BroMenn offers HeartCaring, a national certification program that helps hospitals improve heart health through physician education and community outreach focused on gender-specific cardiac care. The National Heart, Lung, and BIood Institute (NHLBI) and the Spirit of Women network created HeartCaring in response to a growing body of research that demonstrates an under-diagnosis of heart disease in women, as well as a lack of understanding about gender differences in symptoms of heart disease and peripheral artery disease (PAD). The program is designed to address these gaps.

Not Just a Man's Disease

Heart disease is the leading cause of death of women in this country, but it's only recently that we've begun to understand what we can do to better prevent and treat heart disease in women. HeartCaring brings primary care physicians, obstetricians/gynecologists and patients together to improve women's cardiac care in our community and encourage women to take action to protect themselves from heart disease.

The goals of HeartCaring include:

• Providing gender-specific education about the symptoms of heart disease in women
• Reviewing diagnosis and treatment recommendations for heart disease with HeartCaring providers
• Providing education to assist women make positive healthy choices to prevent heart disease

BroMenn is committed to be a regional and community leader in gender-specific cardiac care and education.  Over time, the education and tools provided through this program will be so effective in teaching women gender-specific, heart healthy habits that fewer and fewer of them will ever have to be treated for heart disease.

Did you know symptoms of a heart attack vary greatly between men and women? View common women's symptoms.