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The Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Unit, which is housed within the MDHHS Cardiovascular Health, Nutrition and Physical Activity Section, is working on establishing stroke systems of care, strengthening community-clinical linkages, enhancing team-based care, and implementing health system intervention activities.
This page includes summaries of some of the initiatives currently being worked on by the Section and its partners.
For more information about the work of the Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Unit, contact Sonia Villarreal at 517-749-7123 (e-mail: VillarrealS2@michigan.gov).
Forging strong partnerships with health systems, community groups, and public health entities to implement heart disease and stroke prevention and management strategies.
Co-leading the Michigan Million Hearts Initiative with the American Heart Association of Michigan to increase the effective use of clinical and community strategies to diagnose and treat people with heart disease and its risk factors.
Improving identification, reporting, management, and treatment of heart disease and stroke risk factors in federally qualified health centers.
Building systems for near real-time surveillance of hypertension and blood cholesterol to intervene and offer resources to improve care coordination.
Establishing emergency room workflows for identification and coordination of care of patients with hypertension through innovative partnership with Wayne State University.
Leading statewide integrated stroke registry system focused on quality improvement across EMS, hospital, and discharge settings.
Increasing awareness of heart disease and stroke risk factors, promoting linkages to evidence-based lifestyle change programs, and working to improve health outcomes in minority populations through partnerships with community organizations.
Addressing health disparities through interventions for populations disproportionately affected by cardiovascular risk factors and outcomes, including minorities and rural residents.
Million Hearts® 2022 is a national initiative co-led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes in five years. The initiative focuses partner actions on a small set of priorities selected for their impact on heart disease, stroke, and related conditions.
Michigan Million Hearts stakeholders aim to reduce and prevent heart attacks and strokes among Michigan adults through promotion of the use of team-based care, health information technology and the utilization of community health workers.
► Learn more about Michigan Million Hearts.
MDHHS works collaboratively with internal and external partners, such as health care systems, providers, businesses, policy makers, community-based organizations, and key stakeholders to support and build on actions taken to prevent and manage diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and associated conditions, such as stroke and prediabetes.
CDC-1815 (Improving the Health of Americans Through Prevention and Management of Diabetes and Heart Disease and Stroke) through:
CDC-1817 (Innovative State and Local Public Health Strategies to Prevent and Manage Diabetes and Heart Disease Stroke) through:
The Michigan Stroke Program works to establish a data-driven, linked stroke data system that will be utilized to guide and inform quality improvement efforts throughout stroke systems of care in Michigan in order to prevent strokes and resulting disabilities. Michigan Stroke Program staff and partners concentrate their efforts in five areas:
Data and surveillance reports about heart disease, stroke, and associated risk factors can be found on the Data & Statistics page on this website.
Educational materials produced by the MDHHS Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Unit are provided free of charge to Michigan residents in quantities up to 100. (Shipping included.)
The available resources include information about sodium intake, controlling and tracking high blood pressure, and following the DASH Eating Plan with recommended daily calorie needs and daily activity levels.
After completing this interactive, Microsoft PowerPoint-based learning module, you will be able to:
► Open the Hypertension learning module
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After completing this interactive, Microsoft PowerPoint-based learning module, you will be able to:
► Open the Cholesterol learning module
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Attention clinical partners and health care professional organizations: In an effort to improve control of hypertension, reduce associated comorbidities, and decrease costs associated with health care resource utilization, the MDHHS Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Unit promotes the use of self-measured blood pressure monitoring (SMBP). SMBP is the regular measurement of blood pressure by the patient outside the clinical setting, usually in the home. SMBP tied with clinical support has been shown to improve blood pressure in patients with hypertension.
To facilitate patient access to home blood pressure cuffs and understanding of cuff coverage benefits, the Unit has created a Medicaid home blood pressure cuff coverage grid.
The grid can be used by health care providers to check inclusion criteria, preauthorization requirements, and special instructions specific to each managed care plan prior to prescribing blood pressure cuffs to patients with hypertension for blood pressure self-monitoring.
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
American Heart Association (AHA) / American Stroke Association (ASA)
American Medical Association (AMA)
State Alliance of Michigan YMCAs (Michigan YMCA )
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