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| December 13, 2006 | Take It To Heart presentation at the Superintendents'/Vocational Directors' Council Meeting |
| December, 2006 | Take It To Heart "Electrocardiograms for Youth" Program receives a grant from The Medtronic Heart-Rescue Foundation |
| October, 2006 | Take It To Heart becomes a Project of The Foundation For Enhancing Communities |
| May 13, 2006 | 2nd annual free and voluntary Take It To Heart cardiac screening event for 8th - 12th grade students in Central PA |
| October 18, 2005 | Speaking engagement featuring Rhonda Foster, R.N. and Irene Edmunds
Lebanon County School Nurses
Attendance: 25 school nurses
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| June 13, 2005 | "Community Takes Children's Health to Heart" by Rhonda L. Foster in Advance for Nurses Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 13. Review of cardiac screening event on May 14, 2005 for the Regional News section. |
| May 14, 2005 | 1st free Take It To Heart voluntary cardiac screening event offering free electrocardiograms and echocardiograms, for 8-12th grade students in Susquehanna Township. This was a joint and voluntary effort between Cardiologists, Physician's Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses and Technicians from Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, PinnacleHealth System, and South Central EMS, as well as parents and students. |
| April 21, 2005 | Speaking engagement featuring Rhonda Foster, R.N.
Pennsylvania Tri-County School Nurses Association
Attendance: approx. 30 school nurses
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| March 7, 2005 | Rhonda Foster, Irene and Tom Edmunds featured in front page article in The Patriot-News "School institutes new test — for students' hearts" by Jack Sherzer |
| November 8, 2004 | Speaking engagement featuring Rhonda Foster, R.N. and Irene Edmunds
Fifth Annual Pediatric Conference "Touching the Future of Children"
Sponsored by: PennState Children's Hospital at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Attendance: approx. 30 pediatric nurses
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| November 2, 2004 | Speaking engagement featuring Rhonda Foster, R.N.
Town of Fairfield Health Department
Fairfield, Connecticut
Attendance: approx. 40 school nurses
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| October 12, 2004 | Speaking engagement featuring Rhonda Foster, R.N. and Jerry C. Luck, M.D.
Fishburn Family Medicine
Penn State Hershey Medical Center University Physician Group
Attendance: 2 physicians, 3 nurse practitioners
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| October 1, 2004 | Speaking engagement featuring Rhonda Foster, R.N.
Baltimore (MD) County Public School Nurses
at Randallstown High School
Attendance: approx. 50 school nurses
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| October, 2004 | Interview and article featuring Janna April Becker, Kyle Derek Edmunds, and Nicholas Ryan Over published in Harrisburg Magazine
"Teens and Heart Disease" by Crystal Riale
Volume 10, Number 10, page 18
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| September 13, 2004 | Speaking engagement at the University of Hartford featuring Rhonda Foster, R.N.
Connecticut School Nurses (encompassed all of the CT school nurses, and all areas of the state were represented)
Attendance: approx. 25 school nurses
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| August 19, 2004 | Rhonda Foster, R.N., Speaker at the American Heart Association
Central PA Capital Region Heart Walk Kick-Off Event
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| June 5, 2004 | Speaking engagement featuring Rhonda Foster, R.N. and Jerry C. Luck, M.D.
Health Update for Pediatric and School Nurses
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center College of Medicine and Dept. of Nursing
Attendance: approx. 100 nurses
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| April 12, 2004 | "Cardiac Disease Can Kill Kids, Too" by Rhonda L. Becker (Foster) published in Advance for Nurses Magazine |
| March 23, 2004 | Take It To Heart™ Booth Exhibit
PA Department of Health "Fifth Annual Regional School Health Update"
Attendance: 103 school nurses
Certified school nurses: 87 representing 39 different school entities from 12 different counties within the South Central District Office region
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| October 13, 2003 | Speaking engagement featuring Rhonda Foster, R.N. and Jerry C. Luck, M.D.
for PinnacleHealth
The Learning Institute School Nurse Update
Attendance: approx. 100 certified school nurses
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| July 18, 2003 | Rhonda Foster, R.N. is invited by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Health to become a member of the Risk Factor Detection and Control Group of the newly-established Pennsylvania Cardiovascular Health Consortium in order to develop the first-ever stakeholder-driven statewide Cardiovascular Health Plan for Pennsylvania.
Purpose: To disseminate clear, concise, and comprehensive messages to health professionals and the public, preferably via existing, accessible, culturally relevant communication infrastructures in an effort to engage all Pennsylvanians in risk factor awareness and control initiatives.
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"Obstacles don't have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
~ Michael Jordan |
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