Knowledge is Prevention: Learn How to Protect Your Heart at The Mount Sinai Hospital's Community Heart Health Fair
Mount Sinai Heart celebrates February’s American Heart Month and the 10th Anniversary of National Go Red Day on Friday, February 7.
Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the United States and it affects one in three women. February 7 marks the 10th anniversary of the American Heart Association's National Go Red Day. Mount Sinai Heart at The Mount Sinai Hospital will host its annual Community Heart Health Fair on Friday, February 7 at 1468 Madison Avenue at East 100th Street from10:30am to 2:00pm.
The free Community Heart Health Fair at Mount Sinai, one of the largest Go Red events for the last eleven years in New York City, will offer free heart health screenings for blood pressure, total cholesterol including good and bad cholesterol level, triglyceride level, glucose level and body mass index. Also, education and demonstrations on nutrition and diet, diabetes, stress management, smoking cessation, yoga and other relaxation techniques will be offered. In addition, free heart healthy food tastings will be prepared by Mount Sinai Hospital chefs, and guests will receive free giveaways, a goodie-bag, and raffle entry upon completion of their heart health screenings.
"Knowledge is prevention," says Beth Oliver, DNP, RN, Vice President of Clinical Operations for Mount Sinai Heart. "Every woman needs to know her heart health numbers especially blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose level, and BMI."
"Attending a free heart health screening in your community can help arm yourself with the important information you need to prevent heart disease or even assist you in reducing your current level of the disease," says Mary Ann McLaughlin, MD, Medical Director of the Cardiac Health Program at Mount Sinai Heart.
"It is vital to get the word out to women and men in the community about how to prevent and care for heart disease," says Linda Hackett, MPA, Senior Program Director of Community and Government Affairs at Mount Sinai. "Mount Sinai's daily mission is to take every opportunity to help educate our neighbors about their overall health and disease prevention."
Who: General Public
What: Free Community Heart Health Fair at The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Free heart health screenings
- Free educational materials and demonstrations
- Free heart healthy food tastings
When: Friday, February 7 at 10:30am-2:00pm
Where:
The Mount Sinai Hospital
1468 Madison Avenue at East 100th Street
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, over 400 outpatient practices, nearly 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.
Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties.
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