American Heart Association Ohio
Cleveland Barbershops Turned Health Hubs
In a groundbreaking initiative, ten Cleveland barbershops have become community health hubs, featuring self-service blood pressure monitors. Supported by the American Heart Association, this program brings essential health services directly to the community, promoting proactive cardiovascular health.
American Heart Month Challenge
American Heart Month calls attention to how cardiovascular disease remains the No. 1 cause of death in Americans. The good news is, all Americans can improve their odds of preventing and beating these diseases by taking simple, healthy steps like those found in our 28 day challenge.
Mobile Hands-Only CPR Training Kiosk will Train Thousands
A new Mobile Hands-Only CPR Kiosk was launched in Dayton, Ohio, and was sponsored by Dayton Freight Lines Inc. This Mobile Hands-Only CPR Kiosk will train thousands of Dayton Fright employees throughout the Midwest.
Hudson Stroke Survivor Named 2025 Go Red for Women National Ambassador
At 51 years old, Rajini Poth, Ph.D. was experiencing a lot of headaches. She delayed making a doctor's appointment because she was busy juggling her career and family. Then one day while driving, she suddenly couldn’t move part of her body. Rajini ended up sitting alone in her car for hours—paralyzed—with no idea she was having a stroke. Now, as a part of the American Heart Association's 2025 Go Red for Women Class of Survivors, Rajini is sharing her story to empower other women.
The Healthcare Connection Organization improves patient hypertension rates with the American Heart Association
The Healthcare Connection has transformed hypertension rates in their community. Over the course of the last two years, patients achieved a blood pressure goal of <140/90. Together, with the American Heart Association, a global force for healthier lives for all, blood pressure control rates have continually been improved.
In 2021, through the National Hypertension Control Initiative and the American Heart Association, The Healthcare Connection received support to improve blood pressure control rates among their patients by creating a self-measured blood pressure program. The program has established a process with resources about blood pressure control, self-measured blood pressure education for patients and health care professionals, access to new, automated blood pressure equipment, It also has steps for health care professionals to take to help track, manage and improve patients’ blood pressure over time.
Chicken Zucchini Enchiladas
Try hollowed-out zucchini instead of a tortilla for the base of this delicious enchilada to get in some extra vegetables for dinner tonight. A thick, creamy, and spicy sauce bathes a garlicky, cheesy chicken mixture.
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Events in Your Area
Greater Akron Heart Walk
Location: RubberDucks Stadium/Canal Park
Date: Saturday, May 31, 2025 - 08:30 AM
RegisterNortheast Ohio Golf Classic
Location: Youngstown Country Club
Date: Monday, June 2, 2025 - 12:30 PM
RegisterHeart of Cleveland Heart & Stroke Ball
Location: Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Tower
Date: Friday, June 13, 2025 - 06:00 PM
RegisterBill Phillips Legacy Foundation Classic
Location: The Quarry Golf Club
Date: Monday, August 11, 2025 - 07:30 AM
RegisterWayne County Heart Walk
Location: Kinney Trail & Kean Elementary
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 05:00 PM
RegisterIn Your Community
The American Heart Association is committed to driving equitable health impact in Ohio through five key priority areas: women, readiness, tobacco and vaping, patients, and healthy living. Equity is always 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 Ohio citizens while saving and improving countless lives.
Throughout the state of Ohio, 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 Ohio citizens build healthier lives free of cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Our efforts in Ohio and its communities are focused on the following policy areas: Tobacco and Vaping, Access to Care, Medicaid Expansion, and Hypertension Prevention and Control.
Board Chair
Mark Carter
Cintas
Board President
Deborah Hayes
The Christ Hospital Health Network
Leadership Development Chair
Tim Steigerwald
Messer Construction
Past Board Chair
Kevin Jones
Community Volunteer
Past Board President
Evie Alessandrini, MD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Members
Steve Berke
Community Volunteer
Jennifer Cloyd Caldwell
AtriCure
Mark Carter
Cintas Corporation
Kristin Coppage, M.D.
TriHealth
Stacie Demel. D.O.
UC | UC Health
Sue Erhart
Great American Insurance Group
Terri Hanlon-Bremer
TriHealth
Beverly A Grant
Community Volunteer
Deborah Hayes
The Christ Hospital Health Network
Michelle Hudgens
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Ken James
Mercy Health
Nadine Kasparian, PhD
Cincinnati Childrens Hospital medical Center
Colleen Lindholz
Kroger Health
JoAnne Noyes
Noyes Knee Institute
Kelly Soller
5/3 Bank
Winton Stellner
UC Health
Creighton Wright, MD
Community Volunteer
Mike Uhl
Deloitte
Midwest Board Members
Delores Hargrove-Young
d.e. Foxx & Associates
John Mongelluzzo
Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP
Board Chair
Rob Durham
HKM Direct Marketing Communications
Board President
Janine Arruda, MD, FAAP, FACC
University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
Board President Elect
Leadership Development Co-Chair
Giving Societies Ambassador
Thomas Hablitzel
The Sherwin-Williams Company
Board President Elect
Meera Kondapaneni, MD, FACC, FSCAI
The MetroHealth System
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Ohio Advocacy Coordinating Committee
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Fred DeGrandis, JD
NorthCoast Healthcare LLC
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Lee Ann Howard
Howard & O'Brien Associates
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Matt Scovell
Parker Hannifin
Parker Aerospace Braking Systems Division
Midwest Region Board Liaison
Bradley Marino, MD, MPP, MSCE, MBA
Cleveland Clinic Children's
Anti-Tobacco Physician Champion
Health Equity Subcommittee Chair
Charles Modlin, MD, MBA
The MetroHealth System
National Marketing Communications Committee
Sam Prewitt
Radio One
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Cleveland Clinic
Lorraine Dodero
The Sam J. Frankino Foundation &
The Corinne L. Dodero Foundation for Arts & Sciences
Lindsay Domingo
Swagelok
Jim Farley
The J.P. Farley Corporation
Thomas Ferkovic, RPM, MS
Medic Management Group
Jeremy Halford
GrafTech International
Domonic Hopson, MPH, FACHE
Neighborhood Family Practice
Alberta Lee, SPHR
Cleveland Cavaliers &
Rock Entertainment Group
Frances Mills, ABD, MA
Cleveland Department of Public Health
WiIliam M. Peacock III
Cleveland Clinic
Boyd Pethel
First National Bank
Dawn Phillipson
Arhaus
Theresa Polachek, APR
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Monique Robinson, MD, PHD, FACC, FHFSA
University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute
Mouris Saghir, PhD
Quest Diagnostics
Beth Sak
The Sherwin-Williams Company
Niki Schaefer
ReliabilityFirst
Rob Schimmelpfennig
HAVE, Inc.
Patrick Scott
Parker Hannifin Corporation
Mehdi Shishehbor, DO, MPH, PhD
University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute
Anthony Siracusa
STERIS
George Sullivan
Equity Trust Company
Greg Teed
Vitamix
Sally Turner
Sotera Health
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Bradley Marino, MD, MPP, MSCE, MBA
Cleveland Clinic Children's
National Investment Committee
Cathy O’Malley Kearney, JD
KeyBank
Board Chair
Devray Kirkland
Cardinal Health
Board President
Laura Gravelin, MD, FHRS
Mount Carmel Heart & Vascular Specialists
President-Elect
Joshua J. Joseph, MD, MPH, FAHA, ASCI
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Leadership Development Chair
Angelo Mazzocco
Avaap
Members
Jenny Barnes
Quantum Health
Donald Beckman
Fifth Third Commercial Bank
Chris Boynton
Battelle
Rob Cercek
OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital
Lamont Clay, MD
OhioHealth Pickerington Methodist Hospital
Mark Conselyea
The Ohio State University
Ursula Cottone
Huntington Bank
Vidu Garg, MD
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Peter George, MD, MBA
OhioHealth
Catherine Krawczeski, MD
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Linda Lynch
Greif Inc.
Joe Mazzola
Franklin County Public Health
Nahush Mokadam, MD
The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
Michael J Moran
Mount Carmel Health System
Tim Schiffer
Grange Insurance
Frank Willson
AEP
Midwest Board President
William (B.J.) Hicks II, MD
OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital
Board Chair
Matthew Wendel
Shook Construction
Board President
Derek Mayberry
Premier Health
Members
Carrie Baker
DO LLC
Kim Freeman, MPH, MCHES
Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County
Bryan Greene
Champlin Architecture
Maleka James
Dayton Children's Hospital
Katy Jacomet
USI
Jessica Jones
Universal One Credit Union
Alina Joseph
Kettering Health
Capt. Sarah Marshall
City of Dayton Fire Department
Kimberly Rex, MHA
Wright State Physicians
John Theobald
Day-Air Credit Union
Trustees
Dr. Harvey Hahn
Kettering Health
Michelle Lovely
The Dayton Foundation
Lawrence Prochaska, PhD
Wright State University (retired)
Dr. Vijai Tivakaran
Kettering Health
Board Chair
Jim LaRocca
Westfield Bank
Board President
Brian Adams
UH Portage Medical Center
Chair-Elect
Zach Goodson
Dominion Energy
President-Elect
Grace Ayafor, MD
Summa Health
Members
Dr. Christina Dacsenzo, PharmD, RPh
Family Drug & Village Pharmacies
Michael Davidson
Buehler’s Fresh Foods
Gregory Ensley
Farmers Bank
Jim Hewitt
GPD Group
Jolene Lane, Ed.D.
Equity Lane, LLC, DEI Strategy
Maria D. Kowal, MD, MBA
ONE Health Ohio
Jennifer Oberg-Dostal
Huntington National Bank
Cyril Ofori, MD
Wooster Community Hospital
Mihail T. Paxos, MD
Aultman Hospital
Jessica Roberts MSN, APRN-CNP
Summa Health
Lorrie Shaffer
Huntington Bank
Emeritus Members
Cynthia Annen
Aultman
Rachel Barber
VEC
David Blasko
HBK
Dr. Justin Dunn
Summa Health
Barb Frustaci
Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital
Amador Gonzalez
Hasenstab Architects
Dr. Jeff Hallam
Kent State University
Dr. Nancy Landgraff
Youngstown State University
Buffy Phillips
Community Volunteer
Dr. Nicolette Powe
Youngstown State University
Carol Risaliti
Beacon Pharmacy
Joseph Salman
First National Bank
Jody Wolf
Community Volunteer
Board Chair
Emma Helvey
Mosser Group
Board President
Shawnterra Glasgow, DHSc, MPH, M. Ed.
Family House
Past Board Chair
Vincent DiPofi
SSOE Group
Members
Gregory Braylock
ProMedica
Stu Goldberg
Eastman & Smith
Emma Helvey
Mosser Construction
Dr. Elysia James
The University of Toledo
Shannon Jones
Lucas County Health Dept
Peggy Lucio
Encompass Health
Nick Malone
Owens Corning
David Manley
Toledo Public Schools
Dr. Mohamed Osman MD,MBA,DABS,RPVI,FACS,FSVS
ProMedica Vascular Institute
Juli Seiwert
William Vaughan Company
Jennifer Weddington
Sigma Technologies
Rhonda Young
First Solar
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