Lois Horvitz, an early advocate of widespread CPR training, died of cancer July 23, according to a Cleveland.com report.
Ms. Horvitz was 88.
Ms. Horvitz learned CPR from Claude S. Beck, MD, a cardiac surgeon and CPR advocate she met at a dinner party in 1962. She later started Resuscitators of America and formed an advisory board of cardiologists to support the technique.
After her husband Harry R. Horvitz died in 1992 from prostate cancer, Ms. Horvitz created the Harry R. Horvitz Center for Palliative Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.
She also served on boards of two Rancho Mirage, Calif.-based hospitals: Eisenhower Medical Center and the Betty Ford Center.
"She gave more than money. She gave the idea, the inspiration, the enthusiasm to the project," said Betty Ford Center Foundation president John Boop, according to a report in The Desert Sun.
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