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Learn steps you can take to lower your risk for health problems from high blood pressure (also called hypertension), such as heart disease and stroke.

Measure Your Blood Pressure on a Regular Basis
Measuring your blood pressure is an important step toward keeping a healthy blood pressure. Because high blood pressure and elevated high blood pressure often have no symptoms, checking your blood pressure is the only way to know for sure whether it is too high.

If you learn that you have high blood pressure, you should take steps to control your blood pressure to lower your risk for heart disease and stroke.

Manage Diabetes
Most people with diabetes—about 6 out of 10—also have high blood pressure.1 If your health care professional thinks you have symptoms of diabetes, he or she may recommend that you get tested.

If you have diabetes, monitor your blood glucose (also called blood sugar) levels carefully and talk with your health care team about treatment options. Your doctor or health care professional may recommend certain lifestyle changes to help keep your blood glucose levels under good control. Those actions will also help reduce your risk for high blood pressure.

Take Your Medicine
If you take medicine to treat high blood pressure or other health conditions, follow your doctor’s or health care professional’s instructions carefully. Always ask questions if you do not understand something, and never stop taking your medicine without talking to your doctor or pharmacist first. Stopping your blood pressure medicine without first talking to your health care team could lead to serious health consequences. Learn more about blood pressure medicines.

Make Lifestyle Changes
If you have high blood pressure, you can help lower it by being physically active, eating a healthy diet, and making other lifestyle changes. Learn more about ways to prevent and manage high blood pressure.

Talk with Your Total Health Care Team 
You and your Total Health Care team can work together to prevent or treat the medical conditions that lead to high blood pressure. Discuss your treatment plan regularly and bring a list of questions to your appointments.

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Healthy Habits to Help Prevent Flu

The single best way to prevent seasonal flu is to get vaccinated each year, but good health habits like covering your cough and washing your hands often can help stop the spread of germs and prevent respiratory illnesses like the flu. There also are flu antiviral drugs that can be used to treat and prevent flu. The tips and resources below will help you learn about steps you can take to protect yourself and others from flu and help stop the spread of germs.

Get Vaccinated
Get your family vaccinated: fight flu!
The seasonal flu vaccine protects against the influenza viruses that research indicates will be most common during the upcoming season. There are several flu vaccine options this flu season.

Avoid close contact.
Avoid close contact with people who are sick. When you are sick, keep your distance from others to protect them from getting sick too.

Stay home when you are sick.
If possible, stay home from work, school, and errands when you are sick. This will help prevent spreading your illness to others.

Cover your mouth and nose.
Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick. Flu and other serious respiratory illnesses, like respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), whooping cough, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), are spread by cough, sneezing, or unclean hands.

Clean your hands.
Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand rub.

Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.
Germs are often spread when a person touches something that is contaminated with germs and then touches his or her eyes, nose, or mouth.|

Practice other good health habits.
Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces at home, work or school, especially when someone is ill. Get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage your stress, drink plenty of fluids, and eat nutritious food.

Nonpharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs)

Everyday preventive actions, like nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), are actions – apart from getting vaccinated or taking medicine – that people and communities can take to help slow the spread of illnesses like influenza (flu).

Thanks to Senator Ben Cardin and the local health advocates who joined us at today’s roundtable to spread the word about ACA Open Enrollment.

With the help of the Affordable Care Act, community centers like Total Health Care can offer affordable and essential services to more individuals who need it. 

Don’t forget to visit MarylandHealthConnection.gov to learn more and sign up if you need coverage!

It is with great sadness today, that we note the passing of Congressman Elijah Cummings, a strong and devoted advocate not only for the people in our 7th Congressional District but for people around the nation. He was deeply committed to improving the health and well-being of our communities, including addressing long-standing community trauma.

Total Health Care will continue to honor Cummings’ legacy every day in our work to elevate and improve the lives of Marylanders. We extend our condolences to his family and friends. His strength, passion, and dedication to uplifting all those around him will be sadly missed.

Total Health Care was the recipient of the 2018 HRSA Health Center Quality Improvement Grant for the following areas:

As we go forth in 2019, we continue to be committed to being a medical home for our patients and communities that also addresses in a systematic way the social determinants of health. As our team members continue to administer excellent care, we have a renewed dedication to place our patients at the center of everything we do.

The 2018 Annual Impact Report provides a road map for how Total Health Care is providing quality health care for all. Please review our accomplishments in 2018 and our goals for the future.