Brava Magazine shares story of STAC's success

Kara Hoppe, DO, PhD, associate professor in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, spoke with Brava Magazine about the postpartum hypertension home monitoring program Staying Healthy After Childbirth (STAC). 

In Healthy Heart, Healthy Parent, Hoppe described the origins of STAC and the program’s trajectory, beginning as a seed grant in 2017 to becoming the standard of care at UnityPoint Health-Meriter Hospital for patients with high blood pressure during pregnancy or delivery:

“It’s the largest [postpartum blood pressure monitoring] program across Wisconsin and one of the biggest in the country too,” says Dr. Hoppe. “And it was all because I felt [there] was a problem with the way we were caring for people and there was a solvable answer. I think it’s the wave of the future.”

Read the whole story here!

**originally published March 2025