Best Practice Briefs: Crisis Prevention and Recovery | December 2021

Best Practice Briefs: Crisis Prevention and Recovery | December 2021

by | Nov 16, 2021 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition

Real People, Real Processes, Real Success A partnership of the Great Plains Quality Innovation Network and the South Dakota Foundation for Medical Care Creating connections among community resources and healthcare facilities provides a pathway for individuals to come...
Palliative Care: A Basic Human Right for Patients Facing Serious Illness

Palliative Care: A Basic Human Right for Patients Facing Serious Illness

by | Nov 10, 2021 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Public Observances, Quality Care Coalition

Submitted by: Nancy Joyner, MS, CNS-BC, APRN, ACHPN® November is Hospice and Palliative Care Month. This year’s theme is “Meeting You Where You Are.” Patients and healthcare professionals don’t understand the distinction between these two medical...
Connecting the Dots: Antibiotics, Immunizations and Sepsis

Connecting the Dots: Antibiotics, Immunizations and Sepsis

by | Nov 10, 2021 | Antibiotic Stewardship, Care Coordination, Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Immunizations, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Opioids, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition

Hats, mittens, cough drops and Kleenex become common shopping list items as the winter season approaches. Protection against the cold and supplies to fight a cold seem to be connected. Infections are a growing health concern and the Great Plains Quality Innovation...
CDC COCA Call: What Clinicians, Pharmacists and Public Health Partners Need to Know about Antibiotic Prescribing and COVID-19 | November 18

CDC COCA Call: What Clinicians, Pharmacists and Public Health Partners Need to Know about Antibiotic Prescribing and COVID-19 | November 18

by | Nov 10, 2021 | Antibiotic Stewardship, Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition

Thursday, November 18, 2021 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published several studies characterizing antibiotic prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic in outpatient, nursing home, and hospital settings. Findings from...
Great Plains QIN Webinar: Cross-Cutting Strategies to Improve Infection Prevention & Control​ | November 16

Great Plains QIN Webinar: Cross-Cutting Strategies to Improve Infection Prevention & Control​ | November 16

by | Nov 9, 2021 | Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition

Attend this Webinar to explore cross-cutting strategies to improve infection prevention and control. The Great Plains QIN team will explain how to use the performance tracking tool in your auditing/surveillance program​ and how to improve and/or implement competency...
North Dakota: Connect Others to your Healthcare and Community Educational Events

North Dakota: Connect Others to your Healthcare and Community Educational Events

by | Nov 8, 2021 | Care Coordination, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition

Early in 2020 the North Dakota Healthcare Partners Events Calendar (NDHPEC)—a collaborative effort between Quality Health Associates of North Dakota (QHA) and the Center for Rural Health (CRH)—was launched. The calendar provides a repository in a simple, streamlined...
C. diff is Estimated to Cause Almost a Half a Million Infections In the U.S. Each Year

C. diff is Estimated to Cause Almost a Half a Million Infections In the U.S. Each Year

by | Nov 5, 2021 | Antibiotic Stewardship, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition

Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) is a germ that causes diarrhea and inflammation of the colon. The CDC estimates C. diff impacts almost half a million people in the United States each year and an estimated 29,300 deaths. C. diff is a bacteria spread by microscopic...