URBAN CALL — HEALTHY LIVING EVERY DAY!
We’re all in this together—fighting COVID-19
• Helping to accelerate antiviral drugs to combat COVID-19. • Leveraging their science and relationships to help lead the conversation about the coronavirus and how it affects at-risk patients. • Advocating for policies that ensure families nationwide have access to care, frontline health workers have the ability to care for people with medical needs and charitable organizations can
activity. The health and economic crisis is taking a toll on many families, especially those with limited resources. • Filling in the cracks not covered by government services while providing lifesustaining support for underresourced communities. • Increasing support for families living in public housing that are struggling to pay rent due to missed paychecks or layoffs, providing daycare and mental health services for struggling parents, and delivering healthy foods to the elderly and disadvantaged who cannot travel outside. • Working with parents and teachers to keep kids healthy and active while away from school. Source American Heart Association
Making an Impact Against COVID-19: Committed to Fighting Coronavirus
American Heart Association Champions
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continue their life-changing work. • Urging governors and state legislatures to take immediate steps to provide access to the more than 4.4 million more Americans that could have health coverage if their state expanded Medicaid. • Working to ensure the greatest needs of communities are prioritized, including access to care, financial support, proper nourishment, and physical
Angela Bassett, Actress
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Star Jones, TV Host
Gerald Johnson, AHA
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Jimmy Davies, Founder
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Dr. Eduardo Sanchez
Millions of Americans are infected with COVID19. More than 200,000 have died. People are struggling financially. Health care workers are overwhelmed. Life as we knew it is gone – at least for a while. It’s a dismal picture we’re all trying to navigate together. But there is hope. The American Heart Association (AHA) is working with researchers, medical experts, community leaders, businesses, families and more to reduce the impact of the coronavirus. AHA is dedicating its resources to make a difference by: • Meeting the needs of health care workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic • Investing a minimum of $2.5 million to investigate the cardiovascular implications of coronavirus.
Sandra Miller Jones
SMSi Healthy Living Solutions, Inc. Founder & CEO
Lafayette Jones
Publisher, Urban Call; SMSi-Urban Call Marketing, Inc. President & CEO
Let’s all do our part! The primary mission of our SMSi companies is to help in the uphill battle to improve the health of our communities, as our recently updated name, SMSi Healthy Living Solutions clearly emphasizes.To help fight COVID-19 medical experts urge us to: • Wear a mask when you leave your home; • Avoid large crowds and stay 6 feet away from others; • Wash your hands for 20 seconds frequently. We are all in this together. Teaching hospitals and communities how to safely and effectively administer CPR during COVID-19, “This incredibly urgent need has only become more urgent during the pandemic.”
Nancy Brown, CEO American Heart Association