DCMH announces remaining slots for youth heart screening event
Decatur County Memorial Hospital still has a few youth heart-screening slots left for July 28 at Health Connect, where each student gets an ECG and limited echo for $20.
Decatur County Memorial Hospital still has a few appointment slots left for its youth cardiac screening on July 28 at Health Connect on the Decatur County Family YMCA campus. The screening is aimed at local students and young adults, and DCMH is billing it as a low-cost $20 preventive check that families can use before the school year and fall activities pick up.
Each participant will receive an electrocardiogram and a limited echocardiogram, with the tests performed by a registered cardiac sonographer and the results read by pediatric cardiologists. DCMH says each screening should take about 10 to 12 minutes, and the images will be stored in the family’s secure account for future access.
The event is being offered by Giving Hearts a Hand in partnership with Decatur County Memorial Hospital Health Connect and is sponsored by the MCORE Foundation. MCORE says its baseline cardiac screening program is designed for youth ages 12 to 22, and the foundation says traditional pediatric exams miss 96% of youth at risk for sudden cardiac arrest. That is the risk these screenings are meant to catch early, before a problem turns into an emergency on the field, in the gym or at home.
DCMH has used the same setup before. A similar youth heart-screening event held on July 28, 2025, drew 30 students from Greensburg Junior and Senior High, North Decatur Junior and Senior High, South Decatur Junior and Senior High and St. Mary’s Catholic School. Hospital officials described that event as a potentially life-saving service and part of the hospital’s effort to make preventive care more accessible to local families.
Health Connect itself has become part of that push. The site opened on July 11, 2022, at the Decatur County Family YMCA campus as DCMH worked to expand care closer to home. Community support has also helped keep the screenings going, including $7,500 that the Hospital Foundation of Decatur County distributed in 2024 for DCMH preventive health screening events.
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