Leadership Whitley County supports women's health initiative through Parkview Whitley Hospital
(Talk of the Town photos by Dillon Sheiss) Parkview Whitley Hospital chief operations officer John Meister, left, receives a donation from Kelley Sheiss of Leadership Whitley County to assist with costs of a women’s health assessment offered during the recent Heartbeats Festival. Below, Sheiss submits to the needle, wincing as she participates in the women’s health assessment test.
By Jennifer Zartman Romano 
We probably all know of someone we love who tragically left our lives because of a heart attack. There might have been warning signs – seen and unseen – that might have prevented that from happening.
While we cannot save those we’ve lost, we can help women in the future in Whitley County.
For this reason, Leadership Whitley County and Parkview Whitley Hospital recently teamed up for Rhapsody in Red, a dinner dance for women’s heart health in Whitley County. Proceeds from the event were donated to Parkview Whitley Hospital to underwrite some of the costs associated with a special wellness test for women covering critical areas of heart health. The test was offered to Heartbeats Festival attendees on May 3 for $30 per person.
Kelley Sheiss, director of Leadership Whitley County, presented a check to Parkview Health chief operations officer John Meister on May 3 to defray some costs of providing the test.
Sheiss, who lost her mother to a fatal heart attack several years ago, took part in the health assessment personally – hoping to show by example that local women of all ages need to be concerned with their heart health.