by | May 9, 2024 | Cardiac Care, Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
Since May is High Blood Pressure Education Month, what better way to teach your patients about their blood pressure than to implement self-measured blood pressure (SMBP) monitoring in your practice? The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) for...
by | May 1, 2024 | Cardiac Care, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition
Most adult smokers – nearly 70% – say they want to quit, and many make quit attempts each year. In 2020, slightly more than half of current adult smokers (56%) made a quit attempt, and in 2021 one-third of current e-cigarette users reported an attempt to quit vaping....
by | Apr 26, 2024 | Cardiac Care, Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety
The American Heart Association has launched an important initiative that aims to improve cardiac and stroke healthcare outcomes in rural hospitals. In 2020, the Call to Action: Rural Health: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association and American...
by | Apr 16, 2024 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Cardiac Care, Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
The Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilities (COE-NF) is excited to announce their 2024 series of the Behavioral Health Action Network. This series of six-monthly virtual one-hour sessions will kick off in May 2024. COE-NF is inviting...
by | Apr 16, 2024 | Cardiac Care, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Quality Care Coalition
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), nearly half of all Americans have high blood pressure and many don’t know they have it. Uncontrolled high blood pressure is a silent killer that causes unnecessary and inequitable disease, disability and death,...
by | Mar 28, 2024 | Cardiac Care, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
The Million Hearts® Cholesterol Management Change Package (CMCP) was developed in partnership with the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and the American Medical Association (AMA). This change package provides clinicians in outpatient settings...
by | Mar 4, 2024 | Cardiac Care, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety
Want to learn more about cardiac rehab services in the Dakotas? Looking for opportunities to improve cardiac care in your organization or community? Interested in resources and tools for outpatient programs? If so, access the recording from a recent Webinar, hosted by...
by | 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...
by | Feb 14, 2024 | Cardiac Care, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Public Observances, Quality of Care Transitions
We invite you to put on your best red and make plans to join us as North Dakota Lt. Governor Miller acknowledges American Heart Month with a proclamation and a celebration of the State Capitol’s Cardiac Ready Campus designation. This celebration will feature...
by | 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...