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You should be part of the fight against high blood
pressure!
By participating in Prevent and Control High Blood
Pressure: Mission Possible, you can help respond to the public's hunger
for accurate, credible health care information, while strengthening your
relationships with patients, their families, and your community—and
contributing to the health and well-being of millions of Americans.
Here are suggestions for how you can participate in
Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible. After
you've reviewed them, go to Materials to help you get started.
Managed Care Organizations
- Strengthen Subscriber Relations
- Expand programs and services promoting heart
health - for example, open enrollment seminars, and community health fairs.
Host blood pressure screening and education days for subscribers and their
enrollees.
- Provide subscribers and group plan administrators
with tools and materials to promote high blood pressure prevention and control
through worksite wellness programs and other employee-focused health promotion
efforts.
- Support Providers
Host special high
blood pressure "information exchange" programs for participating primary care
physicians, specialists, registered dietitians, and others who have an interest
in heart health. Keep them abreast of the latest clinical guidelines, research,
and patient education tools through ongoing briefings and specialized mailings.
- Create programs to share best practices for high
blood pressure prevention and control among physicians, tied to rewards for
improved HEDIS scores.
- Reduce Costs
Offer customized incentives
that provide for reduced premiums for subscribers with lower blood
pressures.
- Provide enrollees with heart health information
to support their improved personal health. Use blood pressure screenings to
educate enrollees about what their high blood pressure numbers are and what
they mean.
- Provide tips on high blood pressure prevention in
monthly premium statements, newsletters, and e-mails as a value-added
service.
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possibilities for America's insurance and managed care companies, for more
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Providers
- Downloadable Prevent and Control High Blood
Pressure: Mission Possible materials.
- Use the teachable moment after taking a patient's
blood pressure to tell them their blood pressure numbers and what they mean.
Provide patients with downloadable Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure:
Mission Possible materials that highlight the risks of high blood pressure
and offer tips for prevention and control.
- Talk to patients about the risks of high blood
pressure and how often simple changes in diet and physical activity can help
prevent and control it.
- Provide Help with Control
Help patients
understand the importance of following medication directions and the
consequences of noncompliance. Develop personalized treatment regimens to work
medications into their daily routines and provide easy-to-follow, simple
instructions tailored to individual lifestyles.
- Raise Awareness
Make your office, clinic,
or pharmacy a source of high blood pressure information for patients and
customers, and include heart healthy materials on your Web site.
- Partner with Community Programs
Promote
community resources, such as nutrition classes, to support healthy food choices
and knowledge.
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possibilities for America's health care providers, for more ideas, PDF,
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