by Kelsey Olson | Feb 20, 2024 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Immunizations, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition
Vaccines have greatly reduced diseases that once routinely harmed or killed children and adults. People all over the world—including in the United States—still become seriously ill or even die from diseases that vaccines can help prevent. It is important that you stay...
by Kelsey Olson | Feb 20, 2024 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality of Care Transitions
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), is a type of bacterial infection that causes diarrhea, abdominal pain, and sometimes life-threatening complications. CDI has been most associated with antibiotic use, which can disrupt the normal balance of gut bacteria and...
by Kelsey Olson | Feb 19, 2024 | Cardiac Care, Care Coordination, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Watch this Webinar, hosted by Great Plains QIN, to learn cardiac rehab services in the Dakotas; results from a cardiac rehab environmental scan will be shared. Viewers will be better able to recognize opportunities to increase the quality of care that cardiac patients...
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by Kelsey Olson | Feb 13, 2024 | Care Coordination, Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
The Great Plains QIN team strives to improve healthcare quality and patient outcomes. We work with partners and community coalitions to identify areas for improvement, which include reducing avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions, including those caused by...
by Kelsey Olson | Feb 13, 2024 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
The power of cultural humility is endless and it is important to recognize and embrace the diversity of cultures and languages that exist around us. Dakota Children’s’ Advocacy Center partnered with Prevent Child Abuse ND (PCAND) to host a virtual series...
by Kelsey Olson | Feb 13, 2024 | Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Home Health, Hospitals, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
Engaging in physical activity is incredibly important for maintaining overall health, yet individuals with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) often find themselves less likely to participate physical activities. Maintaining moderate-intensity physical activities may provide...
by Kelsey Olson | Feb 8, 2024 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Immunizations, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition
Great Plains QIN has created four unique Valentines Day Posters that were developed for use in your organization to promote the COVID vaccination with a Valentine’s Day theme. Please print and post in your lobby, break room or hallways. Thank you for all you do to...
by Kelsey Olson | Feb 2, 2024 | Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition
Did you know that a wood frog can hold its urine for up to 8 months? Don’t let your residents be wood frogs! Emptying the bladder often helps prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs). Sometimes it’s difficult for residents living with dementia to express...
by Kelsey Olson | Feb 2, 2024 | Cardiac Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition
Insomnia is not unusual in women, especially during midlife. But how does that relate to increase cardiovascular risk over time? According to a research article recently published in Circulation, an American Heart Association journal, persistent insomnia symptoms and...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 29, 2024 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
In November 2016, CMS issued an Emergency Preparedness Rule for all Medicare and Medicaid participating providers and suppliers. The purpose of this rule was to ensure providers and suppliers had the planning, the resources, and the community backing they needed to...
