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Celebrate Heart Month with Exempla

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Contributed by: Exempla Healthcare on 1/31/2006

For several years, Exempla Healthcare has partnered with the American Heart Association, and to show our proud support of this important mission, Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center will be holding a red-dress fashion show and lighting a gigantic red heart that will hang outside of our Emergency Department. These events will take place on Feb. 1 at Good Samaritan Medical Center, to celebrate the beginning of American Heart Month.

Education about heart health and nutrition begins at an early age, and that’s why all three hospitals of Exempla Healthcare, as part of Go Red for Women Day, are collecting red dresses for little girls up to the age of 10. The red dress symbolizes the healthy hearts of our future generations. The dresses collected at Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center, Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital and Exempla Lutheran Medical Center will be donated to various charities and given to children in need. The dresses collected at Good Samaritan will be donated to little girls from The Parenting Place in Boulder. They will be modeling their new dresses Feb. 1 at 1 p.m. in the hospital’s Conference Room A.

Later in the day, Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center President Dave Hamm will be lighting a 16 foot by 16 foot red heart, which will remain lit 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Lafayette mayor Chris Berry will be attending, as well as other community dignitaries, hospital employees and American Heart Association Representatives. The heart symbolizes Exempla Good Samaritan’s continued commitment to educate the community about the importance of heart health.

WHAT: Red Dress Fashion Show
WHEN: Wednesday, Feb. 1, 1 p.m.
WHERE: Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center, Conference Room A
200 Exempla Circle, Lafayette

WHAT: Heart-lighting Ceremony
WHEN: Wednesday, Feb. 1, 5 p.m.
WHERE: Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center, west side of building near Emergency Department entrance
200 Exempla Circle, Lafayette

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