Missouri
Cardiovascular Emergency Response Plans
The St. Louis Community Impact Team has been busy engaging local churches with resources to build Cardiovascular Emergency Response Plans (CERP). A CERP is a written plan outlining the specific steps to take in the event of a cardiac emergency. It ensures your staff and congregation are prepared to react swiftly and effectively, potentially saving a life.
HeartCorps program to improve rural health in Missouri
Our HeartCorps Member in Marshfield, MO is helping lead work creating access to community blood pressure monitoring and improving cardiac readiness. Similar work is happening across rural Missouri, especially in conjunction with libraries. An independent medical clinic in Audrain County is working to improve their management of high blood pressure for their patients.
Kansas City Libraries with Heart
The American Heart Association, along with HCA Midwest Health and the Kansas City Public Library, has made blood pressure kiosks and checkout blood pressure kits available to all Kansas City Public Library branches.
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Stocking Healthy Pantries: Heart Healthy Food Drive Toolkit
Eating healthy meals is easier when families have nutritious foods to prepare. The American Heart Association encourages companies to host heart-healthy food drives. Our comprehensive toolkit includes guidance for providing culturally relevant foods, talking points, materials to promote your food drive and more. This is initiative is sponsored locally by Ameren Missouri.
Let us share your story
Are you a survivor? Help us raise awareness for cardiovascular disease and stroke through your story.
For 11-year-old hockey player, breathlessness signaled a struggling heart
While running laps during physical education class at his school in St. Joseph, Missouri, Jake Burnam passed out. After several tests and an abnormal electrocardiogram, it was discovered the then-11-year-old son had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), an inherited condition in which his heart muscle became abnormally thick, making it harder to efficiently pump blood.
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The American Heart Association is committed to driving equitable health impact in Missouri through key priority areas: CPR, hypertension control, rural health and food insecurity. Equity is at the center of our work and it will continue to guide all that we do.
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 all Missourians while saving and improving lives.
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 Missourians build healthier lives free of cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Our efforts in Missouri communities are focused on ensuring quality-systems of care, increasing nutrition access, promoting health equity and furthering early care and education.
President
Georges Chahoud
St. Louis Cardiology Consultant, LLC
Chair
Heather Raines
Mercy Hospital St. Louis
Dr. Richard Bach
Professor of Medicine
Dr. Gmerice Hammond
Washington University in St. Louis
Dr. Ravi Johar
United Healthcare
Joel Perkins
KPMG
Brian Eaton
Aetna
Sonia Deal
Affinia Healthcare
Stephanie Koch
RGA
Dr. David Carpenter
Washington University School of Medicine
Melissa Henriques
Enterprise Fleet Management
Patti Crimmins-Reda, MSN, RN
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
Board President
Dr. Heath Wilt
AdventHealth
Board Chair
Tom O'Grady
HNTB
Board Members
Dr. Dipika Aggarwal
University of Kansas Medical Center
Dave Barber
JE Dunn Construction
Mindy Brissey
MRB Strategies, LLC
Tim Castaneda
Amazon Web Services
Carla Duryee
C. Duryee Consulting
Scott Hall
Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Steven Kaster
Chen Med
Keri Mathew
Central Bank of the Midwest
Dr. Rhea Pimentel
The University of Kansas Health System
Matt Sogard
HCA Midwest Health, Overland Park Regional Medical Center
Marvin Szneler
Community Leader
Dr. Anezi Uzendu
Saint Luke’s Health System, Mid America Heart Institute
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Phone: (314) 692-5600
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