Source: amsterdamnews.com
Last Thursday BMS Family Health and Wellness Centers held a blood pressure screening and social media event to raise awareness during American Heart Month.
Assembly Member Latrice Walker, BMS Chief Executive Officer Harvey Lawrence and BMS medical staff took their blood pressure at the BMS Main health center––along with 100 patients.
Selfies and Facebook livestreaming of the activity were posted on different social media networks, using the hashtag, #HeartHealthyNYC. This hashtag was developed by the NYC Health Department and members of the Take the Pressure Off, NYC! Coalition (TPO).
The coalition of more than 100 organizations, including BMS, is committed to an objective of reducing the number of New Yorkers with raised blood pressure by 150,000 by 2022. In 2016, more than one in four adult New Yorkers reported having high blood pressure. Black adults have more than three times the premature death rate due to stroke than whites