Meet The Team

Ms. Dana Hayes- Scott, LE,RN

Meet Dana Hayes, a Nurse and Licensed Esthetician, with a progressive and successful career in
Business Management, Management Leadership and Customer Service. She brings over over 20 years of
experience becoming a servant of her community with her cutting-edge medical expertise and
professionalism. Dana is a business owner of two stable reputable wellness centers, Skin International
and A New Beginnings Wellness Center, that are striving and growing in the field of Health, Beauty and
Wellness.
Dana is dedicated to serving, she is laser focused on the future of our marginalized communities and
how she will continue to support them to prosper vigorously! Her motivation to be in service of others
has been instilled by strong family values coupled with her professional medical experience and
knowledge.
During her years as a Nurse, Dana, witnessed firsthand the lack of knowledge in marginalized
communities with relation to the lifesaving skills needed to perform CPR, First Aid and ADE care. Dana
is not only motivated to increase CPR knowledge but also the importance of stress management. After
reading an article published March 22, 2023 by Shamard Charles, MD, MPH, titled Heart Disease and
Stress in Black people. The article focuses on underlying causes of chronic stress disparities and the risk on the heart, such as perceived discrimination, neighborhood stress, daily stress, family stress,
acculturative stress (stress that occurs when one culture encounters another culture), maternal stress
and environmental stress.
Why does this matter:

According to the CDC, Black men have a 70% higher risk of heart failure compared with white men.
Black women have a 50% higher risk of heart failure compared with white women.
Black adults are more than twice as likely as white adults to be hospitalized for heart failure (May 15, 2022).

Dana believes as millions in our country do...our lives matter and it is imperative that we put ourselves in
optimal positions regarding health and wellness. We must prepare ourselves to give aid to those that
need it, we can not depend on others to take care of our communities.
Dana is charged with ensuring 1 Million life savers in North Carolina and Tennessee are certified by the year 2030.
In the Fall of 2021, she, and her business partner Professor Star Robinson founded The R Care CPR,
LLC; The R stands for Rescue, Revive, Renew. They both understood how imperative it has become to
have the skills necessary to save the lives of our community members and loved ones, especially in
under-served neighborhoods.

Diversity and inclusion are extremely important to The R Care CPR, LLC, and the American Heart Association; together we are targeting barriers regarding race, gender ethnic populations & demographics to ensure we can take care of each other in every situation.
Upon the completion of your certification Dana and The R will take it a step further...you will leave with
skills necessary to manage stress...skills you will be able to use immediately. While we hope that you
never have to use these lifesaving CPR skills, we certify that you will be prepared to act if you do. More
importantly we will teach our life savers how to Renew themselves by de-stressing during their day to
day living and especially after the self-less yet stressful act of CPR.
Let’s Rescue, Revive and Renew TOGETHER!
Dana Hayes, LE, RN

Ms. Star Robinson-Russell, M.Ed.

Meet Star Robinson, an Assistant Professor of Physical Education with an emphasis on Health & Wellness. Professor Robinson serves at Livingstone College, an HBCU in Salisbury, North Carolina. She is an educator with over 25 years of experience, an entrepreneur, a storyteller, and a mother of four. Professor Robinson profoundly understands the world requires an imperative on health and wellness. She has a drive and passion for the future to establish an essential foundation to develop the health and well-being of all people, especially those in minority communities. She is focusing on the future to find ways to support historically marginalized communities to not only survive but to flourish and thrive.

Professor Robinson’s call to action is motivated by personal experience and dedication to be in service of others, she is a three-time Breast Cancer survivor and an Ambassador for the American Cancer Society in Charlotte. Professor Robinson believes that now more than ever, we have shown up for our communities in new spaces and ways over the last several years. Millions of us believe that our lives matter. To reinforce that in our daily behaviors, we must be capable of saving each other in our most significant moments of need. We cannot depend on others to take care of our communities, so we must prepare ourselves to be ready to show up and be of service if one of our community members requires our aid.

Professor Robinson pledges to certify 1 Million life savers in North Carolina and Tennessee by 2030.

Compelled to take action after reading a Duke Health Care Study review of 22,000 cardiac cases from 2008-2011. Approximately 40% of cases of cardiac arrest occur outside of the hospital. Moreover, those who sustain cardiac arrests require life-saving interventions such as CPR.

Why does this matter:

In primarily white neighborhoods, nearly 47% of those cases report receiving CPR as an intervention.
In primarily black neighborhoods, 82% did not receive the life-sustaining services of CPR until medical help could arrive.

The importance of health and wellness has not been a topic our community has many preventative opportunities to engage in and on. Most are concerned with surviving, Professor Robinson sincerely wants to change that story for our communities. In the Fall of 2021, she co-founded The R Care CPR, LLC. The R stands for Rescue, Revive, Renew. The organization's imperative is to become the premier provider to equip and empower people with the necessary skills to save lives and flourish and thrive in our communities, especially in unserved and underserved communities.

The late Grace Lee Boggs said it best:

“We urgently need to bring our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.”

Professor Robinson invites you to join her on the journey to health and wellness for our families and communities, starting with HBCU’s. Watch the space for new and exciting initiatives and services!

Yours in health,

Professor Robinson – "To thrive, we must become the first to respond - to stay alive!"