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2010 Grantee Meeting

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CDC Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

The CDC Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention provides funding to grantees for three primary programs:

• National Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program
• Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across the Nation (WISEWOMAN) Program
• Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry

The Annual Grantee Meeting provides a forum to promote synergy among the programs and enhances skills related to specific program needs.

National Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program

In 1998, Congress provided funding for CDC to initiate a national, state-based heart disease and stroke prevention program with funding for eight states. As of June 30, 2009, CDC funds 41 states and the District of Columbia.

Program Purpose

The purpose of the Program is to implement interventions designed to reduce mortality, morbidity, and related health disparities. This is achieved by enhancing the capacity of State health departments (in collaboration with private and public sector partners) to implement evidenced-based, public health interventions using education, policy, and systems change approaches.

Program Priorities

Current priorities are:

• Control high blood pressure;
• Control high cholesterol;
• Know signs and symptoms, call 911;
• Improve emergency response;
• Improve quality of care (prevent first and second events; control risk factors and the diseases); and
• Eliminate disparities.

Program Activities

State programs are funded to complete the following activities:

• Develop and maintain partnerships;
• Define and monitor the burden of heart disease and stroke;
• Develop, update, and facilitate the implementation of a comprehensive State heart disease and stroke prevention plan;
• Develop, plan, and implement population-based policy and systems change intervention strategies that address the program priority areas in various settings (e.g., worksite, health, community); and
• Enhance program evaluation.

Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across the Nation (WISEWOMAN) Program

In 1993, Congress authorized CDC to establish the WISEWOMAN program to extend preventive health services provided to women who participate in the CDC-funded National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP). CDC currently funds 19 States and two Tribal Organizations to implement the WISEWOMAN program.

Program Mission

The mission of the WISEWOMAN Program is to provide low-income, under- or uninsured 40- to 64-year-old women with the knowledge, skills, and opportunities to improve diet, physical activity, and other lifestyle behaviors to prevent, delay and control cardiovascular and other chronic diseases.

Program Services

The Program provides women with access to additional preventive health services by screening for heart disease and stroke risk factors and using clinical care guidelines to refer women to quality care. The Program also provides lifestyle interventions that are tailored to each woman's heart disease and stroke risk factor screening results and her readiness to make lifestyle behavior changes.

The Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry

In 2001, Congress directed CDC to implement the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry. Today, Coverdell funds several states to implement state-centric, hospital-based Coverdell stroke registries to measure, track, and improve the quality of acute stroke care.

Program Purpose

The purpose of the registries is to:

• Develop and implement systems for collecting data on acute stroke care provided to patients;
• Analyze the collected data; and
• Use the results to guide quality improvement interventions.

Program Mission

The mission of the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry is to:

• Measure, track, and improve the quality of care for acute stroke patients;
• Decrease the rate of premature death and disability from acute stroke through secondary prevention;
• Increase public awareness of stroke treatment and prevention; and
• Reduce disparities in acute stroke care by providing underserved populations with better access to such care.