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Now, in its 20th year, WomenHeart has successfully:
- Developed the only national network of patient support groups across the country – nearly 100 in more than 30 states.
- Trained more than 900 women heart disease survivors as community educators via the WomenHeart Science & Leadership Symposium in collaboration with Mayo Clinic.
- Hosted bi-annual Advocacy Institute conferences to train women living with heart disease to be public policy advocates and form the basis of a grassroots policy movement.
- Created the Red Bag of Courage® program placing educational information about women and heart disease directly into the hands of hundreds of thousands of women living with or at-risk for heart disease.
- Held the first National Policy & Science Summit for women’s cardiovascular health.