Heart Disease and Stroke
Prevention Program is 100% federally funded by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) RFA DP18-1815: Improving the Health of Americans through
Prevention and Management of Diabetes and Heart Disease and Stroke CDC-RFA-DP18-1815
and DP18-1817: Innovative
State and Local Public Health Strategies to Prevent and Manage Diabetes, Heart
Disease, and Stroke. The program receives an average of $845,000 per year from RFA DP18-1815 and an average of
$750,000.00 from RFA DP18-1817 to support:
- Increase
reporting and tracking of clinical data to improve identification,
management, and treatment of patients with high blood pressure and high
blood cholesterol.
- Encourage
providers to follow evidence-based guidelines and policies for team-based
care of patients with high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol.
- Increase
community-clinical links that support systematic referrals,
self-management, and lifestyle change for patients with high blood
pressure and high blood cholesterol.
- Help
patients with high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol manage their
conditions.
- Encourage
more patients with high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol to join
proven lifestyle change programs.
- Monitor
clinical measures shown to improve health care quality and identify
patients with high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol.
- Use
team-based care for patients with high blood pressure and high blood
cholesterol and look for new ways to add nonphysician members to health
care teams.
- Link community
resources and clinical services that support bidirectional referrals,
self-management, and lifestyle change for patients with high blood
pressure or high blood cholesterol or who have had a cardiac event. This
goal can be met by:
- Using
community health workers and patient navigators.
- Increasing
referrals between health care systems and community programs and
resources.
- Expanding
the use of telehealth, including mobile health technology.
- Finding new
ways to increase referrals to and participation in cardiac rehabilitation
programs in traditional and community settings, including home-based
settings.