February is Heart Month

Each February during American Heart Month, the WakeMed Heart Center takes the opportunity to step out and share the importance of taking care of your heart.  Whether it's undergoing a procedure, learning about risk factors for heart disease, considering healthier eating options or putting your best foot forward on the treadmill, your health is close to our hearts.  We are offering free seminars, screenings and events to put heart health top of mind for you and your loved ones.  So please join us - your heart will thank you! 

For more information or to register for any event or seminar,
please call 350-7827.  For directions to our facilities, click here.

YMCA Heart Health Days
7:30 to 11 am
Join us at a YMCA facility near you.  Featuring free cholesterol screenings (while supplies last), blood pressure checks, heart health education and more.  YMCA membership is not required, but pre-registration for cholesterol screenings is required.  Call 350-7132 to register.

Dance for Your Heart
Dance your way to a heart healthy lifestyle!  WakeMed Health Specialist Laura Aiken will share exercises aimed at improving balance, agility and flexibility.  Dancers from the Sassy Classics Senior Rockettes group will give a special performance, complete with tips form their workout routine.

American Iron Chef Dishes Out a Heart Healthy Meal
Tuesday, March 20
2:30 to 3:30 pm
Heart Center Conference Center, WakeMed Raleigh Campus
Chef Walter Royal, a recent American Iron Chef winner from Raleigh's own Angus Barn, along with WakeMed dietitian Kiana Koenning, will demonstrate  how to prepare a heart healthy meal.  It's sure to be a winner.  Pre-registration is required for this popular program.  Call 919-350-7827 to register.

WakeMed Healthworks Celebrates 20 Years with Our Cardiac "Thrivers"
Saturday, March 3
10 am to 1 pm
WakeMed Health Park, 3000 New Bern Avenue, Raleigh
To celebrate this milestone, Healthworks is inviting our current and former Cardiac Rehabilitation and Safeway to Fitness participants, as well as those who want to learn more about these programs, for an Open House and Luncheon.  Meet the staff, tour the facilities, visit our educational booths and earn prizes for taking part, as well as enjoy a heart healthy luncheon.  Pre-registration is required.  Call 350-7827. 

Mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts and grandmothers - they're all at risk for heart disease, the leading killer of women in the United States.  That's why the WakeMed Heart Center has developed the Change of Heart initiative: to educate women about their risks and changes that can be made to take better care of their hearts.  For more information, click here.

February is more than a month filled with hearts and kisses.  For WakeMed's Heart Center, it's the perfect time to celebrate American Heart Month with free educational seminars about heart-healthy living.  Click here for details...