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Comprehensive Women's Heart Health Care Program
The Office on Women's Health (OWH) within the United States Department of
Health and Human Services (DHHS) is interested in improving, enhancing, and
evaluating outcomes of comprehensive heart health care programs for
high-risk women. To accomplish this goal, OWH has made six new grant
awards to hospitals, clinics, and health care centers with existing women's
heart health care programs. The 2005 awardees are:
- Regents of the University of California, Davis Campus
- Fox Valley Cardiovascular Consultants
- Regents of the University of Minnesota
- Yale University - New Haven Hospital
- The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of NY
- Christ Community Health Services, Inc
Each grantee will use the funds to enhance their existing women's heart
health care program so that it provides a continuum of heart health care
services through the integration of the following five interrelated
components: Education and Awareness, Screening and Risk Assessment,
Diagnostic Testing and Treatment, Lifestyle Modification and Rehabilitation,
and Tracking and Evaluation. These programs will offer comprehensive heart
health care services that are women-centered, culturally competent,
multi-disciplinary, continuous and integrated. Grantees will also target
high-risk women in at least one of the following groups: women aged 60 years
or older, racial and ethnic minority women, and/or women who live in rural
communities.
The goal of these programs is to reduce heart disease mortality and
morbidity among women and to increase the number of high-risk women who
receive quality heart health care services. These programs will be
demonstration projects; as such, they will provide the evidence necessary to
evaluate whether comprehensive women's heart health care programs are
effective in improving heart disease outcomes in high-risk women.
Content last updated March 1, 2006.
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