
To assist in implementing CPA’s in Arizona, the ADHS Bureau of Tobacco & Chronic Disease, through its Heart Disease and Stroke Program, was selected along with state health departments from five other states by the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors to participate in a CDC-sponsored learning program designed to accelerate team-based care using the pharmacists’ patient care process to manage high blood pressure. Along with pharmacy partners and primary care physicians, and in partnership with the University of Arizona School of Pharmacy, the Arizona Pharmacy Association, and CDC, ADHS staff will be developing and disseminating resource guides for expanding practice agreements across Arizona aimed at improving the management of high blood pressure. This is another critical milestone in achieving our goals in the Arizona Health Improvement Plan.