GOOD WORKS SA: Losing son inspires creation of AugustHeart

Ten years after Bart Koontz's teenage son died, his voice wavers with emotion as he recounts the morning August never woke due to an undetected heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. A few years later, in 2011, Bart and Dore Koontz founded AugustHeart with a bold vision: to establish and fund a rapid, low-cost, scalable cardiovascular screening model. Their goal was a free communitywide cardiac screening program for all teens in Bexar County to minimize the risks of sudden car diac arrest,…
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