Million Hearts

Heart disease and stroke are the first and fifth leading causes of death in the United States. Every 43 seconds, someone in the United States has a heart attack, many of them fatal. On average, one American dies from stroke every 4 minutes.

Million Hearts® is a national initiative with an ambitious goal to prevention 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services co-lead the initiative on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Specific Million Hearts Tools

• Million Hearts Hypertension Control Change Tool
• Create Your Own Hypertension Treatment Protocol
• Tool - Patient Visit High Blood Pressure Checklist for Health Care Providers
• Tool: Framingham Heart Age Calculator
• Learn How Million Hearts Champions and Partners are Successfully Controlling Hypertension
• http://millionhearts.hhs.gov/partners-progress/innovations.html
• http://millionhearts.hhs.gov/partners-progress/champions/index.html