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Help us ensure that everyone in Washington has the opportunity to live a longer, healthier life.
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24/25 Youth Heart Ambassadors

Youth Heart Ambassadors

Meet the nine Washington youth who are serving as volunteer Youth Heart Ambassadors supporting the Kids Heart Challenge and American Heart Challenge this school year.

Host a Heart Healthy Food Drive

Host a Heart Healthy Food Drive

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, a map of local food access organizations, talking points, materials to promote your food drive and more.

Convening Hypertension Health Care Leaders

Convening Hypertension Health Care Leaders

The American Heart Association hosted a Hypertension Summit, inspiring collaborative care strategies for the 2.7 million Washingtonians with high blood pressure.

Limited Time: 8x Impact for Healthy Hearts

There are still Giving Tuesday matching gift funds available, so every gift TODAY ONLY will be 8X matched to help fund more groundbreaking research, prevention services, CPR training and more. Together, we can help more individuals live healthier, longer lives.

Events in Your Area

National Wear Red Day

Location: Anywhere

Date: Friday, February 7, 2025 - 08:00 AM

Washington Heart at the Capitol Lobby Day

Location: WA State Capitol, Olympia

Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 09:00 AM

Register

Puget Sound Go Red for Women Experience

Location: King Street Ballroom & Perch

Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 04:00 PM

Register

Puget Sound Hard Hats with Heart

Location: The Shop in Georgetown

Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 - 06:00 PM

In Your Community

As a relentless force for longer, healthier lives, the American Heart Association Washington team joins forces with local organizations and clinics to advocate for and increase health equity.

Our collective efforts address pervasive drivers of health disparities, including discrimination and inadequate access to nutrition and quality health care. This work helps equip communities with the systems, resources and health education to achieve optimal heart health.

Throughout Washington State, our efforts to create avenues for greater access to care, increase access to nutritious, culturally relevant foods, develop blood pressure self-measuring programs and tobacco and e-cigarette education and prevention have impacted the lives of millions of Washingtonians. The pursuit of health equity requires listening, collaboration and coordination. We continue to evolve our efforts as we learn from volunteers, supporters and partners to best support our community.

What did donors and volunteers like you help us accomplish during our last fiscal year? Check out our Community Impact Year in Review to see the amazing impact of your donations.

Explore our Community Impact Strategies Overview highlighting our local health priorities, goals and strategies toward our organization-wide 2028 impact goal.

Advocacy has held a mission-critical role in the Association's work for more than 40 years. Our legislative priorities at the local, state and federal levels support the enactment of evidence-based public policies, systems and environmental changes that lead to longer, healthier lives, free of cardiovascular disease. Our efforts in Washington communities are focused on five major policy areas. Our advocacy priorities are: Tobacco Free, Quality Systems of Care, Healthy Eating, Active Living and Access to Care. You can support our efforts by joining our You’re The Cure network of volunteer advocates at yourethecure.org.

Advocacy

Learning your child has a heart defect can be an uncertain and scary time for a family. According to studies in 2010 and 2011, an estimated minimum of 40,000 infants are expected to be affected by congenital cardiovascular defects each year in the United States. Your family is not alone. The American Heart Association is investing in research to further our understanding of CHDs and supporting families like yours who are caring for a young heart patient. Our Heart to Heart: CHD Resources page for WA Families and Caregivers has more information.

Congenital Heart Defects

When someone has a cardiac arrest, immediate CPR is critical and can double or triple a person’s chance of survival. According to American Heart Association research, 68% of Asian American adults surveyed said they would hesitate to perform Hands-Only CPR because they worry they might harm the person suffering cardiac arrest. Read more about American Heart Association Puget Sound, VP Community Impact Al Tsai’s personal experience with cardiac arrest and his message of encouragement for others to learn CPR.

Hands-Only CPR

Board Chair
Bill Robertson
CEO
MultiCare Health System

Board President
Shahriar Heidary, MD

Cardiologist
Sea Mar Community Health Centers

Members

Chad Brown
Founder CEO
CommEx Advisors

Brett Daniel, MD, MHA
Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Optum PNW and West Region

Bob Huskey
Vice President/GMM
Costco Wholesale

Ruchi Kapoor, MD, PhD
Cardiologist
UW

David Lundgren
Executive Division Director,
Center for Neuroscience & Spine
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health

Mjaye Leslie Mazwi, MD, MBChB
Co-Executive Director
Seattle Children's

Carrie Miceli
Commercial Industry Leader
Eagle Hill Consulting

Mark Mitchke
CEO
Delta Dental of Washington

Troy Stedman
President & CEO
Abbott Construction

Nicole Saint Clair, MD, FACOG
Executive Medical Director
Regence BlueShield

David L. Tirschwell, MD, M.Sc
Medical Director of Comprehensive Stroke Care
Harborview Medical Center

Susie Woo, MD
Cardiologist
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health

 


Contact Us

By appointment:

601 Union St., Suite 2420
Seattle, WA, 98101

Phone: (206) 336-7200

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Heart and Stroke News

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