Lankenau Initiative to Improve Cardiovascular Access (LIICA)

Lankenau Initiative to Improve Cardiovascular Access (LIICA) is aimed at ensuring our local, medically-underserved patients have access to the resources they need to recover from significant cardiac events and remain healthy, with the goal of improving long-term outcomes and saving lives. The strategy is to provide secondary cardiovascular event prevention care by first understanding the unique individual and environmental factors this population faces and then working to address these challenges. It is being spearheaded by Dr. Mara Caroline and physician assistant Amanda McClendon who are partnering with an impressive, interdisciplinary team to execute the program. Philanthropy has the opportunity to address some of the common barriers to care that the LIICA team has identified in working with our community. Ultimately, we hope to build a scalable and replicable program that can have impact far beyond our initial pilot program and service area.