2009-2010 Board of DirectorsMr. John Carter Chair

Dr. George Zimakas Vice-Chair

Mrs. Mary Catherine Lindberg Treasurer

Ms. Ellen Wodchis Secretary

Dr. Doug Munkley Past-Chair

Ms. Karen Stearne Executive Director

Mrs. Laurie ColumbusMr. John CunnaneMrs. Angela KellyMs. Carol Maidens

Heart Niagara StaffRoseMary Collini

Event & Fund Development

Nancy DickAccounting

Josie Faccini Regional Physician Recruitment

Anita Fiorentino Schools’ Expeditor

Jo-Anne Gale Offi ce Manager

Don Gibson NP-PHC

Tara Groot Sonographer

Christopher HaynesGraphic Artist

Tracey KavanaughStress Technician

Allison LarsenNiagara Sport Commission Coordinator

Olya MakerewichHealthy Heart Schools’ Program Administrator

Scott McRobertsNiagara Sport Commission Director

Terra Pasco Program Support

Diane Pouliot Sonographer

Karen Stearne Executive DirectorCherri Borg

Bingo Co-ordinatorBen Vacca

Bingo Chair - 2009

Heart Niagara contracts over 30 independent health professionals, CPR, First Aid,

AED instructors to deliver health services, training, workplace wellness and the

Public Access Defi brillation Program.

Key Successes in 2009• Partnering with Toronto Sick Kids Research Team regarding the Healthy Heart Schools’ Program

• Research data was presented at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2009 in Edmonton on Tuesday October 26, 2009.

• Heart Niagara and the Niagara School Boards’ received national television coverage for the grade 9 physical education curriculum enrichment program designed to prevent chronic disease in Niagara adolescents.

• Heart Niagara and Niagara School Boards’ received international recognition in over 200 media outlets on the research done in the Healthy Heart Schools’ Program 2002-2008.

• Due to partnership the Healthy Heart Schools’ Program was improved to provide data that meets best and informed practice guidelines

• The research partnership will enable Heart Niagara to produce landmark research in adolescent health.

• Heart Niagara hosted Docs on Ice Niagara bringing 800 physicians to Niagara over three days in April 2009.

• Secured funding to develop the foundation for the Niagara Sport Commission.

• Secured funding for smoking medication therapy.

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• ACT Foundation• Brock University• Conseil Scolaire de District du Centre-Sud-Ouest • Conseil Scolaire de District Catholique Centre-Sud • District School Board of Niagara• Healthy Living Niagara• Heart & Stroke Foundation• Niagara Catholic School Board• Niagara Region Public Health • Niagara Health System• Region of Niagara• YMCA of Niagara• and the corporate community

Heart Niagara is built on strategic cooperation among non-profi ts, corporate, industry, academia and government., academia and government.

Funding is received through

• Ministry of Health

• Ministry of Health Promotion

• Region of Niagara

• Branscombe Family Foundation

• Niagara Community Foundation

• Sick Kids Hospital

• Trillium Foundation

• Community events

• Corporate sponsorship

• Community donors

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Sport holds promise to build a stronger Niagara by engaging families, and increasing the health and well being of business and citizens alike. Sport is widely recognized as a tool for community development, a way to increase safety and reduce crime, to promote health and social inclusion, and to empower individuals to realize their potential.The Niagara Sport Commission supports local sport organizations and their committed volunteers who deliver sport to the youth, adolescents and adults in Niagara. To increase opportunities to develop into leaders, and to feel good about their contribution. The Niagara Sport Commission will provide a coordinated effort to recruit and train volunteers, improve access to facilities and sport opportunities, and to further develop a culture of sport across Niagara. The Niagara Sport Commission continues to work with economic development to increase sport tourism in Niagara. We encourage people from across the Region to help realize the promise of sport in Niagara, and join the Niagara Sport Commission by signing up for our e-newsletter, and to get involved in local sport.

Call today to get to involved Phone: 905-354-5557 Fax: 905-354-9575 info@niagarasportcommission.com www.niagarasportcommission.com

Where community and business play

Heart Niagara 2010 Special Events

All dollars raised through special events are used

to deliver programming in Niagara Real Gals Royaltea with Heart - Club Italia February 21, 2010

Real Gals who wanna Golf - Grand Niagara May 11, 2010Edge of the Field - Hosted by Don Chew & George Zimakas

August 13, 2010Hearts in Motion Golf - Grand Niagara October 6, 2010Real Gals who Lunch - Club Italia November 13, 2010

Heart Niagara appreciates the volunteers who support the Annual Campaigns

In Memorium Program - through online and funeral home donations Bingo Events - Delta Bingo Hall, Niagara Falls

Nevada Tickets - Sunnyside Market, St. Catharines

Thanks to our community the following Events will benefi t Heart Niagara

Smuggler’s Cove Boat Club Spaghetti Dinner St. Davids Lions Hall February 20, 2010

Pete Stoutenburg Memorial Hockey Tournament Haig Bowl Arena April 9 April 10, 2010

Two Hearts in Motion Our Lady of Peace Hall March 27, 2010

Emil Breuer Memorial Soccer Tournament German Village July 30-31 August 1

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Healthy Heart Schools’ Program

The Healthy Heart Schools’ Program is designed to support teachers in delivering the physical education curriculum to increase student’s knowledge of cardiovascular risk factors, heart healthy lifestyle choices and cardiopulmonary emergency response.

This enrichment program includes a personal assessment of fi tness, a health questionnaire, an assessment day with height, weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, blood pressure, total and HDL cholesterol testing, and bystander CPR training.

When health issues are outside the limits set by the guidelines a referral is sent to the student’s family doctor, and a letter and phone call home to the parents.

Research made possible because of the program shows that • More than one in fi ve teenagers has at least one risk factor for heart disease such as obesity and high cholesterol.

• Between the years 2002 and 2008, the number of grade 9 students with one or more cardiovascular risk factors rose to 21 per cent from 17 per cent.

• The number of obese teens went from 11 per cent to 13 per cent, while those with elevated cholesterol almost doubled from nine per cent to 16 per cent.

• “The fi gures mirror what’s going on in Canadian society overall,” said Dr. Brian McCrindle, a pediatric cardiologist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

• “At least three-quarters of teens who are overweight or obese stay that way as adults, and have the highest risk for heart attacks and strokes,” said McCrindle.

Solutions for the students and families include discussions around identifi ed problem BMI’s, waist circumferences, blood pressures, and cholesterols are the same simple messages we all know, increase physical activity and improve healthy eating. Adolescents should be getting 10,000 to 15,000 steps a day on average. Included in those steps there should be a period of activity every day for at least 30 to 45 minutes where they are a little bit short of breath. Health Canada portion sizes are the most important nutritional issue for the teenagers. The quality of food is also very important and we all know that the most important foods are vegetables and fruit.

For more information go to www.heartniagara.com

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Mayor Brian McMullan

On behalf of City Council I wish to express its appreciation to Heart Niagara for its continued dedication to improving the health of Niagara residents.

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• Recruiting, training, & recognizing the efforts of volunteers.

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To Perform CPR:• Check for scene safety• Check for unresponsiveness• CALL 911• Get AED or send someone to get AED • Tilt head back and lift chin ( LOOK-LISTEN-FEEL)• Check for visible signs of circulation• If not breathing, pinch nose, cover mouth and give 2 breaths (1 second each)• Start chest compressions (compress and breathe at a ratio of 30 to 2)

When AED Arrives:• Turn on AED• Bare chest and apply electrode pads• Follow visual and voice prompts

Continue CPR Until:• The victim shows effective signs of circulation or EMS takes over

Conscious Choking Victim:• Ask, “Are you choking?”• If the person can speak, breathe or cough, DO NOT INTERFERE!• Give abdominal thrusts until successful or person becomes unconscious

UnconsciousChoking Victim:• Call 911• Check for breathing (LOOK-LISTEN-FEEL)• Attempt to give 2 breaths (1 second each)• Position your hands for chest compressions 30-2• Open mouth, remove any objects• Repeat with 2 breaths and 30 compressions until the victim starts breathing or EMS takes over

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Niagara Region high schools to receive automated external defi brillators (AED).

4,500 Niagara Region high school students to receive lifesaving AED training.

The Advanced Coronary Treatment (ACT) Foundation is thrilled to announce that as a result of a unique new partnership between ACT, the Government of Ontario, First Ontario Credit Union, and Heart Niagara Inc., more than 4,500 Niagara Region high school students in 30 schools will be trained each year

on the use of an automated external defi brillator (AED). This lifesaving training will help expand students’ capacity to respond to

cardiac emergencies beyond their CPR training.

Funding will provide an AED for 23 Niagara high schools and AED training units and mannequins for student training, adding to the

schools in the region which already have an AED. This generous donation will ensure every high school in both the District School Board of Niagara and the Niagara Catholic District School Board has the lifesaving unit on

site, as well as the knowledge and training to use it in emergencies that might involve teachers, students, or citizens attending adult

education or community events.

The program will be an enhancement to the established region-wide grade 9 CPR training program, delivered by Heart Niagara. First Ontario Credit

Union is providing the funds and Heart Niagara will provide implementation and training.

For more information call 905-358-5552

CommunityPreparedness Did you know? Cardiovascular disease accounts for the deaths of more Canadians than any other disease.

Almost 80% of cardiac arrests occur at home and are witnessed by a family member.

50% of people do not survive their fi rst heart attack.

CPR can double a victim’s chance of survival by maintaining vital blood

fl ow to the heart and brain until more advanced care can be given.

What is PAD?Public access defi brillation (PAD) is a program, which provides defi brillators in places where large numbers of people gather and/or where people who are at high risk for heart attacks live.

What is an AED?The Automated External Defi brillator (AED) is a medicaldevice that can check a person’s heart rhythm. It uses voice prompts, lights and text messages to tell the rescuer the steps to take. Lay rescuers with a few hours of training can operate an AED safely.

What is Family and Friends CPR Anytime?Family and Friends CPR Anytime is a self-directed, personal CPR kit that makes learning the core skills of CPR easy, convenient and affordable for the whole family. The kit includes a CPR practice DVD, infl atable CPR manikin and information booklet. It takes just 22 minutes to learn and can be done at home, at school or in a corporate setting. This kit does not provide certifi cation in CPR. The kit costs $35.00.

How can you impact PAD and CPR in your community?Heart Niagara has many tools to help you get started in the community. We can help you:

• work with an elementary school in your area to sponsor CPR training for students• install an AED device in your workplace and train staff to operate the unit.• promote the Friends & Family CPR Anytime training in the workplace.

For more information call 905-358-5552

Are you and your family involved?

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, drainedIt is now clear that arteriosclerotic process leading to adult heart disease begins inchildhood. The Niagara strategy founded twenty-three years ago by Heart Niagara, the only one of its kind in Canada, makes direct contact with every grade ninestudent and their parents in the Niagara region through the Healthy Heart Schools’ Program.

Heart disease is reaching an epidemic in 2010The Healthy Heart Schools’ Program designed by Heart Niagara to investigate possible increase in coronary heart disease risk among all Niagara adolescents is a positive solution.

The only time Canadians are 100% available for assessment of increased risk of coronary heart disease is at school.

Heart Niagara through strategic alliances will continue to notify, and inform, those individuals, and their parents, of the measures to take to prevent the progression of heart disease into the adult years.

Dr. Stafford Dobbin, Medical Director Healthy Heart Schools’ Program

Visit our website and see the TV News coverage www.heartniagara.com

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Partners in Your Health – a smoke cessation strategyIt is our vision that all smokers, regardless of where they live, have full access to

the programs, supports and medications to help them quit permanently.

We know that most smokers want to quit and we have a responsibility to help them. Heart Niagara has trained health care professionals in

cessation counseling, smoking medications, systemic cessation measures that highlight both the interim and the fi nal successes.

Heart Niagara hopes that this program will be a springboard for promoting the policy changes required to help all Canadians who want to quit smoking with resources. Tobacco use is still the most signifi cant

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Your group can earn high profi ts selling a useful product that people need and use every day! Offer a product that will be welcomed by your supporters - virtually every household uses cleaning products! The more supporters like the product, the more they will purchase, and the more money your organization will make! Call us for a custom logo on your kits imprinting quote. • $8.00 per unit for your school, organization or club • FREE sales material • FREE freight on stock orders • FREE custom labeling • No minimum order requirements • No Upfront Cost and No Risk to your organization - you lose nothing!

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Mary LeskiwMichael LeskiwEli LevanoniTom Liefi Denny LindbergGuy LindleyJeff LittleOwen LittleKen LittlewoodElizabeth LockhartFran LococoMarie LococoDon LombardiMary LombardiJames LondonRose LongRichard LoretoBetty Joyce LoringFrank LostraccoAl LucianoMike LudchenLeslie Bruce LundyNick LuongoJames LynettJohn MacDonaldRobert MacDonaldRobert MacInnisAnna MacKenzieGale MacKinnon Deanie MacLeanLaurie MacLeodRobert MacLeodEileen MacRaePasquale MacriAngie MaidaCarol MaidensFrancesca MaioloOlya MakerewichJoe ManciniRobert MancoFrank MarcheseGiuseppina MarcheseFrank MarchioEric MarconLisa MarconRachel MarconReno MarconTheresa MargittayCamilla MarinelliJohn MarkelSusan MarksCirillo MartignagoLena MartignagoCarney MartinCathy MartinCraig MartinDennis MartinFred MartinGary MartinJohn MartinMargaret MartinMaria MartinoMario MassiMargaret Mastria

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The Niagara Medical Group and Family Health Team offers its congratulations to the Board, Staff and Volunteers of Heart Niagara on 34 years of sustained devotion to Primary and Secondary Preventionof Coronary Heart Disease in the Niagara Peninsula.

4421 Queen St., Niagara Falls, ON

64045293

On behalf of the staff and members of our board; Thank you Heart Niagara for your years of service.

The Niagara Falls Community Health Centreis now open.

If you are a resident of Niagara Falls and do not have a family doctor, call us at

905-356-4222and let us help you!

Chair: Niagara Falls Community Health Centre

www.NFCHC.ca

Joyce Morocco

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The Niagara Physician Recruitment Program has worked effectively in the past 8 years to recruit Family Physicians to the Niagara Region. In 2008 alone, 15 new doctors are providing Primary care to our residents. There iscontinued interest expressed from general practitioners and medical students wanting to explore the practice opportunities in Niagara.

Please go to our website to search for a doctor in your community.

www.niagaradocs.com

“Thanks to funding from our partners, corporations and generous individual donations, especially during February, Heart Month, we have been able to allocate over 230 AED units in communities across Niagara,” says Karen Stearne, ED Heart Niagara. “A life saved is a testament to what happens when individuals in the community learn CPR, and use an AED when it is within reach in public places.”

“In cases of cardiac arrest, the early use of CPR and AEDs can make the difference between life and death,” “We need community members to perform these life-saving skills before our emergency services arrive, to ensure the best possible chance of survival. “As emergency physicians we know fi rst hand how successful immediate CPR or AED intervention can be in helping to save lives and in reducing the impact of cardiac arrest on patients andtheir families,” said Medical Director Dr. Doug Munkley.

“Minutes become very precious asimmediate resuscitation or defi brillation can often prevent a fatality or longer-term health problems following a cardiac event.”

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Heart Niagara would like to thank JBI for providing an opportunity to fundraise

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D M Y Y

1. Provide prevention research for heart disease and many other chronic diseases which include stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obesity.

2. Educate Niagarians on how to lower their risk of developing diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, tobacco use, and high cholesterol

3. Increase the community’s CPR and defi brillator training and ability to save lives with faster responses to sudden cardiac arrest emergencies

4. Support the placement of automatic external defi brillators (AED) in community settings across Niagara - each year AED’s save lives in Niagara

5. Increases access for all to sport and recreation

6. Provide early identifi cation and referral for individuals who are at high risk for heart disease through workplace HDL On-Site programming. 7. Support education to over 7,000 adolescents in schools with individual teaching on how to prevent heart disease

8. Provide very early identifi cation and referral for adolescents who are at risk for developing future premature heart disease through the Healthy Heart Schools’ Program.

9. Inspires families to live a healthier lifestyle together

10. Increase access to heart health services in Niagara