Community Outreach Focuses on Preventive Health Heart disease and stroke are among the leading causes of death and disability in North Carolina. At the Cone Health Heart and Vascular Center, we’re passionate about helping more people prevent these life-threatening conditions. Our experienced providers spearhead a variety of outreach programs to improve the health of our communities. Among them: • Information sessions and public news broadcasts on topics such as cardiovascular risk factors, heart-healthy lifestyles and new treatment breakthroughs for heart and vascular disease • Community health screenings, wellness programs and health fairs • Classes in CPR and smoking cessation Steps in the Right Direction The Heart and Vascular Center created a Heart Smart Trail around the perimeter of Moses Cone Hospital in 2017. The trail’s start sign offers walkers pamphlets, and a companion website, with 10 Habits of Highly Healthy People. Topics include strategies for weight management, nutritional practices and exercise tips. Several physicians and nurses of the Heart and Vascular Center are members of a new partnership bringing business, government, higher education and nonprofit sectors together to address key drivers impacting the health of the region’s population. The new LEAP partnership will support numerous organizations in Guilford County working to create a culture of healthy eating and physical activity. LEAP will identify common public health goals and provide an essential set of shared data to measure progress on goals. We want to help our community prevent heart disease as much as we want to provide exceptional care when it's needed. Jake Hochrein, MD, Medical Chief Cone Health Heart and Vascular Center ‘‘ ‘‘ Heart Smart Trail at Moses Cone Hospital CONE HEALTH | HEART AND VASCULAR CENTER Cone Health team members prepare for a walk on the new Heart Smart Trail at Moses Cone Hospital, from left to right: Michele Jackson, Sheryl Booth, RT-R, MHA; Angie Segarra; Pamela Hicks, RN; Tonya Harrelson; Rich Lundy, MBA, RRT; Cheri Davis; Sara Atkinson, CT, ASCP. The heart and vascular team at Alamance Regional Medical Center provides community health screenings annually. At one forum in 2017, they identified 8 people with diabetes and 18 people at risk of diabetes among 53 people screened. These screenings trigger actions that can lower the risk of heart disease including enrollment in the pre-diabetes programs at the hospital's Lifestyle Center. 40 41 CONE HEALTH | THE NETWORK FOR EXCEPTIONAL CARE