FOR CARE TEAMS & COMMUNITY HOSTS
Put the message
into practice.
Know your history. Share it. Leave with a follow-up plan.
A practical starting point for a proposed local campaign. Clinical use requires local review and a named team responsible for follow-up.
Download the campaign kit ↓Give every piece a job.
The poster opens the conversation.
Use it in a clinic waiting area, community space or workplace. The QR code leads to the public Heart Story. Nobody needs to disclose their health history to a host or in public.
The guide goes to the visit.
Offer the pregnancy-to-midlife sheet with a pen. Invite the woman to identify relevant history and bring the sheet to her clinician. Unknown history is a reason to ask for help, not to guess a diagnosis.
The NICU sheet supports maternal care.
Offer it during the NICU stay, not only when the infant goes home. The maternal team confirms timing, contact details and any monitoring plan. Keep the hospital’s own urgent-care instructions with it.
A BRIEF CLINICAL CONVERSATION
Ask. Record. Connect.
- Ask: “Did you have high blood pressure, diabetes, an early birth or a heart problem during pregnancy?” Confirm the history from records when needed.
- Record: Document the relevant complication and its timing in the clinical record; review it alongside current cardiovascular risk factors.
- Connect: If follow-up is indicated, name the next step, the responsible clinician and the date. Confirm access, cost, language and transportation needs.
- Check understanding: “In your own words, what is your next step, and who will you contact?” Give the patient a copy of the agreed plan.
This is an education workflow, not a diagnostic or treatment protocol. A home cuff needs a clinician-defined plan for reviewing readings and responding to concerns.
PROPOSED PILOT MEASURES
Count the care that follows.
| Measure | How a clinical partner would define it |
|---|---|
| History recorded | Participating patients with relevant pregnancy history documented ÷ participating patients assessed. |
| Follow-up completed | Patients completing the clinician-recommended next step by its due date ÷ patients whose indicated follow-up is due. |
| Plan understood | Patients able to explain their next step and care contact after teaching ÷ patients receiving teaching. |
| Equitable access | Review completion and barriers by language, insurance, race/ethnicity and setting, within approved data procedures. |
Agree on baseline, targets, denominators, missing-data handling and a comparison approach before launch. Downloads describe reach; they do not establish clinical benefit. Patient-level tracking belongs in the clinical partner’s approved system, not this campaign website.
Before local launch
Confirm a clinical reviewer, patient input, readable and accessible formats, reviewed translations, local contact information, care capacity and responsibility for follow-up. Start with a small usability review, revise, then evaluate implementation.
HELP SHAPE THE PILOT
Choose a practical role.
Clinical reviewers
Review the patient guide and NICU timing sheet; confirm accuracy, wording, local pathways and responsibility for follow-up.
Patient and language reviewers
Test whether the message and next step are understood. Review the Spanish materials for meaning, clarity and cultural fit.
Pilot and distribution sites
Identify where the materials fit, who will offer them, and how indicated follow-up will be connected to care and measured.
Opening the contact link creates an email you can review and send. No enrollment or endorsement is automatic. Please do not send patient records.
Before a pilot
Walk through the pathway.
Find what needs work.
Use Maya’s fictional story to review the history, visit questions, clinician-owned plan and follow-up status. Then try four short tasks and record what was clear or confusing.
See the fictional example → · Try the feedback exercise → · Download the review worksheet ↓
This review tests understanding and usability. Clinical use still requires an agreed host, care pathway and local review.
Every Chapter. One Heart Story.
Help someone leave
with a useful next step.
For a short community session, show the four life-stage topics and let each person choose privately. Explain that pregnancy history can matter across later stages and that women who have never been pregnant are included.
- Introduce the idea. Periods, pregnancy, menopause and emotional well-being can belong in a heart-health conversation.
- Open the guide. Let each person choose a topic and print the blank visit plan. Do not ask participants to disclose personal histories publicly or submit their completed plan.
- Make the action specific. Invite each person to bring the questions to their own clinician and ask who will arrange the next step and when.
- Learn from the session. Ask whether participants can explain the next step in their own words. Attendance and downloads are reach measures; they do not demonstrate completed care or health benefit.
Use a qualified clinician for medical questions and reviewed local referral resources for access needs. Use paper or phone support when digital access is difficult. Arrange appropriate language support.