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March 2025

District-wide Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention & Innovative Heart Health Learning Collaboratives

  • Stroke Smart: Empowering Leaders to Educate and Protect

This session will help participants broaden their understanding of stroke risk and its longitudinal impact. Dr. Somani will discuss stroke risk education, tips for communication with your team and with patients, and provide more expansive views of outcomes.

Speaker: Jodi Pekkala, MPH, Principal, Health Management Associates

  • AmeriHealth Caritas - Resources to Support Care Planning

In this session, AmeriHealth shares care management programming initiatives to support heart health with members and opportunities for alignment with providers to coordinate care planning activities. Participants are encouraged to think about partnership development to support patient-centered care.

Speaker: Rosalyn Carr Stephens, RN, MSN, Corporate Clinical Director, Population Health Clinical Operations, AmeriHealth Caritas

  • Intended Audience: All Heart Disease and stroke stakeholders including community-based organizations, Health System QI leads, care coordinators, and clinical providers