Get oriented to The Force for Health Network and certify yourself as a Prepared Provider for Peripheral Artery Disease — so you, your nurses, your vascular surgery partners, your cardiac-rehab team, your lipid clinic, and your patient's family are all reading from the same Force Field framework. PAD management runs on statin adherence, BP control, diabetes management, smoking cessation, and the daily Force Field that prevents the next event. The Prepared Patient program puts those tools — plus the Disease Advocate Bingo Card for the family and the engagement screener that gets a patient leaning in — straight into your visit, your portal, and your patient's home.
FFHN gives every Prepared Provider the same content library, the same patient-side tools, and the same outcomes infrastructure — so the conversation in your office, on the phone, and on the chart is one continuous thread.
The Prepared Patient program covers twelve conditions and growing — Sickle Cell Disease, Hypertension, Type 2 Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Heart Failure, Sleep Apnea, Falls Prevention, CKD, Obesity, Anxiety, and Depression. Get certified for one and you're inside the whole network.
Force Field Fact Sheets, screeners, courses, Skills Lab modules, Disease Advocate Bingo cards, and home-tools kits — all in plain language, all FFH-authored, all ready to hand a patient (or family) at the end of the visit.
Every certified Prepared Patient is enrolled in the FFH ROI Engine and PHIT, so the program proves whether it actually reduces ER visits, rehospitalizations, and avoidable cost — for your practice and for the system.
Nine deliverables — the same nine for every condition in the network. Hand any of these to a patient or family member with confidence; they're all written in FFH plain language with the Force Field framework you'll see throughout the program.
Universal foundation that every Prepared Patient builds on.
One-page Force Field overview of Peripheral Artery Disease, in plain language.
Quick self-screen — risk or current status.
Pretest, modules, quizzes, comorbidity & caregiver intake, next-goal panel.
Home kit and how-to sheets — meters, action plans, fridge magnets, wallet cards.
Hands-on demo with a PPEC sign-off rubric.
Patient earns the Prepared Patient Ambassador credential.
16 advocacy / community / support squares — for the family and friends.
Plus the deeper clinical course where one exists: Prepared Medical Professional · PAD (coming soon).
Every asset above maps to a specific moment in the patient's week. The point of the Prepared Patient program is that you, your nurses, and the patient's family are all reading from the same script.
Open the Force Field Fact Sheet on the exam-room screen. Walk it together. Hand the printed copy on the way out, and prescribe the Course as homework.
For nurse-line and triage calls, the Fact Sheet's red-flag list IS the script. The Course's "When to Call" module is what the patient should already have read.
Drop the Course link straight into the post-visit portal message. The patient picks up where you left off, takes the pre-test, and is measurably more prepared by the next visit.
The Materials & Tools kit page tells them exactly what hardware to buy or borrow (cuff, oximeter, glucometer, peak-flow meter) and how to use it. Skills Lab covers the demo.
The Fact Sheet plus the school-nurse / occupational-health email template inside the Course handles 80% of accommodation requests without your sign-off.
Where deep clinical courses exist (e.g., the Prepared Medical Professional courses), they cover ER triage, pain protocols, and admission rounding. Train your staff once.
Discharge with the Fact Sheet, the Course log-in, the Tools Kit list, and a two-week portal check-in scheduled. The 30-day readmission rate is the metric we're chasing together.
The Disease Advocate Bingo Card gets the family, friends, and support-group leaders aligned. They're the team you can't usually reach during a visit.
FFH ROI Engine + PHIT roll up engagement and outcome data weekly so you (and your value-based contract) can see whether this is working.
Certification for one condition unlocks the whole network's content and outcomes infrastructure — not just the one disease you trained on.
Every condition's anatomy view is in your toolbelt. Pull up the PAD model in the room when a patient asks "what is actually happening to my body?"
Comorbidities are the rule, not the exception. A PAD patient with anxiety, obesity, or sleep apnea gets the same plain-language Force Field treatment for every diagnosis.
Prescribe whichever course the patient needs; a single sign-on opens the whole library. No re-enrollment friction across diagnoses.
Pharmacies, support groups, free-clinic hours, transportation, food pantries, school nurse contacts, faith-community partners — pulled from the FFH PHIT folder for the patient's actual neighborhood.
See your own panel's engagement, knowledge gain, and avoided-utilization metrics. Use the same dashboards to make the case to your CFO.
Use the Prepared Patient Educator & Certifier console to sign off your patient's hands-on skills — or delegate to your nurse, your CHW, or a community Ambassador.
Every Prepared Patient course tracks the patient's self-rated confidence pre/post. The Provider Hub mirrors that for you — what you feel ready to teach, what you'd like more support on.
For patients who can't afford a cuff, a glucometer, or a peak-flow meter, the FFH Academy Foundation has small-grant pathways. Your Provider Hub references the request form.
Five steps. Most providers complete it inside an hour, then practice with the next two patients on the schedule.
Watch a 12-minute video on FFHN, the Prepared Patient program, and the Force Field framework. Open every asset card above at least once.
Read the same Force Field Fact Sheet your patient reads. Take the Prepared Patient course pre-test (yes, you).
Pick three of the nine use cases above (office, phone, telemedicine — whichever fits your practice). Practice once with a colleague.
20-question exam covering the Fact Sheet, the Course, red flags, the use-case map, and the FFH outcomes infrastructure.
You become a Force for Health Prepared Provider · PAD. Listed in the FFH directory; eligible for value-based-contract attribution.
PHIT — the Population Health Insights Tool, built and maintained by Lucy Howell — gives you a live view of how the Peripheral Artery Disease program is actually performing, on your panel and across the network. Use it for value-based-contract reviews, board reports, grant applications, and the everyday "is this working?" question.
Per-cohort, per-clinic, per-provider drilldowns. Compare your panel to the FFH Network averages. Export to PDF for service-line reviews.
Open the PAD dashboard →PHIT is built and maintained by Lucy Howell, FFH Network CEO. Dashboard access is included with every Prepared Provider certification.
Once your patient enters their ZIP code in the Prepared Patient course, PHIT pulls the local pharmacies, support groups, free-clinic hours, food pantries, transportation options, and faith-community partners that match PAD. For PAD specifically, that includes accredited cardiac rehab programs, AHA Get With The Guidelines hospitals, lipid clinics and FH (familial hypercholesterolemia) screening centers, smoking-cessation programs, mental-health partners (depression often co-travels with PAD), and the AHA's Million Hearts initiative.
PHIT is the data layer of The Force for Health Network — built and maintained by Lucy Howell, FFH Network CEO. It turns the program's underlying outcomes infrastructure into live dashboards for clinicians, service lines, CFOs, and clients.
Every certified Prepared Provider gets dashboard access included with certification — no separate license. Health system clients get cohort and panel attribution for VBC review meetings. Foundation grants and research partners get a research-grade export view.