Promote Cardiovascular Health

Health Care

• We work with health care providers to encourage a team-based care approach for hypertension and cholesterol management by promoting self-measured blood pressure monitoring with clinical support for adults with hypertension.
• We encourage health care providers to use electronic health records to identify and address health disparities.
• We facilitate the multi-disciplinary North Carolina Cardiovascular Health (CVH) Learning Collaborative (LC) with the goals of identifying and addressing barriers to social services and supports -within populations at highest risk of CVD.
• We promote the adoption of evidence-based quality measurement at the provider level to monitor healthcare disparities and implement activities to eliminate those disparities.
• We  provide support in creating and enhancing community and clinical linkages to identify and address SDoH of populations at highest risk of CVD

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 support community pharmacists to promote SMBP (Self-monitored Blood Pressure) for the purpose of managing high blood pressure.