State, Local, and Tribal Program Resources

• Advancing Team-Based Care Through Collaborative Practice Agreements: A Resource and Implementation Guide for Adding Pharmacists to the Care Team [PDF-3.9M]
  This guide is a resource for pharmacists to use in developing and executing collaborative practice agreements to advance team-based care.
• Using the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process to Manage High Blood Pressure: A Resource Guide for Pharmacists [PDF-633K]
  This guide is a call to action for pharmacists to help prevent and manage high blood pressure through team-based care.
• Community-Clinical Linkages for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control: A Practitioner’s Guide [PDF-7M]
  This document guides public health practitioners on key strategies to implement community-clinical linkages that focus on adults.
• Methods and Resources for Engaging Pharmacy Partners [PDF-765K]
  This guide provides public health departments with methods and resources they can use to engage pharmacy partners to enhance team-based care and form community-clinical links that result in improved population health.

• State Program Evaluation Guides
  CDC developed a series of evaluation technical assistance tools to clarify approaches to and methods of evaluation, provide examples, and recommend resources for additional reading.
• Evaluation Spotlights and Strategies: Indicator Spotlights
  Indicator spotlights give funded programs a list of potential indicators to explore for planning and evaluation.
• Program Evaluation Tip Sheets
  These brief tip sheets illustrate a variety of evaluation steps and events.

• Coffee Breaks: Webinar Series
  CDC’s monthly Coffee Break webinar series offers 20-minute mini-trainings focused on knowledge translation tools and evaluation basics for chronic disease programs.
• Five-Part Webcast on Economic Evaluation for States
  This webcast series explains the value of economic evaluation and how to incorporate these methods into public health programs.

• Hypertension: Detect, Connect, Control
  This 2013 CDC Public Health Grand Rounds focused on clinical and public health approaches to better identify, treat, and control high blood pressure.
• Blood Pressure Control: Helping Patients Take Their Medicine
  This 2016 CDC Vital Signs focuses on strategies for health professionals to help their patients take their blood pressure medication as directed.
• Disparities in Antihypertensive Medication Nonadherence Among Medicare Part D Beneficiaries—United States, 2014 (September 2016, CDC, MMWR)
• States Implementing Community Health Worker Strategies [PDF-515K]
  This resource serves as a support tool for implementing CHW strategies in health systems and community-clinical linkages.
• Evaluation Spotlight and Strategies: Field Notes
  Field notes share examples of different approaches used in the field by colleagues working at the state, local, and community levels to prevent and manage chronic disease.
• Science-in-Briefs: Turning Science Into Action
  These briefs provide short synopses of newly published articles, summaries of article findings, and how findings might be applied to cardiovascular health promotion.

CDC/NACDD Fireside Chats
CDC and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) created these webinars to support the Million Hearts® focus of identifying people with undiagnosed hypertension.

• Fireside Chat on Addressing Health Disparities in Hypertension Control
  • Video recording
• Fireside Chat on Team-Based Approaches to Controlling Hypertension
  • Video recording
• Fireside Chat on Identifying Undiagnosed Hypertension
  • Video recording
• The Basics, Part 1 (recording): Overview of health insurance products and plans; managed care organization structure and services.
• The Basics, Part 2 (recording): Insurance: employer, individual, Medicaid, and Medicare; Reimbursement models: fee-for-service and bundled payment; Incentives: pay-for-performance (P4P) and shared savings.
• Setting the Table Proactively, Part 3 (recording): Data: Where it comes from and how it is used; how states are working with payers. Slides [PDF-675K]
• Contracting 101, Part 4 (recording): Network development: individual contracts, accountable care organizations, and independent physician associations; Provisions of a provider contract; Provider and payer relationship building.