by Kelsey Olson | Jan 27, 2023 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Medication Safety, Patient Safety, Public Observances, Q Tip Podcast
Antibiotic stewardship is the effort to measure and improve how antibiotics are prescribed by clinicians and used by patients. Emily Perry is an antibiotic stewardship pharmacist within the Center for Collaboration and Advancement in Pharmacy (CAP). Perry is less than...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 26, 2023 | Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Immunizations, Patient Safety, Public Observances
The North Dakota State University Center for Immunization Research and Education (CIRE) welcomes Dr. Paul Offit as the fourth guest presenter in Bringing the Experts to You: A Webinar Series on Vaccines. Thursday, February 23, 2023 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm CST Register...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 24, 2023 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition, Success Story
Cheri Fast and Jessica Danko, project managers for the South Dakota Foundation for Medical Care, are among the first in the nation to be awarded the CBIC Long-Term Care Certification in Infection Control. Fast and Danko are innovative leaders in long-term care. This...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 24, 2023 | Cardiac Care, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
The “Know Diabetes by Heart™” Campaign aims to raise awareness about the link between diabetes and heart disease and to provide education and resources to help people with diabetes lower their risk of heart disease. Type 2 diabetes is a serious condition...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 24, 2023 | Cardiac Care, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Public Observances, Quality Care Coalition
In the United States, approximately 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur each year and less than 10% of these victims survive¹. Fortunately, survival rates can be significantly increased by a simple, yet lifesaving technique – CPR (Cardiopulmonary...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 20, 2023 | CMS News, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is pleased to invite the public to attend the upcoming webinar “From Data to Action: How CMS and its Stakeholders are Addressing Inequities in Healthcare.” Join the discussion of the CMS Health Equity Framework...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 16, 2023 | CMS News, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
The first 2023 National Stakeholder Call with the CMS Administrator will provide an opportunity to learn more about how you can partner with CMS to help implement its Strategic Plan and key initiatives. January 24, 2023 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT Click Here to...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 10, 2023 | Covid-19, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Immunizations, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Q Tip Podcast
As COVID-19 hits its three-year mark, we have seen nursing homes take some of the biggest hits of the virus with their patients and their staff. Nursing homes homes are now able to enroll in CDC’s COVID-19 Vaccination Program to obtain single-dose vials of a...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 10, 2023 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
2022 was a productive and promising year for Alzheimer’s research, including discoveries related to the causes, risk factors and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Below are five important things we learned about Alzheimer’s in 2022: Alzheimer’s...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 5, 2023 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
The Transformational Project and Sanford Health are presenting the Midwest Gender Identity Summit. Educating, Empowering & Supporting the transgender community through the lens of healthcare. This one day event will highlight the needs of transgender patients in...
