Toolkits

Find resources, tips, guidance, and more in these toolkits designed for community health workers, pharmacists, employers, health professionals, and program leaders.

CDC’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP) developed toolkits for state health departments, community health workers (CHWs), pharmacists, health care professionals, and employers. The toolkits include policy guidelines, training and educational resources, and successful strategies for heart disease and stroke prevention.

Hypertension Management Program (HMP) Toolkit
The Hypertension Management Program (HMP) toolkit is an online interactive training for a team-based, patient-centered, integrated care model to improve the quality of patient care and decrease the number of patients with uncontrolled hypertension.

Cardiac Rehabilitation Change Package (CRCP)
The Million Hearts^® CRCP is a quality improvement tool. It can help teams from hospitals and cardiac rehabilitation programs put systems and strategies in place that target improved care for eligible patients. The CRCP presents a listing of process improvements and includes change concepts, change ideas, tools, and resources.

Pharmacy Resources
Pharmacists can use these resources and tools to help improve patient care. Public health professionals can learn about effective strategies to partner with pharmacists.

Nurse Practitioner (NP) Resources
NPs, state law makers, and policy analysts can use these resources and tools to provide improved patient care. Resources include summaries and case studies of some of the benefits and challenges that NPs experience.

Collaborative Practice Agreements (CPA) Toolkit

• Advancing Team-Based Care Through Collaborative Practice Agreements [PDF – 4 MB]
  This resource is designed to advance team-based care by empowering community pharmacists and prescribers to develop formalized relationships through collaborative practice agreements.
• Increasing the Use of Collaborative Practice Agreements Between Prescribers and Pharmacists: A Brief for Decision Makers, Public Health Practitioners, and Prescribers [PDF – 2 MB]
  This brief describes how collaborative practice agreements can increase patient access to health care by empowering pharmacists to practice as an extension of physicians and other prescribers to help patients manage or prevent chronic diseases. It provides a summary of the information contained in the Advancing Team-Based Care Through Collaborative Practice Agreements.

Sodium Reduction Toolkits

• Sodium Reduction in Communities Program: Outcome Evaluation Toolkit [PDF – 1 MB] This evaluation toolkit provides guidance and tools for anyone evaluating sodium reduction activities.
• Partnering with Food Service to Reduce Sodium: A Toolkit for Public Health Practitioners [PDF-7.8M] CDC, the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI), and Health Resources in Action (HRiA) developed this toolkit for public health practitioners.