by Keri McDermott | Jun 30, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Quality Care Coalition
CDC’s Health Equity Style Guide emphasizes the importance of addressing all people inclusively, with respect, including using non-stigmatizing, bias-free language. Avoid perpetuating negative stereotypes or blaming people for their own life circumstances or health...
by Keri McDermott | Jun 30, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Quality Care Coalition
July 15, 2021 I 12:00 p.m. CT Register Today. Individuals may be reluctant to get the COVID-19 vaccine for many reasons. One way hospitals and health systems can increase vaccination rates for their patients, employees and communities is to focus on why people are...
by Keri McDermott | Jun 28, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, staff in nursing homes have been providing ongoing care to our nation’s most vulnerable. It’s on trusted messengers like you to make sure we’re reaching people who need to be protected from the COVID-19 virus. Building vaccine...
by Keri McDermott | Jun 22, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Great Plains Quality Innovation Network launched a COVID-19 Staff Vaccination Ambassador Program to support COVID-19 vaccination efforts and recognize community-based organizations, healthcare providers and nursing homes with high staff vaccination rates throughout...
by Keri McDermott | Jun 22, 2021 | CMS News, Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Thursday, June 24, 2021 | 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. CT As we continue to support President Biden’s goal for 70 percent of the U.S. adult population to have at least one vaccine shot and 160 million U.S. adults to be fully vaccinated by July 4th, the Chief Health Equity...
by Keri McDermott | Jun 17, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Health Equity, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Guidance for addressing a global infodemic and fostering demand for immunization The Vaccine Misinformation Management Guide was developed to facilitate the development of strategic and well-coordinated national action plans to rapidly counter vaccine misinformation...
by Keri McDermott | Jun 15, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
During the coronavirus crisis of 2020, LeadingAge members and partners, along with their dedicated staff, learned critical lessons about navigating a pandemic. This grant-funded Pandemic Playbook presents the collective intelligence they gathered. This year has...
by Keri McDermott | Jun 11, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Health Equity, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
The U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind national hotline to connect people with disabilities to information and services to improve access to COVID-19 vaccines. The Disability Information and Access Line (DIAL) is now...
by Keri McDermott | Jun 11, 2021 | Care Coordination, Covid-19, Featured, Hospitals, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently shared with immunization program mangers across the country the document “Increasing Access to Vaccination Opportunities: COVID-19 Vaccination upon Discharge from Hospitals, Emergency Departments and Urgent...
by Keri McDermott | Jun 8, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
The U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the launch of a first-of-its-kind national hotline to connect people with disabilities to information and services to improve access to COVID-19 vaccines. The Disability Information and Access Line (DIAL) is now...
