More than 100,00 people are on the transplant list waiting lifesaving organ transplants.

When I started in health care in 2006 I quickly realized that preventive care was lacking. This was partially because people didn't have access to care, and partially because people didn't know they needed preventive care. Working in a busy emergency room I watched person after person come in with "no medical problems" having a heart attack, stroke, or issues with diabetes they didn't know they had. In 2011, my first year working as a certified Nurse Practitioner I had a youn

American Heart Month The importance of Heart Health and disease prevention