 My name is Lula M. Evans. I'm 82 years old. I found out I had high blood pressure when I was 65 years old. I didn't know anything about high blood pressure. I heard of other people having high blood pressure, but not me. Most members are unaware that they have high blood pressure until we diagnose it because they may be symptomatic for quite a while. We have about 10,500 patients who have hypertension in our internal medicine department. About 8,800 of them are African-American. Lula Evans came into the blood pressure clinic one day and her blood pressure was pretty high and she was stressed because it was hard for her to get to clinic. My cousin takes me to Kaiser every appointment I have. We actually started a program for some patients where they have a little bit of difficulty getting to the facility. We give them a loan or blood pressure machine to take home. And we're able to make immediate medication adjustments or assess what their pressures have been and if they need to come in and see the doctor, they can do that as well. It worked out lovely for Ms. Evans because she could avoid having to come back every two weeks. She called me every day with her blood pressure readings. It's very convenient for me to have the blood pressure kit here with me. As soon as I take it, I will call her. She's so much happier now. And she told me she changed her diet and taking her medication. Working in a UBT is a gift to this department. Being able to have our frontline staff involved in the decision-making about how we're going to take on certain challenges in the department. I changed my eating habits. I am healthy. I can live a better life without being worried about whether my blood pressure is too high, too low, or I'm going to fall out and have a stroke.