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Video: How Gainesville barbers are fighting against high blood pressure

Barber Asad Abdul-Rahman Ibn Bilal places a blood pressure monitor on a customer's wrist. Gainesville Fire Rescue is placing the monitors in barbershops to help customers check their health in a comfortable, familiar environment.
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Barber Asad Abdul-Rahman Ibn Bilal places a blood pressure monitor on a customer's wrist. Gainesville Fire Rescue is placing the monitors in barbershops to help customers check their health in a comfortable, familiar environment.

Gainesville Fire Rescue is placing free blood pressure monitors in barbershops to help customers check their health in a comfortable, familiar environment.

Gainesville barbershops serve as trusted community spaces where relationships with clients go far beyond the haircut.

Through a new initiative called Fresh Fades and Healthy Hearts, Gainesville Fire Rescue is placing free blood pressure monitors in barbershops to help customers check their health in a comfortable, familiar environment.
We looked into how this partnership is turning a simple trip to the barber into a lifesaving resource for the community.

Fresh fades and healthy hearts: How Gainesville barbers are fighting against high blood pressure


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