American Heart Association Virginia
2024 Hampton Roads Heart Ball unites community
The 2024 Hampton Roads Heart Ball brought hearts together to save lives and strive for equitable health for everyone living in Hampton Roads. With more than $355,000 raised overall and almost $125,000 raised in the room, the gala had its “best year ever”.
2024 Hampton Roads Heart Walk Chairperson announced
Julia Jones, Vice President of Quality at Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of HII, will serve as chairperson for the 2024-2025 Hampton Roads Heart Challenge™. Jones will lead a team of 15 Hampton Roads executives to recruit companies and organizations to take part in various Heart Challenge™ initiatives including Heart Walk® and Executives with Heart.
43 hospitals in Virginia Recognized
The American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® initiative promotes up-to-date, research-based guidelines to ensure all patients have access to lifesaving care.
Check it Out: Blood Pressure in Richmond and Petersburg Libraries
Have you heard about the latest addition to the shelves at the library? The American Heart Association is adding blood pressure monitoring stations and loaner devices to libraries across the Greater Richmond and Tri-Cities centered on equity, placing resources in areas with the highest prevalence of hypertension and barriers to care.
Hampton Roads Students Selected Amongst Hundreds to Serve as Youth Heart Ambassadors
Fifteen students from coast to coast are joining the American Heart Association, a global force for healthier lives for all, to champion their peers to live heart healthy. Representing a diversity of backgrounds and experiences, these youth selected as national volunteer Youth Heart Ambassadors for the association’s in-school programs, Kids Heart Challenge™ and American Heart Challenge™ will share how heart disease and stroke have impacted their lives while encouraging others to establish healthy habits to better mental and physical well-being.
Walgreens Supports Heart and Brain Health Through the American Heart Association’s Life Is Why Campaign
This June, over 1000 Walgreens locations across West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Washington, DC and South Carolina will provide shoppers the opportunity to donate in a quick and easy way to support the mission of the American Heart Association. The company is doing so in honor of Brooklyn Graves, the first child of Area Healthcare Manager Area 105 at Walgreens, Kristen Graves. Graves has shared her family’s story to raise awareness of congenital heart defects, the need for continued research funding as well as supportive resources the American Heart Association offers.
2024 Heart of Hampton Roads Co-Chairs Named
As plans are underway for the 2024 Hampton Roads Heart Ball, Cathie Vick, Chief Development & Public Affairs Officer, The Port of Virginia and Ashford Denman, Vice President of Cardiovascular Services, Sentara Health have been named co-chairs of this year’s community-wide campaign. The Heart Ball celebrates progress made through the dedication and passion of all who support the American Heart Association’s Heart of Hampton Roads, a year-round effort aimed at investing in and saving and improving lives in Hampton Roads.
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In Your Community
The American Heart Association is committed to driving equitable health impact in Virginia through five key priority areas: women, COVID-19, 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 Virginia residents while saving and improving countless lives.
Throughout Virginia, we’ve seen our community impact work grow, including efforts around creating avenues for greater access to care, healthy food access and education, sharing Hands-Only CPR kits with clinicians to improve awareness for families, blood pressure screenings and education, and tobacco and e-cigarette education and prevention.
People are counting on us as never before. The American Heart Association, along with our supporters, will drive change, and will be relentless. Thank you for your continued support.
Advocacy has had a mission-critical role in the Association's work for more than 40 years. 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 American Heart Association and American Stroke Association to affect necessary and sustainable policy, system and environmental changes that help Americans build healthier lives free of cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Our efforts in Virginia and its communities are focused on five major policy areas. These are: Tobacco Free, Quality Systems of Care, Healthy Eating, Active Living, and Access to Care.
Chair:
Chandra Hurst
Vice President, Senior Business Consultant
Chase Business Banking
President:
Dr. Chris Snyder
Chief of Pediatric Cardiology
Children's Hospital of Richmond
Leadership Development Chair:
Gary Wallace
Managing Partner
Keiter
Jim Bailey
Partner
Williams Mullen
Sweeny Bansal
Vice President/General Manager
LabCorp
Dr. Amy Cashwell
Superintendent
Henrico County Public Schools
Dr. Phillip Duncan
Cardiologist
VCU Health
Xiomara Encarnacion
Regional Manager, Outreach & Compliance
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Dr. Anika Hines
Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and Policy
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Linda Hines
VA Medicaid Regional President
Humana
Dr. Jennifer Jordan
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering & Pauley Heart Center
VCU Health System
Bryan Lee
President
Bon Secours
Sherri Newman
Associate Vice President of Transplant Services and Mechanical Circulatory Support
VCU Health
Rich Reinecke
Co-Founder
Fahrenheit Advisors
Dr. Emily Robbins
Medical Director
Encompass Health
Dr. Ashish Sethi
Chief Medical Officer, Johnston-Willis Hospital
HCA Virginia
Brooks Smith
Managing Partner, Richmond Office
Troutman Pepper
Zack Smith
Chief Executive Officer
Partner MD
Vivian White
CEO
Encompass Health
Chair:
Dr. Ethlyn McQueen-Gibson
Adjunct Associate Nursing Faculty
Norfolk State University
President:
Dr. Dena Krishnan
Director
Cardiac Rehab and Cardio-Oncology
Bon Secours
Leadership Development Chair:
Nick Thomas
Corporate Vice President Business Operations
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.
Chair-Elect:
Ashford Denman
Vice President of Cardiovascular Services
Sentara Health
Dr. Anca Dobrian
Vice-Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Dr. Kia Dunbar-Harris
Vice President, Clinical Care Services
Sentara Health
Reese Jackson
President
CEO
Chesapeake Regional Healthcare
Frankye Myers, MSN, RN, NE-BC
Senior Vice President
Chief Nursing Officer
Riverside Health System
Circle of Red Member
Dr. Olivia Newby
Owner
Executive Director
The Healthy Living Center
Aaron Thompson
Executive Director
CEO
Olde Towne Medical & Dental Center
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