2018ANNUAL REPORT

INSPIRING ACTIONTO HELP IMPROVE HEART HEALTH IN

COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE U.S.

Established in 1993, the AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation is a Delaware not-for-profit corporation and a 501(c)(3) entity organized for charitable purposes, including to promote public awareness and education of healthcare and to support nonprofit organizations consistent with its charitable purpose.

MISSION AND PROGRAMS

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Connections for Cardiovascular HealthSM

In 2009, the AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation launched the Connections for Cardiovascular HealthSM (CCH) program. The program was launched thanks to a charitable contribution from AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, whose support for the program to date totals $33 million. The program awards grants to nonprofit organizations working in innovative ways to improve cardiovascular health at the community level.

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM) Legacy Program

Now a legacy program, the Foundation collaborated with a group of national public service organizations, professional medical associations, and government agencies to improve breast cancer awareness, share disease information and provide greater access to services.

AstraZeneca Employee Disaster Relief Fund

The Foundation provides support for AstraZeneca employees affected by federally declared disasters in the United States.

For more information on the Foundation’s programs, visit http://www.astrazeneca-us.com/foundation.

The Center for Social and Economic Policy Research at West Chester University

The Foundation’s university evaluation partner, the Center for Social and Economic Policy Research at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, provides evaluation support of CCH-funded programs, identifies key learnings based on Foundation practices, assists in sharing lessons learned and provides representation on the Foundation’s grant review committees.

Across the country, cardiovascular disease affects over 121 million people and remains a leading cause of death.1 Since its inception, the AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation’s Connections for Cardiovascular HealthSM (CCH) program has sought to address this devastating health problem.

One way we do this is by providing funding to nonprofit organizations in the United States with innovative, community-based heart health programs. Through these programs, participants may receive access to care, health screenings, education, disease management and health coaching. As a result, they often make small lifestyle changes and then share these learnings with family and friends. These modifications in behavior can result in participants making healthier food choices, moving more and losing weight, as well as lowering blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels, among other improvements.

In addition to helping members of their communities improve their heart health, CCH Grant Awardees are working to share their program success stories and lessons learned. We are proud of our CCH Grant Awardees’ efforts this year to present their learnings through webinars and at conferences, and many developed and distributed program toolkits. These toolkits are intended to serve as a jumping-off point for organizations looking to develop similar heart health programs.

We understand that starting a community health program from scratch can often be a daunting task. We hope other organizations will consider leveraging our collective lessons learned and utilize these resources to adapt and modify cardiovascular health programs in their own communities so that even more lives can be impacted.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN

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Rich Buckley

President AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation

James W. Blasetto, MD, MPH, FACC

Chairman AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation

1. Benjamin EJ, Muntner P, Alonso A, et al; on behalf of the American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. Heart disease and stroke statistics—2019 update: a report from the American Heart Association [published online ahead of print January 31, 2019]. Circulation. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000659.

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DISEASE MANAGEMENT

PREVENTION EDUCATIONACCESS TO HEALTHCARE

CCH-funded programs continue to help individuals improve their heart health through community-based outreach that includes:

Collectively since the program’s inception, over 1.6 MILLION PEOPLE have been reached and OVER 59,000 PARTICIPANTS have been tracked for progress through CCH-funded programs.

— Victor, Program Participant, Corazones Sanos, Westminster Free Clinic

I am grateful for the classes offered because they have taught me the importance of living a

healthy lifestyle. This has improved my Hemoglobin A1C from 10.4 to 6.8, and I feel great!

CCH GRANT AWARDEE PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS ACHIEVE MEASURABLE OUTCOMES LIKE:

INCREASED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

INCREASED KNOWLEDGE OF

CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH

DECREASED WEIGHT

AND/OR BODY MASS INDEX

LOWERED BLOOD

PRESSURE AND/OR

CHOLESTEROL

LOWERED BLOOD SUGAR

IMPROVED NUTRITION AND/OR NUTRITION KNOWLEDGE

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The AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation is committed to sharing lessons learned to help other organizations benefit from these efforts. To support this commitment, the Foundation provided a portion of CCH grant funding toward dissemination efforts. As a result, in 2018 our Grant Awardees accomplished the following:

Presented at 23 conferences at the local, state, national, and global levels

Developed seven program toolkits

Click each cover to explore the toolkits

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CCH GRANT AWARDEE DISSEMINATION EFFORTS

Program funding provided by:

Health Coaching Toolkit

Catherine’s Health Center 2018

A community health collaboration with

Funded by

ACTIVATEYOUR HE RT

Program Implementation Guide

CARDIO-FITPROJEC

PARTNERING FOR YOUTH

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Educating Children to Serve as Heart Health Ambassadors

HEALTHYHEARTBEATS PROGRAM TOOLKIT

A C OMMU N I T Y - B A S E D

C A R D I O V A S C U L A R H E A L T H

I N T E R V E N T I O N

Funding for this Program Provided by:

Expansion of Heart Health 1. 2. 3.

Comprehensive Cardiovascular Diseases Initiative for Diabetes Mellitus, Metabolic Syndrome, and Obesity

West Virginia Health Right, Inc. 1520 Washington Street, East Charleston, WV 25311 304-414-5931 304-343-2091 asettle@wvhealthright.org

Sustainable Change and Lifestyle Enhancement

SCALE (Sustainable Change and Lifestyle Enhancement): In 2014, WV Health Right developed SCALE, a comprehensive program to promote weight loss and health status improvement for low-income uninsured/underinsured adults. The goal of the SCALE program is to assist obese patients in achieving sustained weight loss through personal coaching, group support, nutritional education, improved diet, and regular exercise. Although weight loss classes had been offered through the clinic’s disease prevention and health promotion activities, SCALE represents the first ongoing targeted weight loss program that incorporates diabetes self-management, healthy heart, exercise, nutrition, and healthy cooking. The key program strategies are: 1) Encourage healthy behaviors; 2) Access to healthy food; 3) Healthy cooking techniques; 4) Access to individualized exercise program. These strategies are implemented through personal goal setting, personal coaching, peer support, and Motivational Interviewing techniques. These strategies, coupled with incentives, have proven effective in empowering low in-come, at-risk patients to realize significant, long term health status improvement.

BACKGROUND

WV Health Right, Inc., the state’s oldest and largest free and charitable clinic, provides comprehensive medical, dental, pharmaceutical, behavioral health, vision, and health education services to nearly 20,000 impoverished unin-sured/underinsured adults. More than 60 percent of the clinic’s low-income adult patients are overweight/obese and suffer from multiple chronic illnesses. The clinic’s service area includes 34 south central West Virginia counties.

Westminster Free Clinic

The Foundation helped share lessons learned from its Dissemination and Communications Guide through a two-part webinar series, thanks to collaborative efforts with the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NAFC). Members of each of these organizations learned ways to advance awareness efforts and lessons learned from their community health programs. The Foundation also joined CCH Grant Awardee Mercy Hospital Foundation on a webinar with the Population Health Collaborative of Western NY to share lessons learned from their program.

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WEBINARS

PROGRAM: Healthy Heart Team/Whole Hearts

GRANT AWARD: $100,000 (2017)

PROGRAM: Partnering for Youth Cardio-Fit Project

GRANT AWARD: $100,000 (2017)

PROGRAM: POWER – Patient Outreach With Educational Resources

GRANT AWARD: $93,900 (2017)

PROGRAM: Healthy HeartBeats

GRANT AWARD: $100,000 (2017)

PROGRAM: Corazones Sanos (Healthy Hearts) Program

GRANT AWARD: $100,000 (2017)

PROGRAM: SCALE (Sustainable Change and Lifestyle Enhancement)

GRANT AWARD: $100,000 (2017)

PROGRAM: Expansion of Heart Health 1, 2, 3. Comprehensive Cardiovascular Disease Initiative for Diabetes Mellitus, Metabolic Syndrome, and Obesity

GRANT AWARD: $100,000 (2017)PROGRAM: Extending care for hypertension, heart failure, and diabetes beyond the confines of the healthcare system via neighborhood-based coaching integrated with primary care

GRANT AWARD: $100,000 (2017)

PROGRAM: Heart Smart for Life

GRANT AWARD: $100,000 (2017)

PROGRAM: Activate Your Heart/Active Su Corazon

GRANT AWARD: $99,980 (2017)

North Georgia HealthCare Center, Inc

Sankofa Community Development Corporation

Westminster Free Clinic

West Virginia Health Right, Inc

St. Mary’s Health Wagon

City Health Works

Mercy Hospital Foundation, Inc

Mid Valley Family YMCA

Ten AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation Grant Awardees received a total $993,880 in funding in 2017 to implement their CCH-funded programs through July 2018, and this funding included support for dissemination activities. Visit our website for summaries of each program.

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CCH GRANT AWARDEES

Catherine’s Health Center

Chesapeake Charities, Inc

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PROGRAM: CARDIO: Cardiovascular Awareness Recognizing Diet and Integration of Exercise Options

GRANT AWARD: $149,930 (2018)

PROGRAM: Heart Smart for Life

GRANT AWARD: $89,607 (2018)

PROGRAM: Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Connections for Cardiovascular Health – Heart of the Nation (HON)

GRANT AWARD: $150,000 (2018)

PROGRAM: Healthy Heartbeats

GRANT AWARD: $90,000 (2018)

PROGRAM: Healthy Hearts in the Heart of the City

GRANT AWARD: $148,863 (2018)

PROGRAM: SCALE (Sustainable Changes and Lifestyle Enhancement)

GRANT AWARD: $90,000 (2018)

PROGRAM: Corazones Sanos (Healthy Hearts) Program

GRANT AWARD: $90,000 (2018)

*New Grant Awardee.

PROGRAM: Expansion of Heart Health 1, 2, 3. Comprehensive Cardiovascular Disease Initiative for Diabetes Mellitus, Metabolic Syndrome, and Obesity

GRANT AWARD: $89,910 (2018)

PROGRAM: Healthy Heart Team/Whole Hearts

GRANT AWARD: $90,000 (2018)

PROGRAM: Partnering for Youth Cardio-Fit Project

GRANT AWARD: $88,447 (2018)

PROGRAM: Take Control of Your Health

GRANT AWARD: $90,000 (2018)

Mercy Hospital Foundation, Inc

Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation*

Sankofa Community Development Corporation

University of Mississippi*

West Virginia Health Right, Inc

Westminster Free Clinic

St. Mary’s Health Wagon

Catherine’s Health Center

Chesapeake Charities, Inc

Mallory Community Health Center

In November 2018, the AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation awarded a total of $1,048,793 in CCH program grant funding to eleven organizations to implement heart health programs in their communities. In addition, eight repeat funded organizations received up to $15,000 each in dissemination grant funding, for total of $117,964, to support sharing lessons learned via conference presentations, program toolkits and publications through 2020. Visit our website for summaries of each program.

CCH GRANT AWARDEES (cont’d)

Asian Health Coalition*

James W. Blasetto, MD, MPH, FACCChairman and TrusteeAstraZeneca

Rich BuckleyPresident and TrusteeAstraZeneca

Christie BloomquistTrusteeAstraZeneca

Matt DiggonsTrusteeAstraZeneca

Timothy J. Gardner, MDTrustee Adjunct Professor of Surgery Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Howard Hutchinson, MD, FACCTrusteeAstraZeneca

Michael Miller, MD, FACC, FAHATrustee Professor, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology & Public Health University of Maryland School of Medicine Director, Center for Preventive Cardiology University of Maryland Medical Center

L. Kristin Newby, MD, MHSTrusteeProfessor of Medicine, CardiologyCo-Director, Duke Cardiac Care Unit

Amy Ponpipom Secretary and TrusteeAstraZeneca

Joyce JacobsonExecutive Director

David E. WhiteTreasurer

Keith Burns Assistant Treasurer

Kevin DurningAssistant Treasurer

Ronald E. PawlakAssistant Treasurer

Theresa RoglerAssistant Treasurer

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS

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