CMS Releases Nursing Home COVID-19 Training Data with Urgent Call to Action

by Keri McDermott | Nov 18, 2020 | CMS News, Featured

Thanks to the nursing homes whose staff have completed free CMS training, but remaining homes are urged to take advantage of this resource November 18, 2020 – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is publicly recognizing the 1,092 nursing homes...

Decisional Making Capacity: Great Plains QIN Huddle [November 17]

by Keri McDermott | Nov 17, 2020 | Featured

Access to geriatric care improves the quality of life for patients and residents in our communities. Great Plains Quality Innovation Network is partnering with the University of North Dakota to improve access to care for patients with complex conditions in rural and...

Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Application and COVID-19

by Keri McDermott | Nov 17, 2020 | CMS News, Featured

2020 Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception and Promoting Interoperability Hardship Exception Application Deadline: December 31, 2020 CMS Memo | November 16, 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all clinicians across the United States and...

Project ECHO Webinar [November 30]: Managing Stress and Burnout during the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Keri McDermott | Nov 17, 2020 | Covid-19, Featured

Project ECHO COVID-19 Global Conversations November 30, 2020 | 9:00 a.m. (CT) Managing Stress and Burnout during the COVID-19 Pandemic Healthcare workers around the globe working to combat COVID-19 and thinking deeply about how to create a new normal as we move...

CDC Webinar [December 7] – Flu Vaccination Through Late Fall and Winter: It’s Not Too Late!

by Keri McDermott | Nov 17, 2020 | Featured, Immunizations

CDC Webinar – Flu Vaccination Through Late Fall and Winter: It’s Not Too Late! Monday, December 7, 2020 from 1 – 2 pm CT Register Today During the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be important for all individuals, especially those at high-risk, to receive an annual...

Making Time For Difficult Conversations About What Matters

by Keri McDermott | Nov 16, 2020 | Featured

It Always Seems Too Early Until It Is Too Late On a recent Webinar, Nancy Joyner, Honoring Choices, shared her insight, experiences and practical tools to help us with the conversations we want to avoid at all cost. It is the conversation about how we want to live...

CMS COVID-19 Stakeholder Engagement Calls [November 2020]

by Keri McDermott | Nov 16, 2020 | CMS News, Covid-19, Featured

CMS hosts varied recurring stakeholder engagement sessions to share information related to the agency’s response to COVID-19. These sessions are open to members of the healthcare community and are intended to provide updates, share best practices among peers, and...

The Rural Impact: Social Determinants of Health Toolkit | New Listserv Now Available

by Keri McDermott | Nov 10, 2020 | Featured

New Listserv Topic for Rural Populations Rethinking Rural Health is a vital part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) push to transform the health care delivery system to a model that delivers high quality, affordable and accessible health...

Decisional Making Capacity: TeleECHO Session [November 10] and Huddle [November 17]

by Keri McDermott | Nov 9, 2020 | Featured

Access to geriatric care improves the quality of life for patients and residents in our communities. Great Plains Quality Innovation Network is partnering with the University of North Dakota to improve access to care for patients with complex conditions in rural and...

Advance Care Planning Webinar: It Always Seems Too Early Until It Is Too Late [November 11, 2020]

by Keri McDermott | Nov 9, 2020 | Featured

What is the most important conversation that we should be having, but avoid at all cost? It is the conversation about how we want to live until the last day of our life, part of the advance care planning process. In this COVID pandemic, more people are facing their...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Medicare Beneficiaries’ Daily Life

by Keri McDermott | Nov 9, 2020 | CMS News, Covid-19, Featured

Older adults have been especially impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, as they are at higher risk of serious illness if infected and account for 80 percent of all COVID-related deaths. Current public health guidelines recommend older adults limit in-person social...

Every 21 Seconds Someone New is Diagnosed with Diabetes. We Can Do Better.

by Keri McDermott | Nov 3, 2020 | Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured

National Diabetes Month is observed every November to draw attention to diabetes and its effects on millions of Americans. Every year, we come together to ring the alarm on the diabetes epidemic. For the millions who are at risk for it, it’s a time to get educated,...