![Updated Community Data Reports [Q1 2024]: Addressing Gaps, Achieving Growth and Quality Improvement](https://greatplainsqin.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/QualityInfographic1-1280x300-1080x300.jpg)
by | Sep 12, 2024 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Cardiac Care, Care Coordination, Covid-19, Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Immunizations, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Opioids, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
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 | Sep 5, 2024 | Chronic Disease Self-Management, Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Sepsis is the body’s overwhelming and life-threatening response to infection that can lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death. The skin is the body’s largest organ and protects the body from germs and houses nerves to help detect sensations. Diabetes can affect...
by | Jul 3, 2024 | Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Opioids, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition
An adverse drug event (ADE) is “an injury resulting from the use of a drug.” Under this definition, the term adverse drug event includes harm caused by the drug (adverse drug reactions and overdoses) and harm from the use of the drug. ADE’s may result from...
by | Mar 27, 2024 | Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Covid-19, Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Home Health, Hospitals, Immunizations, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Opioids, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
Looking for health care information and quality resources? We added a few more episodes to our new podcast series: Q-Tips For Your Ears. This podcast is designed for everyone – healthcare professionals, patients and family members; sharing basic healthcare information...
by | Mar 27, 2024 | Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Over the years there have been various methods used to measure and evaluate blood glucose for those who live with diabetes. A1C has been the most commonly used indicator for determining blood glucose control among individuals with diabetes since its discovery in the...
by | Mar 8, 2024 | Chronic Disease Self-Management, Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition
37.3 million Americans—or about 11.3% of the U.S. population—have diabetes.1 Diabetes Alert Day, observed on the fourth Tuesday of March each year, this year being March 26, serves as a wake-up call to raise awareness about the risks of diabetes. In 2024, as we mark...
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by | Mar 6, 2024 | Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Covid-19, Diabetes Care, Featured, Health Equity, Hospitals, Immunizations, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Opioids, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
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 | Jan 23, 2024 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Immunizations, Medication Safety, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
The Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center (RM-PHTC), which is funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), is offering a total of $60,000 in funding to up to 12 organizations to offer leadership learning opportunities to professionals...
by | Jan 12, 2024 | Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
In the United States, 16.3 million people signed up for coverage in the 2023 Open Enrollment, allowing them to gain or renew access to the health coverage they need¹. Enrolling in a health plan, however, is only the initial step. To help you go from coverage to care,...
by | Jan 11, 2024 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Alzheimer’s disease is expected to impact nearly 13 million Americans by 2050, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. So, as you are working at those New Year’s resolutions in 2024, consider there are steps you can take yourself to maintain and improve your...
