MMAE’s “Younger Next Year” luncheon was highlighted on Sunday, April 15th, on WBT’s Health Headlines with Stacey Simms.

Click on the link below to listen to the radio show featuring Chris Crowley, Dr. Russ Greenfield and MMAE co-President Debi Attorri:

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Listen Now: Younger Next Year Luncheon featured on WBT’s Health Headlines with Stacey Simms

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The Mecklenburg Medical Alliance and Endowment would like to thank everyone who purchased a ticket to our Community Health Luncheon, Younger Next Year.  Due to the an overwhelming response by health-conscious Charlotteans, the Luncheon is sold out.

Chris Crowley’s best selling book, Younger Next Year may still be purchased through our book store partner, Park Road Books.  Please enter MMAE in the Order Comments field at checkout and fifteen per cent of each purchase goes to the MMAE Endowment, supporting health projects in the community.

Purchase Younger Next Year books now >>

MMAE’s Annual Community Health Luncheon, Younger Next Year, made the front page of the April 6th Charlotte Observer.

The article,  ”Time to Get Fit and Feel Younger,” written by Karen Garloch, The Charlotte Observer health reporter, featured an interview with Alliance President, Debi Attorri, and Dr. Don Russ of the Mecklenburg Medical Group.

Tickets to the April 22nd event are still available online.

Learn more about MMAE’s Younger Next Year event >>

Purchase tickets now >>

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Time to get fit and feel younger

The Charlotte Observer
Posted: Monday, Apr. 05, 2010

Every year, the Mecklenburg Medical Alliance sponsors a symposium on a health topic. This year, the subject is aging. Or rather, how to postpone aging.

The idea arose because many members of the alliance, a group of doctors’ spouses, are patients of Dr. Donald Russ.

For several years, the longtime Charlotte physician has been urging patients to read a book called “Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit and Sexy – Until You’re 80 and Beyond.”

Russ read it himself a few years ago, and it changed his life. He got back into the habit of exercising, lost 38 pounds in three months and feels better at 62 than he did at 52.

“If you take care of the machinery,” he says, “you can feel as good in your 80s as you did in your 50s and 60s.”

That’s the message in the book, co-authored by Dr. Henry “Harry” Lodge, a New York doctor, and Chris Crowley, his 70-something patient.

Read more of the Charlotte Observer article, “Time to Get Fit and Feel Younger” >>

Almost two years ago, the Mecklenburg Medical Alliance and Endowment (MMAE) and Medic formed a partnership aimed at increased cardiac arrest survival. Calling it the Lucky Hearts Campaign, a key element was the distribution of AEDs (defibrillators) along with training in their use.

Medic provided the training and, upon completion of certification, MMAE provided, through funds from its Endowment, the church/school/nonprofit with the gift of an AED for use in their community. To date, MMAE has distributed 42 defibrillators; Medic has trained 1290 individuals.

One year ago, Democratic State Congresswoman Becky Carney, personally learned the value of an AED. While sitting at her desk in Raleigh, she experienced a cardiac arrest and was revived through the use of a defibrillator. On April 1, Carney was present when 20 AED’s were donated in her honor to the Lucky Hearts Campaign.

Read more on how Becky Carney contributed to Lucky Hearts in the Charlotte Observer >>

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For Immediate Release

Charlotte, NC
February 10, 2020

Mecklenburg Medical Alliance and Endowment (MMAE) and their partners, Medic, announced the donation of 14 AEDs to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System (CMS) through the Lucky Hearts Campaign, an AED/CPR focused

initiative started by the two organizations in 2009. Medic will also be training 140 individuals from across the CMS high schools that are receiving an AED in both CPR and AED usage over the course of the next two months.

With this donation, all CMS high schools will now have at least two AEDs on campus; one for the campus itself and one for athletics. This donation and training is valued at more than $30,000.

“We are very pleased to be able to partner with CMS and help them realize their goal of providing the safest possible environment for their students, faculty and community members,” said MMAE President Debi Faubion. “Sudden cardiac arrest will kill more than a half million people in the United States this year, and no one can say when or where it will occur. By outfitting our schools with AEDs and providing training to faculty and students, we are insuring that life-saving measures can be taken in a timely fashion should the unthinkable occur on one of CMS’s campuses; this investment very well could make the difference between life and death for a member of this community.”

Since January 2009, the Lucky Hearts Campaign has trained a total of 940 Mecklenburg County residents in CPR and AED usage. The campaign has also donated a total of 36 AEDs throughout the county.

“One of the surest ways to increase survival rates for people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest is to train members of the community to step in and intervene as a bystander by performing effective CPR and utilizing an AED, should one be available,” said Medic’s Director of Public Relations, Jeff Keith. “This is done through public education, aggressive training initiatives and widespread deployment of AEDs. The Lucky Hearts Campaign is committed to carrying this message throughout the community for as long as it takes to see AEDs and trained bystanders as prevalent as fire extinguishers.”

If interested in nominating a business or an organization for an AED or to make a financial donation to the Lucky Hearts Campaign, which will help provide more AEDs in the community, please visit www.LuckyHearts.com or www.MMAEonline.com. The campaign will continue to train and donate AEDs to approved organizations through 2010 and beyond.

Mecklenburg Medical Alliance and Endowment is a non-profit organization that seeks to advocate for a healthier Charlotte-Mecklenburg County. The organization’s membership is primarily made up of physician’s spouses from across Mecklenburg County.

Medic has served as Mecklenburg County’s EMS Agency since 1978. With more than 400 employees and a fleet consisting of more than 90 emergency response assets, including ambulances, mass casualty vehicles, ATVs and paramedic equipped bicycles, Medic will respond to at least 95,000 calls received by the Agency’s 911 emergency response dispatch center in 2010 alone. For more information about Medic, please log on to the Agency’s website at www.medic911.com.

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