Partner Opportunities

• Action: Make healthy food and beverage choices available to patients, visitors, and staff.
• View the resource: Health and Sustainability Guidelines for Federal Concessions and Vending Operations
• Read a success story: Using Contracts to Reduce Sodium in Government Food Environments: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health [PDF-219K]
• Action: Implement comprehensive smoke-free policies.
• View the resource: The Community Guide: Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure: Smoke-Free Policies
• Read a success story: Communities Putting Prevention to Work: Tobacco Use Prevention and Control
• Action: Automatically refer eligible patients to cardiac rehab.
• View the resource: Increasing Cardiac Rehabilitation Participation From 20% to 70%: A Road Map From the Million Hearts Cardiac Rehabilitation Collaborative [PDF-595K]

• Action: Make healthy food and beverage choices available to all employees.
• View the resource: Health and Sustainability Guidelines for Federal Concessions and Vending Operations
• Read a success story: Using Contracts to Reduce Sodium in Government Food Environments: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health [PDF-219K]
• Action: Develop and support worksite policies to encourage employees’ use of tobacco cessation services.
• View the resource: The Community Guide Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure: Quitline Interventions
• Read a success story: North Carolina Division of Public Health, Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch: Expanding Comprehensive Coverage for Tobacco Cessation [PDF-1.4M]
• Action: Provide environmental supports for recreation or physical activity (e.g., onsite exercise facilities, walking trails, bicycle racks).
• View the resource: CDC Worksite Health Scorecard: An Assessment Tool for Employers to Prevent Heart Disease, Stroke, & Related Health Conditions [PDF-3.5M]
• Read a success story: Bike Share Program Offers California State Employees Another Way to Be Active [PDF-505K]

Learn more about actions employers can take.

• Action: Use standardized treatment protocols for hypertension treatment, tobacco cessation, and cholesterol management.
• View the resource: Million Hearts^® Protocols
• Read a success story: 2014 Hypertension Control Champions: Large Health Systems [PDF-183K]
• Action: Implement self-measured blood pressure monitoring (SMBP) interventions with clinical support.
• View the resource: Million Hearts^® Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring: Action Steps for Clinicians [PDF-946K]
• Read success stories: 2013 Hypertension Control Champion: Nilesh V. Patel, MD [PDF-262K]; 2015 Hypertension Control Champion: Reliant Medical Group [PDF-102K]
• Action: Improve performance on Million Hearts^® clinical quality measures on aspirin use, blood pressure control, cholesterol management, smoking cessation, and cardiac rehab.
• View the resource: Million Hearts^® Clinical Quality Measures Dashboard
• Read a success story: ASTHO Million Hearts: Making a Difference in Hypertension Control in Minnesota [PDF-1.5M]
• Action: Leverage electronic health record (EHR) systems to excel in the ABCS.
• View the resource: Million Hearts^® EHR Optimization Guides
• Read a success story: Michigan Center for Effective IT Adoption

Learn more about actions clinicians can take.