by Keri McDermott | Feb 12, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN
The impact of COVID-19 on our lives, our activities and our freedom has affected us all. The responsibility is ours, as a community of healthcare providers, to help stop this virus. Building defenses against COVID-19 in your facility and in your community is a team...
by Keri McDermott | Feb 12, 2021 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Patient Safety
Patient Safety Awareness Week | March 14 – 20, 2021 In recognition of Patient Safety Awareness Week, we are encouraging the acknowledgement and celebration of efforts to improve safe care throughout healthcare. We invite you to celebrate and bring your care team...
by Keri McDermott | Feb 5, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured
It’s hard to imagine a time when we didn’t know COVID-19 existed. The impact of COVID-19 on our lives, our activities and our freedom has affected us all. The responsibility is ours, as a community, to help stop this virus. We now have a new, safe, and effective tool...
by Keri McDermott | Feb 5, 2021 | 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...
by Keri McDermott | Feb 4, 2021 | Featured, Medication Safety, Opioids
The Opioid & Naloxone (ONE Rx) team at North Dakota State University’s Department of Pharmacy Practice recently received recognition for a paper they authored titled, Program evaluation of the Opioid and Naloxone Education (ONE Rx) program using the RE-AIM...
by Keri McDermott | Feb 3, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Nursing Home Quality
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is real among healthcare workers: in a January Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) poll, about one in three health care workers planned to wait to see how the vaccine is working or would get it only if required to. The American Health Care...
by Keri McDermott | Feb 2, 2021 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety
Medications can be lifesaving treatments that change the world. Unfortunately, if not used properly medications can also lead to adverse events. In fact adverse drug events (ADEs) account for over 1 million emergency department visits a year and 1/3 of all hospital...
by Keri McDermott | Feb 2, 2021 | Cardiac Care, Featured
Heart disease is a leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. Most middle-aged and young adults have one or more risk factors for heart disease, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or being a smoker or overweight. Having...
by Keri McDermott | Feb 1, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Healthcare-Associated Infections
The focus on combating coronavirus during the pandemic has made it easier for other healthcare associated infections (HAIs) to spread. Many of the interventions to prevent, test and monitor for HAI were deprioritized to have additional resources available to address...
by Keri McDermott | Feb 1, 2021 | 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...