Promote Cardiovascular Health

Health Care

• We work with safety net providers to promote a team-based care approach to chronic disease prevention and management.
• We provide tools and resources to health care providers as well as dentists on proper blood pressure measuring techniques.
• We work with electronic health record vendors to increase safety net provider use of health information technology.
• We encourage health care providers to use electronic health records to identify and address health disparities.

Community

• We provide tools and resources to persons with hypertension to encourage self-measured blood pressure with clinical support.
• We promote education materials that empower people at risk of or who have heart disease to work with their health care team to set and reach hypertension goals.
• We provide resources for community groups to offer hypertension management programs to persons with newly diagnosed or uncontrolled hypertension.
• We support community pharmacists in their efforts of medication adherence, medication reconciliation and referral to chronic disease prevention and management programs.

Worksites

• We provide tools and resources to worksites that chose to implement a blood pressure monitoring station and policy to assist employees with hypertension management.