In a new Leadership Page published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, George A. Stouffer, MD, FACC; William B. Abernethy, MD, FACC; James P. Zidar, MD, FACC; and B. Hadley Wilson, MD, FACC, discuss a collaboration between the North Carolina Chapter of the American College of Cardiology and the ACC Prevention Section in partnership with the North Carolina Association of Free and Charitable Clinics, which was designed to improve the cardiovascular health of North Carolina's most vulnerable patients by providing free lipid-lowering medications and clopidogrel. Over two years, there was an increase in patients receiving medications and significant decreases in total cholesterol and LDL levels in the clinics that provided free medications. Programs like this may improve adherence and medical costs and are also a way to reach society's most vulnerable patients. Read more.