Northside friends, I want to share with you the progress we are making on one of the projects near and dear to my heart: creating a pollinator garden at the Heart of Northside. Did you know that one-third of the food we eat depends on the pollination of plants? Pollination Read more
The Heart of Northside has been developing community-embedded Blood Pressure Stations to help combat one of the greatest risk factors of heart attacks and strokes – hypertension. We learned a lot from the station we created that served the Northside Farmers Market in 2024. For example, even in a group Read more
On 15 Feb 2025, the Heart of Northside started a conversation with the community about health at the Heart of Northside Health Fair. Our hope and plan is for this to be the first of many such events. Vendors from all over the city attended, and their enthusiasm and support Read more
The goal of creating a community health center here in the Heart of Northside is becoming a reality, and I wanted to share with you some of the great progress that you have all helped us achieve in 2024. I bought this wonderful building, the old North Presbyterian Church, with Read more
Focusing on gratitude has transformed how I feel about the world and how I interact with it. I grew up up in a large family in a small apartment in the Arverne-Edgemere projects of Rockaway in Queens New York. My parents were often stressed about money. There was a lot Read more
The Heart of Northside was honored to host the Flavors of Freedom Festival in November 2024, a collaboration between the Cincinnati Palestine Solidarity Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine (University of Cincinnati). The event’s proceeds support the work of three critical organizations: Khartoum Aid Kitchen in Sudan, Goma Upendo Read more
It’s finally happening: Dr. Florence Rothenberg is opening the first in-person neighborhood Blood Pressure Station at the Northside Farmers’ Market in July. She says, “It is my mission to help you identify your risk factors for heart disease, the number one killer of American women and men, and to use Read more
Many people ask me about how physicians know when to treat certain medical problems. For example, how do we decide what high blood pressure is? How did we figure out how to treat high blood pressure? How long do we have to treat it? There’s no better way to explain Read more
I am beyond thrilled to announce that the Heart of Northside is one of the recipients of the Northside Community Fund Annual Grant! This fund, which is professionally managed by the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, sponsors community projects and nonprofit organizations in the Northside area. Please click here to find out Read more
The Mediterranean Diet has been talked about a lot lately, and given all the confusion about different diets I think it’s important to understand what it is, and what it isn’t. The Mediterranean Diet isn’t really a “diet”, exactly. In the 1940’s, a physiologist and scientist named Ancel Keyes, PhD, Read more