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It was standing room only at
Excela Health’s Ninth Annual
Golden Hour Student
Scholarship program. More
than 90 students, parents
and teachers gathered April
8 at Excela Health Latrobe
Hospital to recognize 21
project finalists from nine
area high schools.
Angel Palombo, Greater
Latrobe High School and
Jocelyn Gruskiewicz and Sara
Sweeney of Yough High
School, share the $1,000
scholarship prizes for their
winning projects. Sixteen
$100 cash prizes also were
awarded to the other
finalists.
Participating students
represented Derry Area,
Greater Latrobe, Greensburg
Central Catholic, Greensburg
Salem, Jeannette, Ligonier
Valley, Mount Pleasant Area
and Yough high schools, as
well as Eastern Westmoreland
Career and Technical Center.
The “Golden Hour” program
was conceived in the mid
1990s by retired Latrobe
Area Hospital Emergency
Department director Richard
Kunkle, MD, as a means of
educating the public about
the critical importance or
prompt and professional
treatment for someone
experiencing the signs and
symptoms of a heart attack.
Now under the auspices of
Excela Health, the “Golden
Hour” program includes a
school-based component and a
speaker’s bureau.
In the school-based program,
students receive classroom
instruction, conduct
research and develop a
“Golden Hour” display. Part
of the project includes
interviewing five family
members regarding their
medical history and sharing
the importance of the
“Golden Hour” message.
In addition to the school
programs, free speaker’s
bureau presentations are
available to churches,
organizations and businesses
by calling Excela Health’s
Call Center, 1-877-771-1234.
“Golden Hour” wallet cards
outlining signs and symptoms
also are available free of
charge.
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