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Health Equity

Working toward health equity is the right thing to do for all organizations. Research shows that promoting health equity can benefit employee health and productivity, and reduce health care costs. The health of the entire nation will improve if employers commit to actions that eliminate inequities – benefitting employees, their families and their communities.
Driving Health Equity in the Workforce

Pets Make Work Better

Pets can benefit your employees’ health in many different ways. They can help raise fitness levels. They can help lower stress, blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar. Best of all, pets can boost people’s overall happiness and well-being. We have the science to prove it!

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Pets as Coworkers

Pet-friendly Perks are Valuable to Employees

Pets are Our WFH #Coworkers

Enjoy a Day Off from Your Home Office

This June, more companies are going pet-friendly

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Employee Engagement Opportunities and other resources

Together Tuesdays™

Weekly sit-down meals with family, friends or coworkers can reduce stress, boost self-esteem and connect people. Get employee engagement back on track with Together Tuesday, a simple weekly meal or snack time when coworkers get to know each other better.

Learn about Together Tuesdays at Work

CycleNation

Let’s be real: Cycling is not only fun, it’s a way to look good and feel good. Whether it be on the road or on a stationary bike, we’re cycling towards better brain and heart health.

Find a CycleNation near you

Field Day

Ditch the Keyboard for the scoreboard. Field Day puts the playspace in your workplace while raising funds for the American Heart Association to end heart disease and stroke.

Find a Field Day event near you

Heart Walk

The Heart Walk is the American Heart Association's premier event for raising funds to save lives from this country's No. 1 and No. 5 killers - heart disease and stroke.

Find a Heart Walk near you

Volunteerism

The American Heart Association depends on the time and talent of volunteers to help us create a healthier world, free of heart disease and stroke. Find your volunteer opportunity.

Volunteer Opportunities

Together Tuesdays™

Weekly sit-down meals with family, friends or coworkers can reduce stress, boost self-esteem and connect people. Get employee engagement back on track with Together Tuesday, a simple weekly meal or snack time when coworkers get to know each other better.

Learn about Together Tuesdays at Work

Life's Essential 8™

Life’s Essential 8 are the key measures for improving and maintaining cardiovascular health, as defined by the American Heart Association. Better cardiovascular health helps lower the risk for heart disease, stroke and other major health problems.

Learn about Life's Essential 8

CEO Roundtable

While many companies offer workplace health programs, we lack the necessary data to know what works best. That’s why CEOs from many of the world’s largest and most admired companies joined with the AHA to create the CEO Roundtable to take bold action to help create solutions and systemic change for companies across the country.

Learn about the CEO Roundtable

Save A Life. Learn CPR.

More than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the U.S. each year. Only about 40% of those people receive the immediate emergency care they need. Make it easier for your employees to learn Hands-Only CPR and become lifesavers, not just bystanders, in the workplace.

Learn about Hands-Only CPR

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Sample HR Policies

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Insights from Thought Leaders

We’ve curated content including on-demand podcasts with HR leaders, updates on U.S. employee sentiment and analysis of today’s HR issues.

Healthy Workplace

Food and Beverage Toolkit
The American Heart Association’s Healthy Workplace Food and Beverage Toolkit was created to help employers improve their food environment and promote a culture of health. It provides practical action steps and suggestions that are easy to understand and apply.

Healthy Workplace Food and Beverage Toolkit (PDF)