by | Sep 22, 2022 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Care Coordination, Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Nursing Home Quality, Opioids, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
This high prevalence of mental health and substance use disorders in the United States is a growing concern and has been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, the past-year prevalence of any mental illness among adults in the United States was 21%, meaning that...
by | Sep 20, 2022 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
New research reported at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC®) 2022 covered the breadth of Alzheimer’s and dementia research, including the basic biology of aging and the brain, risk factors and prevention strategies, and caregiving and living...
by | Sep 19, 2022 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Medicine Wheel Village, located on the Cheyenne River reservation, in Eagle Butte, SD, has achieved impressive success in ensuring staff and residents are up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters; currently at 100 percent. Medicine Wheel Village...
by | Sep 9, 2022 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Immunizations, Patient Safety
The new U.S. COVID-19 boosters are combination, or “Bivalent,” shots. They contain half the original vaccine recipe and half for the protection against the newest omicron versions, called BA.4 and BA.5, that are considered the most contagious yet. The bivalent...
by | Sep 6, 2022 | Antibiotic Stewardship, Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Immunizations, Medication Safety, Patient Safety, Success Story
Meet Darleen Gangl; she and her husband, Brad, live in Bottineau, North Dakota. She is an avid vintage Barbie collector and enjoys researching her family tree. Darleen is also a two-time sepsis survivor. Thirteen years ago, Darleen was diagnosed with necrotizing...
by | Sep 5, 2022 | Covid-19, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Bacteria hitchhike and latch on to surfaces and hands, so reducing this risk, must be part of an organization’s Infection Prevention Control program. Infections in our older adult population have high mortality rates and contaminated environmental surfaces is...
by | Aug 26, 2022 | Covid-19, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Immunizations, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
The North Dakota State University Center for Immunization Research and Education is excited to welcome Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, as its third guest presenter in Bringing the Experts to You: A Webinar Series on Vaccines. In this webinar, Dr. Hotez will discuss COVID-19...
by | Aug 22, 2022 | Covid-19, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Immunizations, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
On August 16, we were fortunate to have a panel of four local experts discuss immunizations and vaccinations in our communities. The panel answered a series of questions, which included: What does data show us about immunization rates of influenza, pneumococcal and...
by | Aug 18, 2022 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Quality Care Coalition
The COVID-19 Community Level tool from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) can help communities decide what prevention steps to take based on the latest data. Levels can be low, medium or high and are determined by looking at hospital beds being used,...
by | Aug 18, 2022 | Covid-19, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Immunizations, Quality Care Coalition
Attend the upcoming Current Issues in Vaccines webinar to learn how to interpret and employ new or updated vaccine information and how to discuss vaccine-related information with patients and family members and explain considerations related to the COVID-19 booster...
