This medically tailored meal (MTM) delivery program will provide easy access to healthy meals, tailored to the medical needs of chronically ill older adults living at home, with a specific focus on older adults with heart disease. Spectrum Health Foundation will work...
This project will address health inequities for older adults in Michigan rural and urban communities associated with limited access to quality health care, hypertension treatment, healthy food access, and physical activity. This project builds on the American Heart...
Live Well for Your Heart will establish referral partnerships between dental clinics, primary care practitioners, and public health practitioners to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in adults ages 30 to 74 with no history of cardiovascular events in rural...
This initiative will address the negative health effects of poor blood pressure measurement, diagnosis, and treatment at 10 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), and improve hypertension control rates within the FQHC practices by implementing an enhanced version...
The American Heart Association will partner with the Faith Community Nursing and Health Ministry Network of Henry Ford Health System to expand the EmPowered to Serve program, which focuses on improving heart health and adverse health outcomes and lowering or managing...
PACE Southeast Michigan will create a remote care management platform to reduce the number of avoidable and preventable emergency department visits and hospitalizations among PACE Southeast Michigan participants. Case managers will monitor alerts for any warning signs...
Through this grant, the American Heart Association (AHA) will recruit and train volunteers from Second Ebenezer Church’s congregation in Detroit to provide evidence based AHA education and support module, “Check It, Change It”, to create a personal understanding of...
