Heart month 2025
LOVE YOUR HEART. WE DO.
February is American Heart Month and Salinas Valley Health wants to make sure you stay active, educated and healthy. Here are our heart-focused events for the month!
FREE Ask The Experts Presentation
Join our "Ask The Experts" presentation to gain insightful knowledge that empowers you to live well and prioritize your heart’s health.
Location: 5 Lower Ragsdale Drive, Monterey
Cardiovascular diseases are a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels which include coronary heart disease, peripheral artery disease, and congenital heart disease among others. Learn more about cardiovascular diseases in this virtual Ask the Experts Presentation from 2024 featuring interventional cardiologist, Rikin Kadakia, MD.
Ask The Experts Podcasts
Listen to our experts whenever you want! Salinas Valley Health offers the community free health podcasts. Listen to our board certified cardiologists discuss important heart health topics, surgeries and non-invasive procedures.
In this podcast, cardiothoracic surgeon, Vincent DeFilippi, MD, discusses how the obesity epidemic is having an impact on heart disease. Love your heart. We do.
En este podcast, el cirujano cardiotorácico, Vincent DeFilippi, MD, analiza como la epidemia de obesidad está teniendo un impacto en las enfermedades cardíacas. Ama tu corazón, igual que nosotros.
Several months after undergoing open heart surgery, Roy Gobets says he is grateful for the continuum of world class cardiac care he has received at Salinas Valley Health. This is his story.
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Other events and resources
Salinas Valley Health is a leader in heart disease prevention and treatment. Below are a few other heart-focused resources and events available to the community.
Exercise Challenge
Exercise is one of our best tools towards preventing chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure, elevated cholestorol and heart disease. Salinas Valley Health invites you to participate in the 2025 Exercise Challenge as a part of Heart Month. Exercise Challenge is an annual community-wide fitness challenge that encourages participants to achieve 150 minutes or more of aerobic activity each week during the month of February.
For more information about this challenge, visit SalinasValleyHealth.com/exercisechallenge2025.
Para leer esta información y aprender más sobre el Desafío de Ejercicio de Salinas Valley Health en español, visite SalinasValleyHealth.com/exercisechallenge2025.
Walk With A Doc
Salinas Valley Health invites the community to Walk With A Doc. A Salinas Valley Health provider will answer participant's questions during and after the walk on the specific health topic. Participants will walk between 1.5- 2 miles. Healthy snacks and health information will also be provided to participants.
Join us for the next walk on February 8, 2025. This walk will be led by our Chief Clinical Officer, Timothy Albert, MD, MHCM, as he discusses how to lower your risk for developing heart disease.
Register Here / Registrarse Aquí
To learn more about what the Walk With A Doc program is, click here.
Go Red For Women
Celebrate National Wear Red Day® with Go Red For Women on February 7, 2025 to help fight women’s No. 1 killer—heart disease. Join the movement nationwide and learn how you can honor women by going to www.goredforwomen.org.
February Red Hat Campaign
Every baby born at Salinas Valley Health Medical Center during the month of February will go home with a hand-made red hat courtesy of our own dedicated hat making volunteers and the American Heart Association Little Hats Big Hearts campaign.
Heart Healthy Recipes
Nutrition and healthy eating habits are the cornerstone to a healthy heart. Make healthy eating a priority today and try a new and delicious recipe here.
Mended Hearts
Learn more about our heart care
Salinas Valley Health is a leader in heart disease prevention and treatment. To view a list of the awards we have earned for our cardiac care, click here. Find out more about our physicians and services at Cardiologists in Salinas, CA | Cardiac Care in Monterey County.
See a full list of events and activities here.
