Clinical Resources for Hypertension Control
American Heart Month 2021
As a health care professional or clinician, you are very aware of the dangers of hypertension. It can increase a person’s risk for heart disease and stroke and negatively affect other health outcomes.
Who Should Use This Toolkit?
This toolkit is designed for health care professionals and clinicians to help support their patients’ hypertension control.
These resources can help your clinical team implement protocols, use data to improve health outcomes, and be inspired by other practices’ success stories.
How Do I Use This Toolkit?
- Identify patients with hypertension.
- Incorporate lessons learned from success stories.
- Share messages and graphics with your care teams to help patients control their hypertension.
- Use these tools in tandem with the actions recommended in The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Control Hypertension.
Clinical Tools and Resources
Explore various types of tools, guides, and success stories that can help you support your health care team and patients in hypertension control.
Watch our Facebook virtual event to learn from our 2020 Hypertension Control Champions about their successes.
- Pharmacy: Collaborative Practice Agreements to Enable Collaborative Drug Therapy Management
Download and share the strategies presented in this Best Practices Guide that focus on helping health care professionals and pharmacists coordinate drug therapy management. - Improving Medication Adherence Among Patients with Hypertensionexternal icon
Use this web content to help you and your team learn about and overcome medication adherence barriers. - Reducing Out-of-Pocket Costs for Medications
Download and share the strategies presented in this Best Practices Guide that focus on reducing medication costs for patients with hypertension and hyperlipidemia. - Community Pharmacists and Medication Therapy Management
Download and share the strategies presented in this Best Practices Guide that focus on how to implement medication therapy management, a group of services meant to ensure the best patient outcomes. - Success Story: Two Coordinated Health Care Teams Improve Medication Adherenceexternal icon
Read this success story about how health care systems in Orlando and San Diego became Hypertension Control Champions. - Success Story: Large Health System Implements Medication Adherence Practicesexternal icon
Watch a video about how Kaiser Permanente in Denver became a Hypertension Control Champion.
- Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Change Package, Second Editionexternal icon
Implement this list of process improvements as your team seeks optimal hypertension control among your patient population. - Integrating Community Health Workers on Clinical Care Teams and in the Community
Download and share the strategies presented in this Best Practices Guide that focus on how to incorporate the important work that community health workers do to improve community health. - Implementing Clinical Decision Support Systems
Download and share the strategies presented in this Best Practices Guide that focus on how to use clinical decision support systems in cardiovascular prevention. - Team-Based Care: Promoting Team-Based Care to Improve High Blood Pressure Control
Download and share the strategies presented in this Best Practices Guide that focus on how to involve a multidisciplinary team working in collaboration to improve patient outcomes. - Success Story: Using Practice Facilitation to Improve Care Deliveryexternal icon
Read this success story about how an initiative made the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene a Hypertension Control Champion. - Success Story: Leveraging Information Technology to Empower Patientsexternal icon
Read this success story about how Reliant Medical Group became a Hypertension Control Champion.
- Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoringexternal icon
Explore tools and action guides on this webpage to help you implement self-measured blood pressure (SMBP) monitoring in your clinic and engage patients in monitoring their own blood pressure. - Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring with Clinical Support
Download and share the strategies presented in this Best Practices Guide that focus on the importance of an individual’s role in managing chronic disease. - Self-Management Support and Education
Download and share the strategies presented in this Best Practices Guide that focus on the importance of patients using SMBP. - Success Story: Wisconsin Team Leverages SMBP Monitoring to Improve Outcomesexternal icon
Read this success story about how ThedaCare health care system became a Hypertension Control Champion. - Success Story: Using Home Blood Pressure Monitoring for Hypertension Control Successexternal icon
Read this success story about how Hunterdon Cardiovascular Associates became a Hypertension Control Champion.
- Eat Smart, Move More! pdf icon[PDF – 847 KB]
Use this fillable calendar to help your patients reach their healthy eating and physical activity goals one day at a time. - Recipes for a Heart-Healthy Lifestyleexternal icon
Share these affordable, nutritious recipes with your patients to encourage healthy eating.
- Undiagnosed Hypertensionexternal icon
Learn how to find patients “hiding in plain sight” with undiagnosed hypertension with this video, tools, and communications kit.
Spread the Word
Share the following social media messages with your followers.
Feeling the pressure? CDC can help. Take charge of #hypertension control with your patients using these toolkits. cdc.gov/heartmonth #HeartMonth
#Hypertension is common; hypertension control is not. CDC can help! Check out these #HeartMonth toolkits to empower patients on their journey to control and to better heart health. cdc.gov/heartmonth
#Hypertension control is within reach. With your support, self-measured blood pressure (SMBP) monitoring can help patients control hypertension. Use these evidence-based tools from Million Hearts [tag] to learn how to implement SMBP in your practice. https://bit.ly/34XsYclexternal icon #HeartMonth
Only about 1 in 4 adults with #hypertension have their condition under control. The Million Hearts [tag] Hypertension Control Change Package can help improve patient #BloodPressure control with practice- and evidence-based resources. https://bit.ly/2Net7xYexternal icon #HeartMonth
When it comes to talking to your patients about their #HeartHealth, remember the ABCS: Aspirin, Blood pressure control, Cholesterol management, Smoking cessation. Start the conversation about lowering risk for #HeartDisease. https://bit.ly/37XbNJBexternal icon #HeartMonth
Feeling the pressure? @CDCHeart_Stroke can help. Take charge of #hypertension control in your practice with these toolkits. cdc.gov/heartmonth #HeartMonth
#Hypertension is common; hypertension control is not. @CDCHeart_Stroke can help! Check out these #HeartMonth toolkits to empower patients on their journey to control and to better heart health. cdc.gov/heartmonth
#Hypertension control is within reach. With your support, self-measured #BloodPressure (SMBP) monitoring can help patients control hypertension. Use these evidence-based tools from @MillionHeartsUS to implement SMBP in your practice. https://bit.ly/34XsYclexternal icon #HeartMonth
Only about 1 in 4 adults with #hypertension have their condition under control. The @MillionHeartsUS Hypertension Control Change Package can help improve patient #BloodPressure control with practice- and evidence-based resources. https://bit.ly/2Net7xYexternal icon #HeartMonth
When it comes to talking to your patients about their #HeartHealth, remember the ABCS: Aspirin, Blood pressure control, Cholesterol management, Smoking cessation. Start the conversation about lowering risk for #HeartDisease. https://bit.ly/37XbNJBexternal icon #HeartMonth
Review and share our materials for public health professionals to help your communities control hypertension.
Download our hypertension control resources for you to share with individuals and patients in your practice.
