Forty-three-year-old Michael walked into the George Washington University Hospital Emergency Room complaining of chest pain. The Washington D.C. handyman had no health insurance but was not eligible for any financial assistance programs.
Resource Links
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute:
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
Sister-to-Sister:
http://www.sistertosister.org/
Take One Step - A PBS Health Campaign
www.pbs.org/wgbh/takeonestep
Purchase The Hidden Epidemic - Heart Disease in America
http://shop.wgbh.org/product/show/10328
Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Heart Disease
www.cdc.gov/heartdisease
AARP's Information on Health Insurance
www.aarp.org/issues/dividedwefail
Women and Heart Disease
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/hearttruth/material/index.htm#brochure
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's "Cover the Uninsured"
http://www.covertheuninsured.org/
Health Corner Television, presented by Walgreen's
http://healthcorner.walgreens.com/display/router.aspx
George Washington University Medical Center
http://www.gwumc.edu/
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
http://www.csmc.edu/
Children's National Medical Center
http://www.cnmc.org/
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
http://www.childrenshospitalla.org/
The Cleveland Clinic
http://www.clevelandclinic.org/
New York-Presbyterian: The University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
http://www.nyp.org/
St. Joseph's
http://www.stjosephsatlanta.org/
Venice Family Clinic
http://www.venicefamilyclinic.org/
