts for Life and the Eileen McMahon Memorial Fund, the students from both schools will have the chance to receive this potentially lifesaving test at no cost (valued at $75-$150). Each week, sudden cardiac death claims the lives of 60 young adults. Sports physicals will only detect less than 4% of the students at risk. An EKG has the ability to detect 70% of students at risk for these life threatening cardiac conditions.

Young Hearts for Life is the largest screening program in the United States. They have screened over 160,000 students and have identified over 2,000 students that had an undetected cardiac condition. A trained Cardiologist interprets the ECG's obtained during testing. The false abnormal rate for the program is less than 2% - a rate that is better than the false abnormal rate for other screenings in healthcare. Results of the screening are only provided to the parent and are considered privacy protected healthcare information.

IC Catholic Prep is the oldest Catholic, coeducational college prep high school in DuPage County. Located in Elmhurst, ICCP is a regional high school that serves students from over thirty-five communities in the western suburbs. For more information, please check the web-site at www.ICCatholicPrep.org .