Project Abstract
Missouri’s CDC-RFA-DP-23-0004
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (MoDHSS) Cardiovascular Disease Program is located at 920 Wildwood Drive, Jefferson City, Missouri, 65109. Attached is the Application in response to the notice of funding opportunity: The National Cardiovascular Health Program, CDC-RFA-DP-23-0004.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (MoDHSS), Cardiovascular Disease Program works in communities focused on high prevalence of CVD, to educate, inform, and present opportunities to decrease the risk factors of hypertension and high cholesterol. Collaborating with partners and evidence-based program suppliers within communities of need. Through effective partnerships working with in the Community Health Worker (CHW) infrastructure, we are increasing program delivery sites, increasing program enrollments, and coordinating statewide referral networks for both programs and social determinants of health (SDOH) support services. As the state public health agency, MoDHSS has the capacity to work on these important initiatives at a statewide level, while also concentrating resources in communities where they are needed most.
This new funding award will allow the Missouri Cardiovascular Disease Program to positively affect priority populations across the state through the strategies and activities described in the work plan. Long-term outcomes from this work include:
1. Improve blood pressure control among populations with partner health care and community settings.
2. Reduced disparities in hypertension control among populations within partner health care and community settings.
3. Increase utilization of social services and support among populations at highest risk of CVD, with a focus on hypertension and high cholesterol.
To achieve these long-term outcomes, the Missouri Cardiovascular Disease Program will focus on the following within the scope of the grant.
1. Increase the number of organizations implementing evidence-based community behavioral change programs
2. Increase the adaptation/tailoring of effective programs for priority populations
3. Increase the number of patients screened and referred to community resources (i.e., hypertension screening, cholesterol screenings, and social determinants of health screening)
4. Increase SDOH screenings in clinical settings
5. Increase participation in evidence-based community behavioral change programs
6. Increase multi-directional communication between clinical and community resources.
7. Establish a robust Learning Collaborative within the state that supports the issues
The Missouri Cardiovascular Disease Program has a long-standing recipient of federal, state and private foundations funds that we have effectively used to better prevent and manage chronic conditions across the state.
We look forward to continuation of this work under this new funding opportunity.