5.7 million Americans are currently living with heart failure, and 670,000 new cases are diagnosed each year — up significantly from 500,000 cases annually just a few years ago. As our population ages, this epidemic of heart failure will only continue to grow. The cost of providing heart failure care ranks among the leading U.S. health care expenditures. Additionally, the toll of heart failure on life, both in quality and longevity, is sobering.

Now for the good news. The American Heart Association has amassed a wealth of robust heart failure-related resources, newly aligned into a comprehensive offering to help you take the failure out of heart failure. Target: HF draws from the American Heart Association’s vast collection of content-rich resources for patients and healthcare professionals, including educational tools, prevention programs, treatment guidelines, quality initiatives and outcome-based programs.

Among the most important of those resources is Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure, a hospital-based performance improvement tool that helps ensure up-to-date, evidence-based care for heart failure patients. Strategies deployed in Get With The Guidelines-HF have proven successful in lowering 30-day mortality rates and readmissions in heart failure patients, making it central to Target: HF.