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established in 1998 the first series of Cardiovascular Centers of
Excellence in its ongoing efforts to reduce the high incidence of
cardiovascular mortality and morbidity in the Southeastern United
States by enhancing the participation of physicians and health care
providers to address this problem. This initiative has lead to new
opportunities for improved access to healthcare and better management
of cardiovascular disease in the South.
Designated Centers create partnerships with local
health care providers, managed care organizations, public health
officials, consumers, employers and academic centers to develop
programs that focus on treatment, clinical research and prevention
of hypertension-related cardiovascular disease. Centers participating
in this initiative have access to the best health care approaches
to treat high blood pressure and participate in innovative clinical
research in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the heart
and the blood vessels. Medical facilities and participating physicians
are linked through a network of computers to share information,
provide on-line consultation and assist in facilitating access to
any member of the network.
Because each participating Center has been selected
through a National Committee of Experts, patients have the unique
opportunity to access the best that medicine can provide in the
treatment of heart attacks, strokes, and renal disease. In turn,
physicians named as members of COSEHC-designated Cardiovascular
Centers of Excellence are leaders in their respective fields and
actively participate as officers of leading medical and public health
organizations.
The Hypertension and Vascular Disease Center of Wake
Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC is
the headquarters of this medical organization. An internationally
renowned faculty provides participating Centers with medical tools
and treatment protocols that pioneer new drugs and procedures for
the control of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, strokes and
heart attack. Their research and expertise is shared with participating
physicians to give our patients the best that medicine can provide
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