"Healthy Hearts, Healthy Community" Hosted By Shawn Cunningham Set To Debut Season 2 Thanks to Awarded AstraZeneca Foundation Grant

"Healthy Hearts, Healthy Community" Hosted by Shawn Cunningham In For Another Year Run...

(February 2012)--GREAT NEWS! Cary Medical Center which produces "Healthy Hearts, Healthy Community" the monthly tv program hosted by Maine Television Journalist Shawn Cunningham was awarded nearly three hundred thousand dollars to continue the program and their overall community wellness initiative to turn around the astounding rates of heart disease in Northern Maine for another year.



Shawn Cunningham, Host of "Healthy Hearts, Healthy Community" airing on WAGM-TV

At the official press conference held last week in Caribou, Maine the announcement was made the foundation would award $276,000 to the hospital site to continue their successful efforts.



Cary Medical Center was awarded $278,000 by the AstraZeneca Healthcare Foundation to continue their efforts promoting the Healthy Hearts Healthy Community wellness initiative.

 

HHHH Program Host Shawn Cunningham spoke about the tremendous success of the tv series and the initiative as a whole as its literally changing the health and lives of so many county people. The first show of season 2 is already wrapped and the production crew are set to continue throughout the year with more programs, bringing real life dramatic stories and first person accounts of change and empowerment.



Check presentation by the AstraZeneca Healthcare Foundation to Cary Medical Center. Here is Cary CEO Kris Doody accepting the check.



And also bringing the wellness program directly into communities by partnering with local restaurants and businesses that want to promote wellness, healthy diet/nutrition and exercise. Healthy Hearts, Healthy Community is more than lifestyle...its a MOVEMENT.



Cary Medical Center CEO, Kris Doody opening the press conference and the announcement of extended grant money to continue Cary's work in the community.



Check your local listings to watch the program in your area or check out the official website at www.gohealthyhearts.org

  



"Healthy Hearts, Healthy Community" Production Director...and my mentor Frank Grant. Frank is EXTREMELY talented and I'm so lucky to be working with him and taking direction from him.