"Go Red For Women" Half-Hour TV Special Airs December 9, 8-8:30 pm, on WTLV and WJXX

Jacksonville, Florida, December 2, 2009 -- On Wednesday, December 9, 2009, First Coast News WTLV NBC-12 and WJXX ABC-25 will air GO RED FOR WOMEN--an American Heart Association's Choose To Live program brought to you by First Coast News and Baptist Health.

The First Coast News Phone Bank will be active from 5-8:30 pm, and will be staffed by physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals with Baptist Health, ready and willing to answer your heart health questions! Just call the First Coast News Phone Bank Hot Line Number: 904.632.1200.

First Coast News Anchor Jeannie Blaylock will be on hand as the local host of the special half-hour program, "Go Red for Women," which will air on both WTLV and WJXX from 8 - 8:30 pm. "Go Red for Women" is hosted nationally by Today Show and Dateline's Hoda Kotb, and educates viewers on the importance of heart health. Celebrity guest Andie MacDowell, who lost her mother to heart disease, shares her personal passion for the "Go Red for Women" movement. MacDowell also encourages women to make healthy lifestyle choices that can prevent heart disease. This special focuses on real women sharing their own personal health choices, struggles and successes, with experts from Baptist Health offering their heart health advice.

"Go Red for Women's" goal is a 25% reduction in coronary heart disease and stroke risk among women by the year 2010. By teaching more and more women how to talk to their doctors about heart disease, thousands of lives can be saved every year.

Thanks to the participation of millions of people across the country, the color red and the red dress now stand for the ability all women have to improve their heart health and live stronger, longer lives.

So give it some thought--write down a few questions, and take advantage of the opportunity to talk one-on-one with a healthcare professional from Baptist Health--about your heart health concerns!

The "Go Red for Women" initiative is sponsored by First Coast News WTLV NBC-12 and WJXX ABC-25 and Baptist Health. For more information, call 202-CARE (2273) or click here.