Libraries with Heart

Local media highlight Libraries With Heart’s expansion into Western Massachusetts

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Libraries in Greenfield and Montague are the latest in Massachusetts to join Libraries With Heart, offering blood-pressure monitor kits for patrons to borrow at home. This expansion builds on recent launches in Franklin and Brockton, helping bring heart-health tools into trusted community spaces.

New program empowers Upper Valley residents to control high blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke 

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American Heart Association provides blood pressure equipment to several public libraries in Vermont and New Hampshire  They’ve always been a resource center for the community, and a new program in … Read more

In this Massachusetts city, a library card can now help save your heart

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A new American Heart Association program at the Brockton Public Library makes heart health simple with a free self-service blood pressure monitor in the lobby and loaner cuffs to track numbers at home.