RESOURCE LIST FOR HEART/STROKE
The following organizations may be helpful in helping you care for some with heart or stroke-related conditions:
American Heart Association
National Center
7272 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX 75231
Phone: 1-800-AHA-USA-1 (242-8721)
About Us: The AHA is "a national voluntary health agency whose mission is: 'Building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke.'"
American Stroke Association
National Center
7272 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX 75231
Phone: 1-888-4-STROKE (478-7653)
About Us: The American Stroke Association is "a division of the American Heart Association that focuses on reducing risk, disability and death from stroke through research, education, fund raising and advocacy."
American Society of Hypertension
148 Madison Avenue, Fifth Floor
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 1-212-696-9099
Fax: 1-212-696-0711
Email: ash@aah-us.org
About Us: ASH's mission is "to translate and promote current research in hypertension and vascular disease into effective treatment strategies for patients with hypertension and associated disorders."
American Stroke Foundation
5960 Dearborn
Mission, KS 66202
Phone: 1-913-649-1776
Toll Free: 1-866-549-1776
Fax: 1-913-649-6661
About Us: The foundation looks to "empower stroke survivors and their families to overcome ongoing challenges of life after stroke and rejuvenate their lives."
Cardiac Arrhythmias Research and Education (C.A.R.E.) Foundation, Inc.
427 Fulton Street
PO Box 69
Seymour, WI 54165
Phone: 1-800-404-9500
1-425-785-5836
Fax: 1-920-883-7005
Email: care@CAREforhearts.org
About Us: The C.A.R.E. mission is "to formulate, promote and lead initiatives to prevent sudden cardiac death due to acquired and heritable heart rhythm disorders."
Easter Seals
233 South Wacker Drive
Suite 2400
Chicago, IL 60606
Phone: 1-312-726-6200
Toll Free: 1-800-221-6827
TTY: 1-312-726-4258
Fax: 312-726-1494
info@easterseals.com
About Us: "Easter Seals has been helping individuals with disabilities and special needs, and their families, live better lives for nearly 90 years."
Heart Support of America
6101 Stephens Hill Way
Corryton, TN 37721
Phone: 1-865-687-5838
Email: info@heartsupportofamerica.org
About Us: The mission of HSA is "To promote and provide education, financial assistance, aid and support to heart patients with limited or depleted financial resources.
The Hope Heart Institute
1380 112th Ave NE, Suite 200
Bellevue, WA 98004
Phone: 425-456-8700
Fax: 425-456-8701
E-mail: info@hopeheart.org
About Us: The Hope Heart Institute is "dedicated to preventing and treating heart and blood vessel disease, and to improving the physical, emotional and spiritual quality of life for all at risk of - or affected by - cardiovascular disease."
Hypertension Education Foundation, Inc.
Box 651
Scarsdale, NY 10583
www.hypertensionfoundation.org
About Us: The purpose of H.E.F. is to increase "both physician and the general public's awareness of the problems involved in the treatment of high blood pressure and promoting research and teaching efforts in the field of hypertension."
InterAmerican Heart Foundation (IHF)
7272 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75231-4596
Phone: 1-214-706-1301
Email: iahf@interamericanheart.org
About Us: The IHF is "dedicated to reducing disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke in the Americas."
International Society on Hypertension in Blacks (ISHIB)
157 Summit View Drive
McDonough, GA 30253
Phone: 1-404-880-0343
FAX: 1-404-880-0347
E-mail: inforequest@ishib.org
About Us: ISHIB mission is "is to improve the health and life expectancy of ethnic minorities and eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities in cardiovascular disease through professional and public education, targeted clinical research, and facilitation of the delivery of higher quality cardiovascular health care."
The Larry King Cardiac Foundation
15720 Crabbs Branch Way
Suite D
Rockville MD 20855
Phone: 1-866-302-LKCF (5523)
About Us: The mission of this foundation is „to provide funding for life saving cardiac procedures for individuals who, due to limited means and no insurance, would be otherwise unable to receive life saving treatment."
National Aphasia Association
350 Seventh Avenue, Suite 902
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 1-800-922-4622
Email: naa@aphasia.org
About Us: The NAA" makes people with aphasia, their families, support systems, and health care professionals aware of resources to recover lost skills to the extent possible, to compensate for skills that will not be recovered and to minimize the psychosocial impact of the language impairment."
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Health Inforamtion Center
P.O. Box 30105
Bethesda, MD 20824-0105
Phone: 1-301-592-8573
Fax: 1-240-629-3246
TTY: 1-240-629-3255
Email: info@nhlbi.nih.gov
About Us: The NHLBI "provides leadership for a national program in diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lung, and blood; blood resources; and sleep disorders."
National Emergency Medicine Association
National Heart Council
National Stroke Council
306 W. Joppa Road
Baltimore, Maryland 21204-4048
Phone: 1-410-494-0300
Fax: 1-410-494-0725
Email: info@nemahealth.org
www.nemahealth.org/programs/nhc/index.htm
About Us: Trough NEMA, the National Heart Council supports "emergency training programs, provided lifesaving equipment, and helped to fund educational and direct service programs aimed at combating heart attack and heart disease." The National Stroke Council is "devoted to research and education on the causes and effects of brain attack .
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institutes of Health
P.O. Box 5801
Bethesda, MD 20824
Phone: 1-301-496-5751
1-800-352-9424
TTY: 1-301468-5981
“Know Stroke" website: www.stroke.nih.gov
About Us: The mission of NINDS "is to reduce the burden of neurological disease - a burden borne by every age group, by every segment of society, by people all over the world."
National Stroke Association
9707 E Easter Lane Building B
Centennial, CO 80112
Phone: 1-800-STROKES (787-6537)
Fax: 1-303-649-1328
Email: info@stroke.org
About Us: The National Stroke Association "achieves its mission to lower the incidence and impact of stroke by developing compelling community outreach programs, calling for continued improvement in the quality of stroke patient care, and educating both healthcare professionals and the general public about stroke."