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Here is a catalog of successful HF programs for providers to know, learn and understand best practices, barriers and facilitators in setting up / running / modifying current HF program. These programs focus on emergency department, shared medical appointments, telemedicine, pharmacy, continued learning, etc.

Key Focus	Program Title	Facility	Contact Person
Start HF Program	Heart Failure Disease Management in the North Florida/South Georgia VHS	Gainesville VA Medical Center Gainesville, FL	Richard Schofield, MD Richard.Schofield@va.gov or schofrs@medicine.ufl.edu Tamarah Jungklaus, ARNP Tamarah.Jungklaus@va.gov
Reinvent HF Program	Reinventing the HF Program at Tucson VA	Southern Arizona VA Health Care System Tucson, AZ	Elizabeth Juneman, MD Elizabeth.Juneman@va.gov Elaine Charteris, NP Elaine.Charteris@va.gov
CHF Guidelines	Get With the Guidelines: Heart Failure	University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	Gregg Fonarow, MD gfonarow@mednet.ucla.edu Louise Belair Morgan Louise.Belair@heart.org
Multi-Disciplinary Approach	A Comprehensive Heart Failure Management Program: A Collaboration of Primary Care, Specialty Care, Nursing and Pharmacy	Portland VA Medical Center Portland, WA	Greg Larsen, MD Greg.Larsen@va.gov Denise Van Ostaeyen, NP Denise.VanOstaeyen2@va.gov
Team Approach	CHF Team Approach	Washington DC VA Medical Center Washington DC	Peter Carson, MD Peter.Carson@va.gov Jacqueline Gannuscio, MSN, ACNP, RN Jacqueline.Gannuscio@va.gov
Shared Medical Appointment	Heart Failure Shared Medical Appointment: Improving Quality through Interdisciplinary Service Delivery	Louis Stokes Cleveland DVA Medical Center Cleveland, OH	Illeana Piña, MD Ileana.Pina@va.gov Julie Gee, RN Julie.Gee@va.gov Kimberly Schaub, PhD Kimberley.Schaub@va.gov
Emergency Department	The VASDHS Heart Failure Performance Improvement Team Creates a New System	San Diego VA Health Care System San Diego, CA	Alan Maisel, MD Alan.Maisel@va.gov or amaisel@ucsd.edu Nancy Gardetto, RN Gardetto.Nancy@va.gov
Pharmacy	Effectiveness of Controlled-Release Metoprolol versus Carvedilol as Prescribed for Veterans with Heart Failure	Minneapolis VA Medical Center Minneapolis, MN	Thomas Rector, PhD Thomas.Rector@va.gov Inder Anand, MD Inderjit.Anand@va.gov or Anand001@umn.edu
Pharmacy Telehealth	Pharmacist-led CHF clinic for Patients Recently Discharged from CHF Admission	Providence VA Medical Center Providence, RI	Andrea Dooley, PharmD Andrea.Dooley@va.gov Wen-Chih Wu, MD Wen-Chih.Wu@va.gov
Education Telehealth	Heart Failure Class III and IV	James A. Haley Veterans Hospital Tampa, FL	Jeanette McCain, MA, ARNP-C Jeannette.McCain@va.gov