by sfredenburg | May 16, 2019 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare Acquired Conditions in Nursing Homes, Success Story
Avera Eureka Health Care Center (Avera Eureka) has achieved the monthly National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative (NHQCC) Quality Measure Composite Score goal of 6.0 or less for the past 30 months. Achieving this monthly score is significant as only 10% of the...
by sfredenburg | May 15, 2019 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Public Observances, Sepsis, Success Story
Residents of rural and frontier areas rely on local Emergency Medical Services (EMS) professionals and volunteers to provide life-saving care when time is of the essence. These first responders become the faces and voices for those in healthcare crisis. In addition...
by sfredenburg | May 14, 2019 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals
Just Culture is a clear and easy-to-use healthcare quality tool used to manage risk and prevent adverse events. Leaders use the system to determine if an action was a simple human error, a risky choice or a reckless choice and how that behavior or choice...
by sfredenburg | May 7, 2019 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety
The misuse of prescribed and non-prescribed opioids has led to a rise in deaths and created a ripple effect for increased hospitalization and healthcare costs. Although education, resources, and policies have been developed for prescribing opioid medication,...
by sfredenburg | Apr 29, 2019 | Cardiac Care, Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Meaningful Use
Strokes are happening at younger ages and statistics show increasing rates for the 45-64 age group. High blood pressure is one of the risk factors for stroke, along with high cholesterol, obesity and diabetes. Given the connection, National Stroke Awareness and...
by sfredenburg | Apr 23, 2019 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare Acquired Conditions in Nursing Homes, Home Health, Success Story
Several residents at Platte Health Care Avera are enjoying the benefits of individualized music playlists thanks to the Music & Memory ® South Dakota program. The program can assist in many areas including decreased use of anti-psychotic medications and depression...
by sfredenburg | Apr 16, 2019 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Public Observances
Healthcare is personal. Any individual in need of healthcare services becomes vulnerable. The level of comfort and confidence relayed by healthcare professionals at every stage of care can impact positive health outcomes. Long waits, big words and confusing bills...
by sfredenburg | Apr 9, 2019 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Immunizations
Each year approximately 42,000 adults die from vaccine preventable diseases. Ongoing surges of negative social media messages increase fear of negative health outcomes causing parents/patients to question the need for vaccines. This uncertainty has been identified as...
by sfredenburg | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals
American Indians and Alaska Natives born today have a life expectancy of five and a half years shorter than other race populations in the United States (73.0 years to 78.5 years, respectively). The Partnership to Advance Tribal Health (PATH) team partners with Indian...
by sfredenburg | Mar 26, 2019 | Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Public Observances
The American Diabetes Association Diabetes Alert Day is today, March 26, 2019, and focuses on the seriousness of diabetes and encourages the use of a quick and simple Diabetes Risk Test. Managing diabetes to prevent complications and improve quality of life is a daily...
by sfredenburg | Mar 25, 2019 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare Acquired Conditions in Nursing Homes, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Hospitals
Claims data, billing codes and quality improvement plans are among the common tools used by Great Plains Quality Innovation Network (QIN) staff as they seek new and innovative ways to achieve better healthcare, improved health, safer care and lower healthcare costs....
by sfredenburg | Mar 25, 2019 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare Acquired Conditions in Nursing Homes, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Success Story
Great Plains Quality Innovation Network (QIN) has recognized 17 South Dakota nursing homes as Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) Trailblazers as a result of their successful participation in the Nursing Home C. difficile Reporting and Reduction...
