{"id":200986,"date":"2023-07-06T15:38:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T19:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=200986"},"modified":"2023-07-06T15:38:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T19:38:35","slug":"uconn-health-receives-50000-million-hearts-health-equity-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/07\/uconn-health-receives-50000-million-hearts-health-equity-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Health Receives $50,000 Million Hearts Health Equity Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year, thousands of maternal women and their babies get sick from dangerous health conditions related to life-threatening high blood pressure disorders such as preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, HELLP syndrome, and eclampsia.<\/p>\n

These serious conditions only occur during pregnancy and the postpartum period and are characterized by a rapid rise in blood pressure that can lead to seizures, stroke, multiple organ failure, and even death of the mother and\/or baby. For women diagnosed with these conditions, it is critical that they monitor their blood pressure at home and report a rise in blood pressure to their maternal provider.<\/p>\n

Several insurance companies do not cover the purchase of blood pressure cuffs for maternal women, causing a barrier to home-based monitoring for those who may not be able to afford an expensive automated blood pressure cuff.<\/p>\n

Million Hearts<\/a>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0is a national initiative co-led by the\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The Million Hearts Health Equity Grant<\/a>, has awarded UConn Health<\/a> $50,000 which enabled us to purchase 1,000 automated Blood Pressure Cuff Kits™ to provide to our at-risk or high risk maternal patients. Our OB\/GYN, Maternal Fetal Medicine, and Family Medicine practices are able to provide the Cuff Kit™ to these women, in real-time, allowing them to have this important tool to monitor their blood pressure at home and report any changes to their clinician.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Cuff Kit™ includes a validated automated blood pressure cuff as well as bilingual educational materials on high blood pressure in pregnant and post-partum women and a blood pressure log to track her blood pressure readings.<\/p>\n

UConn Health was chosen as one of six to receive this grant out of 107 grant applicants allowing us to better serve our patients.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to be able to remove a barrier to accessing a home blood pressure Cuff Kit™ for at-risk and high-risk maternal patients at UConn Health,\u201d says Wendy Martinson, Ambulatory Quality Manager at UConn Health. \u201cThis is a critical tool in helping to manage their blood pressure and provide better outcomes for our patients and their babies.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on the Blood Pressure Cuff Kits, email Wendy Martinson at wemartinson@uchc.edu<\/a> or call 860-679-2302.<\/p>\n

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The Million Hearts Health Equity Grant, has awarded UConn Health $50,000 which enabled us to purchase 1,000 automated Blood Pressure Cuff Kits™ to provide to our at-risk or high-risk maternal patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":200990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,2295],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2209],"class_list":["post-200986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-womens-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 18:47:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200994,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200986\/revisions\/200994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/200990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200986"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=200986"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=200986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}