The study will enroll African American patients with uncontrolled hypertension who are entering the home care program of the VNSNY. It will employ a randomized design, whereby all VNSNY nurses who are providing direct care to the eligible study population (an estimated 300 nurses serving an estimated 1000 African American patients with uncontrolled hypertension) will be randomly assigned to a control group or one of two intervention groups upon identification of the first eligible hypertensive patient to whom they provide care during the study period. Throughout the study, each nurse will continue to administer the same intervention, either usual care, basic intervention, or an augmented intervention, so that randomization will be by nurse, rather than by patient. A nurse's initial random assignment to a specific group (usual care, basic treatment, or augmented treatment) will determine the status for all new patients allocated to that particular nurse's care for the duration of the study.