Joe’s Choice: Manage Diabetes Using Lifestyle Change
Managing diabetes to prevent complications and improve quality of life is a daily reality for 30.3 million Americans. Millions more are unaware they are living with diabetes (7.2 million) or prediabetes (75.6 million). The American Diabetes Association Diabetes Alert...
National Patient Safety Awareness Week: Focusing Beyond the Hospital
While patient safety improvement efforts have historically focused on inpatient settings, less work has been directed toward ambulatory care settings, even though most care is provided in these settings. In the United States, roughly one billion ambulatory visits...
Spreading the Vision of Experience Creation: Upcoming Learning Opportunity
Providing clear vision is both a healthcare service and the intentional focus for leadership at Vance Thompson Vision. With five locations across the Midwest, the practice is designed to maximize the patient experience based on the concept that seeing your best means...
Submit Your Entry: 2019 Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Challenge
2019 Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Challenge Deadline Approaching: Submit your entry today! The Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Challenge is a competition to identify clinicians, practices and health systems that have demonstrated exceptional achievements...
Faulkton Navigates the Fine Line of Antibiotic Stewardship
With each winter storm the desire for sunshine grows, but too much sun can become an equally difficult problem. There’s a fine line between just enough and too much of even the best things. Healthcare professionals in Faulkton are working to close this gap of...
What’s on the GPQIN Calendar?
The Great Plains Quality Innovation Network offers several educational opportunities for healthcare partners. The topics are diverse; there is something for everyone! We hope you are able to join us. Check out the Great Plains QIN calendar for upcoming webinar’s and...
Expose Toes to Save Limbs and Prevent Complications from Diabetes
From smooth and polished to callused and stinky, feet provide valuable insights to the health of every individual diagnosed with diabetes. High blood sugar can damage nerves in the feet and legs causing pain and numbness called neuropathy. This lack of feeling...
Deadly Staph Infections Still Threaten the U.S.
New report shows significant national progress is slowing, causing concern Staph infections are still a threat. Staph is found on the skin of humans and does not always cause infections. If staph gets into the blood stream, serious infections can develop that may...
CMS Improving Nursing Home Compare
Changes offer greater support to consumers looking to compare quality of Nursing Homes The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced updates coming in April to Nursing Home Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System; strengthening this...
Kidney Disease: ‘The Silent Killer’
Kidney disease is often referred to as the “silent killer” and often presents no symptoms in its earliest phase. Education, awareness, lifestyle choices, and knowing what can cause kidneys to fail can make a significant difference in preventing kidney disease....