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ABOUT THE WOMEN'S HEART FOUNDATION

Mission

The Women's Heart Foundation, the only Non-Governmental Organization that designs and implements demonstration projects for the prevention of heart disease, is a 501(c)3 charitable organization dedicated to improving the survival and quality of life for women with heart disease through the promotion of health literacy in gender care.

Goals

  1. to provide for the education of women as consumers concerning heart disease as it affects them economically, culturally, physiologically, psychologically and spiritually;

  2. to provide for the education of health professionals concerning the unique needs of women with heart disease;

  3. to advocate for research into the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and outcome of heart disease as it affects women, particularly minority women;

  4. to support women as caregivers.

Outreach

The Women's Heart Foundation specializes in the design and implementation of highly effective wellness, prevention and early intervention programs and has received both national and international acclaim for its ability to reach out to thousands of women with direct and indirect service. As the front runner for women's cardiovascular disease issues, WHF is proud that the movement that it started in 1986 is now a global one with mobilization of world health organizations, government, academic and science communities to bring about social change.

Click here to download your copy of WHF's Annual Report
Annual Report 2007
Annual Report 2006
Annual Report 2005
Annual Report 2004

Click here to view a copy of WHF's Nonprofit IRS Form 990
Fiscal Year 2007
Fiscal Year 2006
Fiscal Year 2005
Fiscal Year 2004

501c3 Document


Programs

  • Teen Esteem Health and Fitness (launched Sept 2004)

  • Gender Care Initiative (launched Feb 2004) with medical conferences and curriculum development to promote health literacy in gender care and medicine

  • Women's Heart Week February 1-7 (launched February 1994)

  • Healthy Heart Guides (since 1991)

Initiatives

  • Take New Jersey Women to Heart (Nov 2003 to Jun 2005)

  • Medication Safety Campaign (since 1999)

  • Purple Ribbon Campaign (since 1999)

  • Cards for Life personal health file (since 1999)

  • Women's Heart & Wellness curriculum - powerpoints that were designed by a WHF multi-disciplinary team of health professionals. The curriculum is being made available to health partners who wish to join WHF in establishing Women's Heart and Wellness CentersTM.

Capacity-building with expansion depends chiefly upon collaboration and partnerships. Through its strong relationship with Trenton area leaders, WHF is looking to open the first Women's Heart and Wellness Center. This will take place in a multi-use space that will offer highly affordable fitness, hands-on nutrition, wellness and risk factor management, all under one roof.

The organization's board of trustees is supported by medical, legal and financial advisors and five standing committees: Education, Outreach Communications, Fund Development and Nominations.

Trustees

Walt Arkus
William R. Healey
Robin Heston
Barbara Roberts
Jonathan Pearson
Pamela Boyce Simms
Maureen Roddy

Chief Financial Officer: Girard Pisauro III, CPA
Chief Counsel: Andora and Romano
Copyrights & Trademarks: Mathews, Shepherd, McKay and Bruneau
Executive Director: Bonnie Hartman Arkus


Medical Director
Barbara Roberts, MD, FACC, USA
see biography

Past Medical Director (1997-2004)
Steven Samuel, MD, FACC, USA
Trenton Cardiology Associates, NJ

Past Medical Director (1992-1997)
James D. Sink, MD, FACC, USA
Chief of Cardiovascular Sugery
Philadelphia Heart Institute

Science Advisor/Gender Medicine
Marianne J. Legato, MD, USA
see biography

Advisory Board

Dolores Daly

Darlene J. Goldstein, MD

Lyman Hunter, Pharm D

Cheryl Lunnen, RN

Luis A. Mispireta, MD, FACC, FSTS, FICPS

Dula F. Pacquiao, EdD, RN CTN

Joanne R. Samuel, MSN, RN, CS, CCRN

Maully Shah, MD

Jan R. Weber, MD, FACC

Kathleen B. Williamson, MS, RNC, FAACVPR



Colophon - As the only Non Governmental Organization that designs and implements heart wellness and prevention programs for women, WHF takes pride in its accomplishments, and recognizes that this intensive level of outreach and programming is made possible only through collaboration with dedicated health partners. All of the materials presented herein are the result of relationship-building with clinicians located at various health centers of the country. We are indebted to these medical professionals who have generously contributed to the content of this website and to the development of a new level of care to women called "wellness".

What we share is a vision for change, a purpose to define a gender-specific evidence-based medicine founded in science and outcome-based best practice, and a time when all women will come to know that heart disease is their number one killer. It is a profoundly different disease in women with different symptoms, different risks, etiology and course of treatment. We're working hard to reverse the disturbingly high and unacceptable death rate in women and pray that one day soon, heart disease will no longer be the number one killer of our mothers and daughters, sisters and wives. Spread the word about gender-specific healthcare and medicine and the urgent need for wellness programs for women. Join with the Women's Heart Foundation and help us save more women's lives.



Bonnie Arkus
Executive Director and Founder 		   

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