GO-TO Healthy Choices: Care for Your Health
Care™ for Your Health, a program in our online personal health manager, helps you gain confidence, skills and knowledge. You’ll learn to more effectively manage chronic health conditions while living a full life.

Heart Disease Prevention Case Management Program
If you are motivated to reduce your risk of heart disease, you may be able to join our FREE heart disease prevention case management program.

Aspirin Use to Prevent Heart Attacks and Stroke
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force found that taking aspirin can be an easy and inexpensive way for men to prevent heart attacks and for women to prevent strokes. Talk to your doctor about how taking aspirin can prevent heart attacks and stroke. Below are handouts for more information; and we have created additional information for employers and provider clinics.

• Fact Sheet for Men: Taking Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attacks
• Fact Sheet for Women: Taking Aspirin to Prevent Stroke

Cholesterol Management Tools

• Butter Substitutes
• Fish Oil Capsules
• Niaspan
• Wallet-Sized Care Card

Meriter Interactive Online Education
Tap into this interactive encyclopedia for instant access to information on high cholesterol.

Non-Drug Ways to Promote Health by Lowering Cholesterol
from UW Integrative Medicine, Department of Family Medicine.

UW Health Go Red for Women
UW Health Heart and Vascular Care joins the American Heart Association as an exclusive Madison-area partner in encouraging women to "Go Red" for heart health.

Meriter's Women's HeartCare Clinic
Meriter offers a comprehensive cardiovascular program designed especially for women by women. Find out your risk for heart disease and take steps to prevent it. Develop a plan that's right for you, a plan you can live with, with goals you want to achieve.

Mind-Body Medicine Skills for a Healthy Heart Class
In this 8 week class, led by Meriter Medical Group’s Health Psychologist Gretchen A. Diem, Ph.D., you will learn ways to make lasting, healthy lifestyle changes to reduce risk of further cardiac disease and improve your quality of life.

Heart/Stroke Recognized Physicians
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) and National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recognize the quality of care provided by physicians for persons who have cardiovascular disease or who have had a stroke.

The following Physicians Plus providers have received this recognition:

• Wisconsin Heart – Drs. Bellissimo, Devries, Ende, Evans, Farnham, Hinderaker, Jaya, Lewis, Moses, Stoiber, and Wallhaus