How Alliance Membership Benefits Your Hospital 

By joining the WomenHeart National Hospital Alliance, your hospital: 

• Positions itself as a leader in women’s heart health

•  Supports the interests of your female clinicians

• Establishes a peer-led WomenHeart Support Network for women with heart disease which is led by a woman heart disease survivor trained at the WomenHeart Science & Leadership Symposium at Mayo Clinic, providing post-discharge support and secondary prevention for your female heart patients

By having a WomenHeart Support Network, your hospital will: 

• Have an effective communications channel to provide post-discharge counseling to help ensure patient compliance and adherence to post-discharge care

• Increase patient satisfaction

• Demonstrate community benefit

And, your hospital... 

• Will be highlighted as an Alliance member in WomenHeart publications and with a link to your hospital on www.womenheart.org, averaging 50,000 unique visitors monthly  

• Gets to profile your women’s cardiovascular services on www.womenheart.org 

• Has its Support Network meetings listed on the WomenHeart calendar of events, the most viewed section of www.womenheart.org

• May invite hospital staff to participate in WomenHeart educational programs, such as webinars and presentations

• Stays current with WomenHeart through the monthly Heart to Heart e-newsletter to 50,000 subscribers, and through special e-blast announcements

• Has access to WomenHeart materials, signage and programs to promote the partnership, including the national Make the Call. Don’t Miss a Beat. and WomenHeart’s White Blouse public service announcement campaigns

• Invited to join high level colleagues in health care, public policy and industry for WomenHeart’s premier events of the year -- the Annual Business Meeting in Washington, DC; Scientific Advisory Council meetings; and, the annual Wenger Awards Gala honoring those individuals and organizations making extraordinary contributions to women’s heart health. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius joined WomenHeart in 2011 to accept her Wenger Award for Excellence in Public Service. 

• Receives support and technical assistance from WomenHeart to develop a one-day patient education symposium on women’s heart health