NACHC Million Hearts® Initiative

NACHC and the CDC are partnered together to reduce heart attacks and strokes to help achieve the Million Hearts^® 2022 goals. The current focus has been to implement strategies to reduce undiagnosed hypertension, improve use of statins in high-risk patients, improve hypertension management and control for African Americans, and expanding use of self-measured blood pressure monitoring. NACHC is implementing and scaling strategies for health centers to improve performance in the following areas:

Statin Therapy for High-Risk Patients

Improving Blood Pressure Control of African Americans

Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring (SMBP)

Other Resources

Statin Therapy for High-Risk Patients

The project focuses on improving use of statin therapy for patients at high risk of heart attack and stroke through enhanced care processes to prescribe statins to as many high-risk patients as possible.

Resources:

Cholesterol Provider Training Package
- Statin Adherence (downloadable tool to use)
- Statin Associated Side Effects (downloadable tool to use)
- Statin Therapy for High-Risk Group Summary Video
- Statin Guideline Snapshot (downloadable tool to use)
- Statin Inertia Chart (downloadable tool to use)
- Q&A: Common Patient Questions about Statins
Improving Use of Statin Therapy Roadmap: Quality Improvement Tool
How Do Statins Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes: Patient Education Animation | English | Spanish
How Do Statins Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes: Patient Education Infographic | English | Spanish
Statins and Lifestyle: Patient Education Infographic | English | Spanish

Improving Blood Pressure Control for African Americans

This project focuses on implementing evidence-based and promising practices to improve blood pressure control for African Americans to intensify guideline-recommended therapy, increase frequency of patient touch points, improve medication adherence, and increase patient engagement.

Resources:

Improving Blood Pressure Control for African Americans Roadmap: Quality Improvement Tool

Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring (SMBP)

WATCH: D’Angelo’s Story

The focus of this work is to support the CDC’s SMBP National Strategy, which aims to accelerate the adoption of SMBP as a national standard of care. This is done by addressing key challenges in the areas of community engagement, reimbursement, HIT, hosting a quarterly SMBP virtual forum, and supporting an online community of peers in the SMBP field.

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