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Meet the Black healthcare innovators from the New Voices + "Release the Pressure" Health Innovators Hub and learn how they built businesses that advance health equity and address critical healthcare issues in the Black community, including heart health. "Release the Pressure" (RTP) brings together Black women from across America, reminding them to prioritize self-care to improve their heart health. Protect your magic, protect your heart!
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00:00So policy within the healthcare environment is so important.
00:04One thing that holds clear, especially when you're working with underserved communities,
00:08which is what we work with, and standing business, but working with the African American community,
00:14is access to quality care, engagement of underserved communities, and equity.
00:21And it's important for us to advocate for policies that support these types of things,
00:26because there's so many people that don't have access to quality care,
00:30access to quality cardiac care that looks just like us.
00:34So cardiac supports this.
00:36We are in Texas, we're in Dallas, and our congresswoman is Jasmine Crockett.
00:42And so we have a powerful woman that we can go to that supports us with NIH grants
00:50for creating technology just like what cardiac fit is built on
00:55to increase innovation.
00:56That's going to increase access to rural populations and underserved populations.
01:00So thank you so much.
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