Mission
To improve the cardiovascular health of the residents of Jacksonville through more effective citywide prevention, detection, and treatment of heart attacks and strokes, and their risk factors.

Vision
To improve the quality of life for all people in Jacksonville by: Reducing the morbidity and premature mortality due to heart diseases and stroke, and by eliminating cardiovascular health disparities.

Click on the chart to view a chart of heart disease death rates by race for Duval County.

Click on the chart below to view a chart of stroke death rates by race for Duval County.

Objectives
Heart Disease
1.  Reduce coronary heart disease deaths.
       Year 2010 Target: 166 deaths per 100,000 population. 
       Year 1999: 224.5 deaths per 100,000 population.
       Year 2000: 212.7 deaths per 100,000 population.

2. Increase the proportion of adults aged 20 years and older who are aware of the early warning signs and symptoms of a heart attack and the importance of accessing rapid emergency care by calling 911. 

3. Increase the proportion of eligible patients with heart attacks who receive artery-opening therapy within an hour of symptom onset. 

4. Increase the proportion of adults aged 20 and older who call 911 and administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) when they witness an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

5. Increase the proportion of eligible persons with witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who receive their first therapeutic electrical shock within 6 minutes after collapse recognition.

6. Reduce hospitalizations of older adults with congestive heart failure as the principal diagnosis.

Objective<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />	Year 2010 Target Per 1,000 Population
6a. Adults aged 65 to 74 years	6.5
6b. Adults aged 75 to 84 years	13.5
6c. Adults aged 85 years and older	26.5

Stroke
7.  Reduce stroke deaths.
       Year 2010 Target: 48 deaths per 100,000 population. 
       Year 1999: 73.9 deaths per 100,000 population.
       Year 2000: 65.5 deaths per 100,000 population.

8.  Increase the proportion of adults who are aware of the early warning signs and symptoms of a stroke.

Blood Pressure
9. Reduce the proportion of adults with high blood pressure.
      Year 2010 Target: 16%.
      Year 2002: 26.1%.

10.  Increase the proportion the proportion of adults with high blood pressure whose blood pressure is under control. 
        Year 2010 Target: 50%. 

11. Increase the proportion of adults with high blood pressure who are taking action (for example, losing weight, increasing physical activity, or reducing sodium intake) to help control their blood pressure.
        Year 2010 Target: 95%. 

12. Increase the proportion of adults who have had their blood pressure measured within the preceding 2 years and can state whether their blood pressure was normal or high.
        Year 2010 Target: 95%.

Cholesterol 
13. Reduce the mean total blood cholesterol levels among adults. 
        Year 2010 Target: 199 mg/dL (mean).

14. Reduce the proportion of adults with high total blood cholesterol levels.
        Year 2010 Target: 17%.

15. Increase the proportion of adults who have had their blood cholesterol checked within the preceding 5 years. 
        Year 2010 Target: 80%.
        Year 2002: 83.1% (Anytime in the past). 

16. Increase the proportion of persons with coronary heart disease who have their LDL-cholesterol level treated to a goal of less than or equal to 100mg/dL

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