{"id":37745,"date":"2025-11-06T07:18:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/37745\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T07:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:18:24","slug":"san-antonio-heart-walk-to-honor-st-anthony-catholic-school-student-who-survived-cardiac-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/37745\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Heart Walk to honor St. Anthony Catholic School student who survived cardiac arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A San Antonio family is celebrating their daughter\u2019s recovery and raising awareness about the importance of CPR after a frightening health scare earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">In March, Bianca Ximenez, a sixth grader at St. Anthony\u2019s Catholic School, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/05\/15\/st-anthonys-catholic-school-student-survives-cardiac-arrest-after-quick-actions-from-school-nurse-safd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/05\/15\/st-anthonys-catholic-school-student-survives-cardiac-arrest-after-quick-actions-from-school-nurse-safd\/\">collapsed at school<\/a> after returning from an out-of-state volleyball tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The young athlete went into cardiac arrest at school while she was in PE class. Thanks to the quick action of her school nurse \u2014 who performed CPR \u2014 Bianca\u2019s life was saved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Now, the American Heart Association is honoring Bianca, now in seventh grade, as its \u201cChild Survivor Champion\u201d during this weekend\u2019s San Antonio Heart &amp; Stroke Walk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The event will take place Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025, at Northeast Lakeview College in Universal City. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">More than 5,000 participants are expected to attend the family-friendly event, which includes survivor celebrations and Hands-Only CPR demonstrations designed to train bystanders as lifesavers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Bianca\u2019s mother, Cassandra Ximenez, said she and her family are forever grateful to her school nurse, the SAFD first responders and the doctors and medical staff at Christus Children\u2019s Hospital for saving Bianca\u2019s life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">She said she is also grateful for the awareness the American Heart Association brings to the community and that Bianca is living proof of why CPR training is so important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to the American Heart Association, about nine in ten people who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital do not survive, often because bystander CPR isn\u2019t performed in time. The Heart Walk aims to change that by expanding access to CPR training and building community preparedness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Participants can learn more or register for the event at <a href=\"https:\/\/SanAntonioHeartWalk.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/SanAntonioHeartWalk.org\">SanAntonioHeartWalk.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A San Antonio family is celebrating their daughter\u2019s recovery and raising awareness about the importance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13644,584,7564,82,84,23580,83,23579],"class_list":["post-37745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-american-heart-association","tag-health","tag-northeast-lakeview-college","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-heart-walk","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-st-anthony-catholic-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}