A First-of-its-Kind Effort Fought Heart Disease and Stroke Among Women in Nashville
About CCHI Nashville
CCHI Nashville was a first-of-its-kind effort to harness the diversity and energy of the Nashville community to make a broad impact on heart disease and stroke in its women.
Led by the Women’s Heart Alliance, the Cities and Communities with Heart Initiative (CCHI) Nashville aimed to stop women in Nashville from needlessly suffering and dying from cardiovascular disease.
In 2017, CCHI Nashville rolled out five program components:
- Caring for the Caregiver, a program to improve cardiovascular health and reduce CVD risk factors among nurses in Nashville’s hospitals and health systems;
- A clinical study on pregnancy complications and their link to CVD risk factors and CVD;
- A workforce health initiative through the Office of the Mayor to improve the heart health of female municipal workers;
- A screening and prevention effort in collaboration with Tennessee State University to reduce CVD and its risk factors in younger women; and
- A community initiative centered around one or more health centers and reaching African American, and/or immigrant refugee women.
CCHI Nashville was led by a six-member community steering committee that included WHA, the Office of Mayor Megan Barry, Metro Public Health Department Nashville, Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, NashvilleHealth and Saint Thomas Ascension Health.