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Your Heart, Our Mount Community

We’re excited to announce that Ó£ÌÒɬ¸£Àû¼§ is participating in the Heart Mini Marathon and Walk to support the American Heart Association! Together, we aim to raise $5,000 to make a meaningful impact on heart health awareness and research. Stay tuned for more exciting events coming in January as we gear up for this meaningful event. Together, we can meet our goal, build community spirit, and make a difference.

Encourage your students, coworkers, friends, and family to join the fun – the more, the merrier! Stay tuned for more exciting events coming in January as we gear up for this meaningful event.

Here’s how you can get involved:

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Special Offer: The first 20 Ó£ÌÒɬ¸£Àû¼§ students to register using the Ó£ÌÒɬ¸£Àû¼§2025 special code will receive $25 off their registration fee! 

Ó£ÌÒɬ¸£Àû¼§ Heart Mini Team Fundraiser

Thanks to the quick and skilled actions of a Skyline employee trained in CPR, one our very own Ó£ÌÒɬ¸£Àû¼§ community members survived a sudden cardiac arrest--receiving critical care before emergency responders arrived.

Join us in supporting the Ó£ÌÒɬ¸£Àû¼§ Heart Mini Team as we raise funds for the American Heart Association while celebrating Skyline on Delhi and the heroic employee whose quick actions saved a life! Can't make it? You can still support us by scanning the QR code in the flyer (with events details) here!

Cincinnati Heart Mini Event details

In-person Event: 2025 Cincinnati Heart Mini

  • Date: Sunday, March 16, 2025

Packet Pickup

If registered by Feb. 16, 2025, your packet will get mailed. Packet pickup is on March 16 downtown, or day of race.

Schedule of Events

  • 7:30 a.m. Heart Half Marathon
  • 7:30 a.m. 15K Heart Mini
  • 9:30 a.m. Cut off for Half Marathon runners to reach the 9 mile mark
  • 10 a.m. 1K Steps for Stroke
  • 10:30 a.m. 1.5K Kids Race
  • 11 a.m. 5K Heart Walk

 

Hear the Mount Community's Heartwarming Stories

Julie Tolbert

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In photo: Julie Tolbert on left with Jordan 

My name is Julie and I am an Ó£ÌÒɬ¸£Àû¼§ employee. It was a normal Sunday on January 28, 2024 nothing out of the ordinary. My youngest son and I were meeting my dad at Skyline on Delhi Avenue for lunch. As we waited for our order to be taken, I started feeling off and my eyes got heavy like dark black curtains coming down on a stage.

I thought to myself oh..oh.. and my eyes closed.

Then they opened and I was on the floor at Skyline with three men hoovering over me and I knew instantly they were Delhi EMTs. They asked me if I knew where I was and I told them at Skyline. Then they told me that my heart stopped for at least 3 minutes but a worker at Skyline knew CPR and got my heart beating til they could use their AED to shock me and get my heart stable to take me to the hospital. They kept telling me how lucky I was that she knew CPR.

The Skyline worker saved my life by knowing CPR and doing it correctly in which several of my ribs and sternum were cracked. I have never been that happy before to be in pain because it kept me alive. I read a statistic that only 10 percent of people who have a cardiac arrest outside of the hospital live.  Most people who perform CPR are in the healthcare profession.  I am very pleased to see people outside of the healthcare profession, learning to do CPR, myself included.

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In photo: Julie Tolbert with Ó£ÌÒɬ¸£Àû¼§ faculty and staff coworkers.

I went to Skyline to meet the person that saved my life but she was not there that day, but I know her name and many of the workers there knew my story including a worker that was there that day. I really hope to be able to thank Jordan in person for learning CPR and that I am alive to personally thank her.

The Mount Community truly rallied around me during a difficult time. Their support, prayers, and well wishes helped me through my recovery. I'm incredibly grateful for their love and care.

Tim Budai

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On May 20, 2024, I came home from work at Ó£ÌÒɬ¸£Àû¼§ and spent the evening mowing lawns for my landscaping business. After dinner, I felt a sharp heartburn in my back. I drank water, took ibuprofen, and went to bed once it passed. For the next two days, though, heartburn hit every time I ate.

Concerned, I saw my doctor, who prescribed heartburn meds and ran an EKG and bloodwork. Hours later, I got an urgent call—my troponin levels were high, a marker for a heart attack.

At the ER, tests showed nothing abnormal at first. But days later, a second heart catheterization revealed three blockages and a partial one. Open-heart surgery followed to repair the damage, using a donor artery from my leg.

I’d always been proactive with yearly physicals but knew little of my family's heart history due to early losses. My experience taught me the importance of listening to your body and acting fast when something feels wrong.

Heart disease doesn’t always show itself in obvious ways—but it’s worth fighting for the life you love.