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What is "Start with Your Heart"? |
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"Start with Your Heart" is the tag line of the Public Awareness Campaign of the Justus-Warren Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Task Force. This campaign focuses on the state's most at-risk counties. The multi-strategy campaign has included billboard advertising, bus wraps, direct mail/newsletter, radio and TV spots, and this web site. |
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What is the HDSP Program? |
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Through funding from a CDC grant, North Carolina has established a statewide population-based program to improve cardiovascular health through policy, environmental and systems change. Four counties were selected through a competitive process to provide leadership in their regions toward these efforts. |
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What does it mean to be a Lead County in the NC HDSP Program? |
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The HDSP lead counties are Cabarrus, Henderson, Pitt, and Hertford. These four counties were selected through a competitive process based on readiness to lead their region. In the early years of the program, the lead county Coordinators were asked to focus on developing policy and environmental strategies to promote physical activity and nutrition opportunities in their county. They are currently focusing on new priorities related to high blood pressure, cholesterol and secondary prevention of heart disease and stroke. The lead county provides training and technical assistance to other counties in their region for similar policy, environmental and systems-level approaches. |
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Who are the lead county contacts for HDSP |
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Please see our HDSP Counties map and contact list. |
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What is the Tri-State Stroke Network? |
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The Tri-State Stroke Network was an outcome of the 1999 Tri-State Stroke Summit, sponsored by the Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Task Force and the State Health Directors of NC, SC and GA. At the Summit, there was a call to action to address the extraordinarily high stroke death rates in the easternmost counties of the three states. This area has been described as the "buckle" of the stroke belt. CDC subsequently agreed to fund a 27-member Network, made up of 9 distinguished members from each of the three states. At its first meeting on February 26, 2001, the Network elected Dr. David Goff of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem as Chair, and Dr. Dan Lackland of the Medical University of South Carolina as Vice Chair and Chair-Elect.
The current chairman is Dr. Andrew Asimos of Cardinal Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Please see the Tri-State Stroke Network website for more details. |
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What is the NC Collaborative Acute Stroke Registry? |
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In July 2004, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) awarded funding to North Carolina, Georgia, Illinois and Massachusetts to lead the country in implementing stroke registries based on the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry. The initiative was named in honor of U.S. Senator Paul Coverdell of Georgia who died of a stroke in July 2000.
North Carolina Collaborative Acute Stroke Registry – 2005: Currently, 25 hospitals participate in the NC registry. Data are collected prospectively, concurrent with care. This process will improve the quality of stoke care by continually promoting compliance with best practice guidelines. In addition, the registry’s performance measures include the Standard Stroke Measure Set utilized by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) for awarding the Certification of Distinction for Primary Stroke Centers. The registry’s focus will be on quality improvement for the care of acute stroke patients across the state. |
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