Why Get Involved
With your help, we are providing Canadians with the tools, resources and initiatives to help reduce the controllable risk factors of heart disease and stroke. Since 9 in 10 Canadians have risk factors, your support reaches far and wide.As we work to fulfill our Mission Priorities, your donation will help:
- empower Canadians to make positive changes and prevent disease
- save lives at the moment a health emergency strikes
- promote recovery, where and when it's needed
- By 2020, to significantly improve the health of Canadians by decreasing their risk factors for heart disease and stroke by 10%
- By 2020, to reduce Canadian's rate of death from heart disease and stroke by 25%
Here are a few of the initiatives happening here in New Brunswick:
Restart a Heart - Restart a Life campaign - Across the province, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of New Brunswick, in partnership with NB EMS Public Access Defibrillation Program (PAD), has placed 282 automated external defibrillators (AEDs), through the Restart a Heart - Restart a Life Program. This program was created to increase public access to AEDS, increase community awareness of the role an AED has in saving a life, and improve the understanding of CPR in the public. Along with an AED, approved sites received CPR training and had their sponsored AED connected to the Ambulance NB EMS services, to ensure when 911 was called, the AED location was provided to be accessed.
By giving New Brunswick community facilities the tools to respond to a sudden cardiac arrest, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of New Brunswick is helping to strengthen the "chain of survival".
Tele-Stroke Initiative -Telestroke is an effective way to deliver care to stroke patients anywhere in our province. The ground work that our Foundation has done in 2013 with hosting the Telestroke Summit in collaboration with Horizon Health Network, Vitalité Health Network and the Canadian Stroke Network was a great start. The exciting educational event brought together a leading group of Telestroke experts from across Canada to share their knowledge and experience on the implementation, operation, and evaluation of Telestroke services. It is truly remarkable how this will make a tremendous impact on saving and improving many lives for years to come in this province. We are working very hard to make health last and the implementation of a Telestroke system will be a huge leap forward.
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How individual fundraising efforts can make a big difference:
$40 can teach an entire family how to save a life with CPR.
$100 can teach three classrooms of children the foundation for heart-healthy living with the HeartSmart Kids program.
$500 can help administer an Automated External Defibrillator training course that could save lives.
$1,000 can help equip a lab with a blood pressure monitor to help keep patients healthy.
$2,000 can help researchers hire the summer research assistants that are critical to a research study's success.
$4,000 can place an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) in a community centre or hockey arena, which can increase the chance of surviving a cardiac arrest.
$5,000 can help support e-tool development so people can access health information and customized action plans online.
$6,000 can train a future medical researcher, which is vital to improving heart health and heart medicine.
$10,000 can supports advocacy efforts that lead to legislation on important heart-health issues like smoking, trans fats and AEDs.
$15,000 can fund a scholarship to mentor a student in medical research.
