Heart Disease Prevention

Meet the Southcoast team that will take care of you

Students at Durfee High School in Fall River learn about the effects of cholesterol on their heart and health through the Southcoast Cardiac Prevention Program.

Southcoast's Cardiac Prevention Program helps members of the community lower their risk for heart disease.

The program provides individualized screening for risk factors, which includes a questionnaire and cholesterol screening. Both the initial screening and follow-up are conducted by a dedicated team that includes a nurse, a dietitian and a pharmacist.

More than 3,700 South Coast residents are already part of this program.

The program's prevention efforts focus on promoting education, lifestyle changes and risk factor modification. These efforts are coordinated in a number of different ways — working with the Southcoast Health Van, local churches, businesses and other organizations and outreach efforts with local schools.

Efforts are made to target specific underserved and underinsured areas in the communities served by Southcoast.

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