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  • Ambassador Training
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    • Closer to Plant Based
    • Heart of a Man
    • Feel the HeartBeat
    • HeartSmarts en Español
    • Education
    • HeartSmarts Challenge
  • Ambassador Spotlight
    • Beverly Bruin
    • Dr. Cheryl James
    • Marva Wade
    • HeartSmarts in Haiti
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Welcome

The purpose of HeartSmarts is to empower people to live heart healthy lifestyles. Cardiovascular disease, which includes coronary heart   disease and stroke, is the leading cause of death in the United States.   Blacks and Hispanics in underserved communities are at the greatest  risk  for both heart disease and stroke. The good news is that  cardiovascular  disease is largely preventable. The goal of the  HeartSmarts program is  to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular  disease.  

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Program Mission

Ambassador Training

Ambassador Training

 The goal of the HeartSmarts program is to increase the knowledge of  heart disease and its prevention in underserved, high risk communities.  Read more about the HeartSmarts program here. 

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Ambassador Training

Ambassador Training

Ambassador Training

 Through “HeartSmarts” we would like to partner with your organization to  educate the members about heart disease and its prevention. Learn more  about the Ambassador Training 

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In the Community

Ambassador Training

In the Community

 HeartSmarts ambassadors provide various services in their communities  including blood pressure screening and cardiovascular health  information. 

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Ambassador Spotlight

Ambassador Spotlight

Ambassador Spotlight

HeartSmarts Ambassadors come from various backgrounds. Some are heart attack survivors while others are community activists. Learn more about them here. 

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Success Stories

Ambassador Spotlight

Ambassador Spotlight

Participants of the HeartSmarts program have made various changes that  have helped to improve their health. Read more about these changes and  success stories here. 

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HandsOnly CPR

Ambassador Spotlight

HandsOnly CPR

Knowing CPR can be a matter of life and death. Participants of the  HeartSmarts program have the opportunity to be trained in CPR. Read more  here 

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Meet the team

The HeartSmarts Team: Dr. Naa-Solo Tettey and Dr. Holly Andersen

A Message from Dr. Naa-Solo Tettey HeartSmarts Creator and Director

 The HeartSmarts research program was developed to educate communities about cardiovascular health in a unique way.  Since 2011, HeartSmarts participants have increased their knowledge about cardiovascular health, improved their blood pressure, and lost weight. Participants have also improved their health behaviors. HeartSmarts has been recognized as a model for community based health promotion. We hope to continue to expand the program and reach new communities. The work of the HeartSmarts ambassadors is much needed and we are grateful for their dedication.   

A Message from Dr. Holly Andersen, Director of Education and Outreach, The Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute

 Life is a gift – it should be celebrated, but it should also be cared  for. Heart disease is the number one cause of death for both men and  women worldwide. There is nowhere that it strikes harder than in our  African American communities. This disease is largely preventable, and  we at the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute strongly believe that  increasing our society’s understanding of this disease through the  HeartSmarts program will save lives. 

PROGRAMS

HEARTSMARTS PART ONE: WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT IS LIFE

HEARTSMARTS PART ONE: WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT IS LIFE

HEARTSMARTS PART ONE: WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT IS LIFE

The original 12-week HeartSmarts program that focuses on the basics of disease.  

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HEARTSMARTS PART TWO: CLOSER TO PLANT BASED

HEARTSMARTS PART ONE: WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT IS LIFE

HEARTSMARTS PART ONE: WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT IS LIFE

Follow-up program to HeartSmarts part one that focuses on the power of plant based nutrition in overall health. 

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HEARTSMARTS: FEEL THE HEARTBEAT

HEARTSMARTS PART ONE: WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT IS LIFE

HEARTSMARTS: FEEL THE HEARTBEAT

Culturally tailored exercise program aimed at increasing physical activity and improving overall health. 

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HEARTSMARTS: THE HEART OF A MAN

HEARTSMARTS SPANISH LANGUAGE CLASSES

HEARTSMARTS: FEEL THE HEARTBEAT

Men only HeartSmarts classes with a specific focus on the health issues that impact men.

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HEARTSMARTS SPANISH LANGUAGE CLASSES

HEARTSMARTS SPANISH LANGUAGE CLASSES

HEARTSMARTS SPANISH LANGUAGE CLASSES

HeartSmarts en Espanol provides the curriculum for all HeartSmarts classes in Spanish. 

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HEARTSMARTS: FOR CLINICAL SETTINGS

HEARTSMARTS SPANISH LANGUAGE CLASSES

HEARTSMARTS SPANISH LANGUAGE CLASSES

Secular HeartSmarts classes tailored specifically for clinical and other non-faith based settings. 

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HeartSmarts Classes

    HeartSmarts Program Overview Video

    HeartSmarts In the News

    Harlem Times: Faith-Based Program Helps Congregations Become Heart Smart

    Harlem Times: Faith-Based Program Helps Congregations Become Heart Smart

    Harlem Times: Faith-Based Program Helps Congregations Become Heart Smart

    Before Reverend Dr. Rose Ellington Murray became a HeartSmarts  Ambassador, she wasn’t practicing what she was preaching when it came to  her health.


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    New York Times: In Church, Using the Bible as a Guide for Healthy Living

    Harlem Times: Faith-Based Program Helps Congregations Become Heart Smart

    Harlem Times: Faith-Based Program Helps Congregations Become Heart Smart

     A program seeks to use faith and lessons from the Bible to persuade minority congregants of churches throughout New York to embrace healthier lifestyles. 

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    New York Daily News: HeartSmarts Classes Preach Benefits of Heart-Healthy Lifestyle

    Through community outreach, students and faculty tackle health disparities among New Yorkers

    Through community outreach, students and faculty tackle health disparities among New Yorkers

     Dr. Naa-Solo Tettey teaches a class of HeartSmarts, the faith-based  cardiovascular health education program created by Tettey in 2011 to improve health outcomes. 

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    Through community outreach, students and faculty tackle health disparities among New Yorkers

    Through community outreach, students and faculty tackle health disparities among New Yorkers

    Through community outreach, students and faculty tackle health disparities among New Yorkers

    The HeartSmarts program at the Perelman Institute highlights the important role that  religion can play in disease prevention efforts in underserved  communities. 

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    HOW RACISM AFFECTS HEALTH

    Race and Cardiovascular Disease

     It is now well documented that there are profound race-associated  disparities among those who are affected by and die from cardiovascular  disease. These disparities are deeply rooted within the  history of race and medicine in the US. Blacks continue to have the  highest burden of coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality among all  ethnic groups in the US, despite an overall decline in CHD-related  mortality among the general population. Black patients also have a  higher prevalence of CVD risk factors (e.g., diabetes, hypertension,  hyperlipidemia, and obesity) than white patients. This persistent  incongruity has compelled investigators to look beyond traditional risk  factors for CVD towards psychosocial risk factors in an effort to better  comprehend and offer solutions to the issue. Individual  psychological stress has emerged as a potential nontraditional CVD risk  factor that has garnered much attention. There is a growing interest  in elucidating how chronic exposure to racial/ethnic discrimination, a  psychosocial stressor, contributes to observed CVD and cardiovascular  care disparities. 

     

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    Race as a Stressor

     Racial and ethnic discrimination has been postulated as a  multidimensional environmental stressor at the societal and individual  levels. That is, there are physiological consequences of chronic  exposure to fluctuating or heightened neural or neuroendocrine response  that results from repeated or chronic stress. Over time, these stressful  life experiences can have detrimental effects on the health of people  in historically marginalized groups. There is now compelling evidence linking the perception of racism to  cardiovascular health. Race-related stress is perceived by many  blacks as an influential factor.

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    Race Influence on Access to Quality Care

    Give customers a reason to do business with you. Race-based discriminatory attitudes and behaviors by health care  professionals may contribute to suboptimal diagnosis and management of  CVD among patients from minority groups, particularly blacks.  Additionally, entrenched institutional racism leads to inequities in  access to and quality of health care.  Studies have demonstrated pervasive disparities between treatment of  blacks and whites in health care delivery in realms such as clinician  adherence to prescribing guidelines, therapy intensification, and use of  invasive cardiac procedures  

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    Hands Only CPR & The Perelman Heart Institute

    Hands Only CPR: Most people who experience cardiac arrest at home, work or in a public location die because they don’t receive immediate CPR from someone on the scene. As a bystander, don’t be afraid. Your actions can only help. When calling 911, you will be asked for your location. Be specific, especially if you’re calling from a mobile phone as that is not associated with a fixed address. Answering the dispatcher’s questions will not delay the arrival of help.

    How to Give Hands-Only CPR- If you see a teen or adult suddenly collapse, call 911 and push hard and fast in the center of the chest to the beat of any tune that is 100 to 120 beats per minute. Immediate CPR can double or even triple a person’s chance of survival.

     

       

    EVERYONE CAN SAVE A LIFE

    It takes less than a minute to learn how to save a life.
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    The Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

     

    The Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill  Cornell Medical Center provides patients with advanced cardiac care —  from new minimally invasive procedures and medications to innovative  specialized approaches —to prevent and treat heart disease in men and  women. With its welcoming, stylish, five-story atrium, the Institute is the  ideal setting for discovery and healing through innovative methods of  diagnoses, treatment, clinical research, and education. It expands upon  the Hospital's existing cardiac care expertise and connects all cardiac  services — plus it adds a layer of public and patient education not  available at other hospitals. The end result — enhanced patient  experience, reduced infections, faster recoveries, disease prevention,  education and, perhaps most important, improved patient outcomes.

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