Lions of Michigan Service Foundation
Robert H. Mathog Lions Hearing Centers
About Us
The Lions Hearing Center, founded in 2000, is a non-profit that serves southeastern Michigan by helping the deaf and hard of hearing. We provide hearing screening services to thousands of children and adults each year, provide affordable hearing aids to those in need and help deaf children and their families find resources and support.
We partner with Wayne State University, Michigan Ear Institute and Lions clubs throughout the region to help us deliver our services.
Since 2011 – the Lions Hearing Center has provided over 15 scholarships to deaf students who reside in Michigan. The financial challenges that deaf students have are much higher than a hearing student due to the costs of note takers, interpreters, and special equipment.
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Lions Clubs in your community are part of a world-wide service organization that has worked since 1917 to help those who are blind, deaf/hard of hearing, and in need. As an extension of that international mission, the Lions Hearing Centers were founded by Dr. Robert H. Mathog in 1999 as a partnership between Lions Districts 11A1, 11A2 and the Departments of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Wayne State University and Detroit Medical Center.
Today, our services include hearing screenings, educational programs, working with the deaf community, implementing outreach efforts throughout southeastern Michigan, and partnering with dozens of organizations to provide hearing care for all.
"Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people."
- Helen Keller
Dr. Robert H. Mathog, MD
From 1977, until his death in October 2014, Dr. Robert H. Mathog served as professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Wayne State University, and he was also chief of Otolaryngology at Harper and Detroit Receiving hospitals from 1977 to 2007.
As a staunch supporter of our Michigan Lions Clubs’ efforts to fight hearing loss and provide affordable hearing aids for people in our state, Dr. Mathog established our first Lions Hearing Center at Detroit Medical Center in the year 1999, and he served as president and chair of the hearing until 2014.
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Volunteering
The LHC annually provides free hearing screenings to hundreds of children, adults, and seniors throughout the region. The LHC is in need of volunteers to help with this outreach effort.
If you are a Lions member – and interested in providing hearing screening at senior centers, housing facilities, and health fairs – we can use your help.
We are looking for volunteers willing to work during week day, business hours and some weekends – in Macomb, Monroe, Oakland and Wayne counties.
If you and/or your club are interested in providing screenings, or interested in other volunteer opportunities – please call 517-887-6640 or click the button below.