Dr. Yoleetah Ilodi & Iriel Hopkins discuss Juneteenth and its importance. Listen and learn more in this episode of Healthy Vitals.

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Summa Health is helping to educate and employ young adults with disabilities one student at a time through Project SEARCH. Since 2005, Summa Health has partnered with the Six District Educational Compact, a regional collaborative that provides career-technical education programs, to offer high-school students a one-year, school-to-work transition program on-site. Modeled after the growing Project SEARCH national program, the initiative is designed to help qualified students...

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Updated February 2025 You may have heard heart disease and stroke are the No. 1 killers in women. But did you know that cardiovascular disease, including stroke, disproportionately affects Black women? It’s true. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), 60 percent of Non-Hispanic Black women aged 20 and older have some form of cardiovascular disease. Black women have almost two times higher risk of stroke than Caucasians and are sadly more likely to die at an...

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February is Black History Month, when we recognize African-Americans and those of color who have played major roles in shaping our present culture. February is also American Heart Health month – a time to raise awareness of heart disease. While these two events are different, they are linked in healthcare. Heart disease remains the number one killer of Americans, and African-Americans are 20 percent more likely to die from heart disease than non-Hispanic whites. We do not...

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Listen to this episode of the Healthy Vitals Podcast featuring Drs. Yoleetah and George Ilodi.

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Type 2 diabetes is at an all-time high in the United States. One of three types of diabetes - a disease that causes your blood glucose levels to rise higher than normal - type 2 has a direct correlation with your choices in diet and the amount of physical activity you do on a regular basis. Did you know that the CDC estimates 40 percent of all US adults have type 2 diabetes? Another staggering statistic: 50 percent of all U.S. Hispanics will develop this disease and they are twice as likely to die from it. More than 30 million Americans have diabetes and 1 in 4 don’t even know they have it.

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