Forty-three-year-old Michael walked into the George Washington University Hospital Emergency Room complaining of chest pain. The Washington D.C. handyman had no health insurance but was not eligible for any financial assistance programs.
Our Mission
The mission of the Larry King Cardiac Foundation is to provide funding for life saving cardiac procedures for individuals who, due to limited means and no insurance, would be otherwise unable to receive life saving treatment.
Quest Diagnostics becomes a Spotlight Partner
The Larry King Cardiac Foundation (LKCF) is pleased to announce the involvement of Quest Diagnostics as a LKCF Spotlight Partner. Quest Diagnostics offers specialized cardiovascular disease management services through their subsidiary Celera, a gene discovery company, and Berkeley HeartLab, a clinical laboratory service of Quest Diagnostics that specializes in personalized advanced cardiovascular disease risk markers. This new partnership will add to the existing services of the LKCF by providing advanced blood and genetic tests used in the diagnosis and management of patients with atherosclerosis at no charge to the patient.
