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It is National HeartHealth Month – a timeto review how highblood pressure, highcholesterol, and otherheart-related illnessesaffect tens of thousandsof people living in Okla-homa. In fact, Okla-homa ranks third in theU.S. for heart disease.Recent reports haveshown that the risingcosts of the prescriptionstaken monthly to treatthis chronic ailmenthave become too high formany people, even forthose individuals withhealth insurance.

To help address thisissue, partners Regional

Food Bank of Oklahomaand Watertree Healthhave introduced tools tohelp Oklahomans re-ceive affordable heartmedications via the GPSRx-price-lookup-tool anda text code to immedi-ately receive a free Pre-scription Discount Card.As an added benefit,every time a personsaves using this specialcard benefitting the Re-gional Food Bank, Wa-tertree Health makes adonation to the organi-zation to help fighthunger in their localareas.

“One in six Okla-homans struggles withhunger every day,” saidRodney Bivens, execu-

tive director of the Re-gional Food Bank of Ok-lahoma. “This partner-ship with WatertreeHealth is a win-win. Byusing the Regional FoodBank of Oklahoma Pre-scription Discount Card,people in Oklahoma aresaving money and help-ing feed chronically hun-gry children, strugglingseniors and families intheir local communities.To date, more than260,000 meals havebeen provided throughthis partnership.”

Watertree Health in-troduced GPS to helppeople easily find themost up-to-date dis-counted prices on theirprescriptions using the

card, at pharmaciesclose to them -wtree.us/savingstool/FEEDOK. By using thefree Prescription Dis-count Card, Okla-homans can save asmuch as 82 percent offthe full retail price forDiovan and Simvas-tatin, two of the medica-tions regularly pre-scribed to treat highblood pressure and highcholesterol, respectively.

To get a card, visit:WatertreeHealthCard.com/FEEDOK or textFEEDOK to 95577.The card image in thisstory can also be pre-sented to the pharma-cist to obtain Rx sav-ings.

Promoting heart health, helping the hungy

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