Heart Health & Stroke - Programs - Evaluation Programs

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.