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title: "About Healthy Hearts in the Heartland"
url: https://healthyheartsintheheartland.org/about/
description: "What Healthy Hearts in the Heartland (H3) was, how the coaching model worked and what the research set out to evaluate."
published: 2026-08-10
updated: 2026-08-10
---

# About Healthy Hearts in the Heartland

Published 2026-08-10

[Home](https://healthyheartsintheheartland.org/) / About H3

A research program that worked with small practice clinics in the Midwest to implement and evaluate quality improvement strategies for cardiovascular care.

## How Does It Work?

Small practices received one year of hands-on coaching, tools and strategies to provide point-of-care support for Million Hearts cardiovascular measures — aspirin therapy, blood pressure control, cholesterol management and smoking cessation. Half of the practices also received support to engage in population health management.

## What is the Purpose of This Research?

The research evaluated different implementation strategies and determined the best ways to support small practices with quality improvement work.

## H3 Region

The project region encompassed southeastern Wisconsin, northeastern Illinois (including Chicago), and northern Indiana.

## Where to go next

- Why Practices Participated — the participation account
- Info for Participants — the participant hub
- Lessons Learned — posters and the closing note