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Million Hearts Cardiac Rehabilitation Change Package

A toolkit from Million Hearts, developed with the rehabilitation association AACVPR, for hospital and cardiac rehabilitation teams that want more eligible patients to take part. It lists changes a team can make to its processes, ideas that can be tried, and tools to adapt. The 2023 second edition added ideas such as automatic opt-out referrals and hybrid delivery models. The page advises teams to test each chosen strategy on a small scale before wider use.

Also called CRCP · Cardiac Rehabilitation Change Package

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Overview

Technical summary

A pointer to a web page and PDF guide on the Million Hearts website (second edition, 2023; the first edition appeared in 2018). Its page-level reuse terms were not read, because the HHS web policies page returned HTTP 403 to a script, so this atlas restates facts in its own words and quotes nothing. The page and the guide carry ideas for change and supporting tools; none of them is restated here. This toolkit is a hospital resource and is not evidence that any strategy works.

Resource

Type
Tool
Owner
Not reported
Contents
Ideas for change and supporting tools for hospital and cardiac rehabilitation program teams that want to increase use of cardiac rehabilitation.
Access
Free web page and PDF guide on the Million Hearts website: https://millionhearts.hhs.gov/tools-protocols/action-guides/cardiac-change-package/index.html
License
Reuse terms not read (the HHS web policies page returned HTTP 403). This atlas names and links the resource, states facts in its own words and does not quote it.

Claims and evidence

Context US national heart attack and stroke prevention initiative (Million Hearts)

Recipient
Recipient not specified
Population
The United States population; the initiative also focuses on groups experiencing inequities.
Care setting
National public health initiative.
Geography
United States
Life stage
Not stated in the source
Gestational age
Not reported
Postnatal age
Not reported
Follow-up
The current vision runs from January 2022 to December 2026.
Eligibility: inclusion criteria not stated; exclusion criteria not stated
Included
None stated
Excluded
None stated

  • Description Guidance Certainty not assessed

    The Million Hearts page on its Cardiac Rehabilitation Change Package says the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) was a partner in developing the package, and that it lists process improvements that cardiac rehabilitation teams can make to raise the use of cardiac rehabilitation.

    Applies to Recipient not specified
    • The United States population; the initiative also focuses on groups experiencing inequities.
    • National public health initiative.
    • United States
    • Not stated in the source
    • Gestational age Not reported
    • Postnatal age Not reported
    Follow-up The current vision runs from January 2022 to December 2026.
    Certainty method
    Not assessed
    Limitations
    This is the initiative's description of its own toolkit on a CDC-managed web page. It reports no results and is not evidence that any listed change works. The page's reuse terms were not read, so the page is cite-only and no wording from it is used here.
    Last checked
    2026-10-15
    Next evidence check due
    Not scheduled
    Sources and citations (1)

    1. Supports Cardiac Rehabilitation Change Package (Second Edition) (Million Hearts)

      Webpage · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Million Hearts) · Edition Page fetched 2026-10-15. The page carries the line Last Reviewed: February 21, 2024. It describes the second edition, published in 2023.

      Locator
      What Is the CRCP, para 1 (partnership)
      How it applies
      The partnership and the purpose of the package.
      Retrieved
      Source effective date
      Not reported
      Source state
      Current
      Snapshot hash
      501244e34fd804d9c585c06f2d6b689e9eae3e7f22c649ed5d3ab17f52ba6597
      Reuse basis
      millionhearts.hhs.gov is managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but the HHS web policies page returned HTTP 403 to a script (fetched as cl-hhs-web-policies.html, not worked around), so the page-level reuse terms were not read and are unverified. Only the hash of the page is kept. Public text is cite_only until the integration owner confirms the terms.

Record details

Record id
cardio:million-hearts-cardiac-rehab-change-package
Content hash
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