American Heart Association South Dakota
South Dakota Mission: Lifeline Stroke
South Dakota Mission: Lifeline Stroke’s innovative regional collaboration is working to ensure compatibility, consistent training and uniform protocols for both transporting and treating stroke patients across the state.
Help Your Students Become Heart Heroes
Two 9-year-old students are heroes after learning the lifesaving skill of CPR through Kids Heart Challenge. Watch Logan and Magnolia's stories, and help your students become heart heroes. Register your school today!
CPR & First Aid Training
Emergencies leave us feeling helpless, but they don’t have to. Take two minutes to learn Hands-Only CPR™ now. 70 percent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen in homes. When a person has a cardiac arrest, immediate CPR can double or triple their chance of survival. Prepare to save a life, find a CPR course near you today.
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Whip up this super smoothie for breakfast or after a workout. This four-fruit blended drink tastes like a creamy milkshake and provides your body with protein, calcium, and vitamins for a healthy start to your day or a pick-me-up snack in the afternoon.
Join the Nation of Lifesavers
We’re working in states and communities across the state to improve the chain of survival from cardiac arrest: CPR training as high school graduation requirement so that more people are ready to take action when cardiac arrests occur; requiring schools and athletic facilities and events have a Cardiac Emergency Response Plan, and ensuring the person who answers the 911 call can identify a cardiac emergency and coach the caller through CPR.
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The American Heart Association is committed to driving health impact in South Dakota through five key priority areas: women, readiness, tobacco and vaping, patients and healthy living.
Through our focus on these key impact areas, and with collaboration among local organizations, sponsors, businesses, and others that serve the community, we are working to improve the health and well-being of South Dakota citizens while saving and improving countless lives.
Throughout the state of South Dakota, we’ve seen our community impact work grow, including efforts around creating avenues for greater access to care, expanding healthy food access and education, building a network of first responders through CPR kits in schools, supporting blood pressure screenings and education, and educating on the dangers of tobacco and vaping.
People are counting on us as never before. We at the American Heart Association, along with our supporters, will drive change, and we will be relentless. Thank you for your continued support.
For more than 40 years, Advocacy has had a mission-critical role in the American Heart Association's work. Our legislative and regulatory priorities help to mitigate risk factors and protect survivors in communities across the country. We support the enactment of evidence-based public policies that lead to longer, healthier lives.
Public policy advocacy is an essential strategy used by the Association to affect necessary and sustainable policy, system and environmental changes that help South Dakota citizens build healthier lives free of cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Our efforts in South Dakota and it’s communities are focused on the following policy areas: Cardiac Emergency Response Plans, Tobacco and Vaping, Access to Care, Heart and Stroke Systems and Healthy Nutrition.
President
Mary Boylan, MD
President
Retired: St. Luke's Regional Heart & Vascular Center
Kim Bors
Business Owner/Leader
Dover Corporation
Members
Heather Baker, EdD
Director of Teaching and Learning
Rockton School District #140
Tasha Blackmon
President & CEO
Cherry Health
Mercedes Carnethon, PhD, FAHA
Chair and Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Marc Gerdish, MD
Professor of Clinical Surgery, School of Medicine
Indiana University
Joseph Haas
Immediate Past Chair
SVP of Private Wealth
Associated Bank
Kelly Hancock, DNP, RN, NE-BC, FAAN
EVP, Chief Caregiver Officer & Chief Administrative Officer
Cleveland Clinic
Karen Harbin
President & CEO
Commonwealth Credit Union
Delores Hargrove-Young
Vice Chairwoman
d.e. Foxx & Associates, Inc.
William (B.J.) Hicks II, MD
Ex Officio
Vice President, Neuroscience Service Line, OhioHealth
Vascular Neurologist
OhioHealth Neurological Physicians
Linda Imonti
Director, Strategic Advisor and Retired Managing
KMPG LLP
Joshua J. Joseph, MD
President Elect
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Devray Kirkland
Vice President
Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer
Cardinal Health
Brett Kissela, MD, MS
Executive Vice-Dean
Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Chief of Research Services
UC Health
Sharon Langshur
Research Project Coordinator
Northwestern Medicine
Chief Medical Officer,
ACCESS Community Health Network
Keith Miller, MD, PhD, FACC
Cardiologist
Bryan Health
John Mongelluzzo, J.D.
Managing Partner
Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP
Howard O’Brien
Associate
Howard & O’Brien Executive Search
Karen Rieck
Vice President, Human Resources
Farm Bureau Financial Services
Lee Shapiro, JD
Ex Officio
Managing Partner
7wire Ventures
John Walsh, DSc, MBA, FACHE
Louisville, Kentucky
Heath Wilt, D.O., FACC
Cardiologist
North Kansas City Health
Contact Us
PO Box 90545
Sioux Falls, SD 57109
For CPR-related inquiries, please call 1-877-242-4277
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