The Long Island Board of Realtors® Nassau South Shore Chapter recently presented a check in the amount of $7,500 to the Cohen Children’s Medical Center Pediatric Cardiology Unit.  The funds were raised in recognition of the Jason F. Gruen Foundation at the Chapter’s Annual Charity Event held last June at the Bridgeview Yacht Club in Island Park. 

The Jason Gruen Foundation was founded by Susan Gruen Helsinger, LIBOR Nassau Vice President, when her son, Jason, died suddenly while walking into his first period class at Manhasset High School in 1985.  Jason died of an undetected heart condition known as Idiopathic Hypertrophic Subaortic Stenosis and Cardiomyopathy. The foundation raises money and awareness for children with heart ailments as well as providing services such as free heart screenings for children at public schools.  This is an extremely important program that has received a great amount of attention and many awards. For more information on echocardiogram and EKG screening programs please visit http://www.thejasongruenfoundation.org/.

Pictured at the presentation are (l-r) Morty Kaplan, NSSC Vice President, Carol Gallo-Turschmann, NSSC President elect; Gloria Rabson, NSSC President, Dr. Rubin Cooper, MD Chief, Pediatric Cardiology; Susan Helsinger, LIBOR Nassau Vice President; Marian Fraker-Gutin, LIBOR past president and Dr. Russell Schiff, MD  Chief, Pediatric Cardiology, Huntington Hospital.