by Keri McDermott | Jan 20, 2023 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
The bivalent booster is the most recent version of the COVID-19 vaccine. It contains both the original vaccine strain [of the virus] and a strain derived from the BA.5 omicron variant, which is currently the most active in the United States, so that we can maximize...
by Keri McDermott | Jan 17, 2023 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety, Opioids, Quality Care Coalition
According to the CDC, 107,375 people in the United States died of drug overdoses and drug poisonings in the 12-month period ending in January 2022. A staggering 67 percent of those deaths involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Some of these deaths were attributed...
by Keri McDermott | Jan 16, 2023 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Improvement (QI) Voices: Improving COVID-19 Outcomes in Nursing Homes Across America is an audio series that gives you a closer look at the projects and the people who are improving health care quality and...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 16, 2023 | CMS News, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
The first 2023 National Stakeholder Call with the CMS Administrator will provide an opportunity to learn more about how you can partner with CMS to help implement its Strategic Plan and key initiatives. January 24, 2023 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT Click Here to...
by Keri McDermott | Jan 10, 2023 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety, Opioids, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
If an individual is thinking about treatment for a substance abuse disorder, he or she is already making a move towards recovery. Fortunately, there are many programs and treatment centers available to help. More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses between...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 10, 2023 | Covid-19, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Immunizations, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Q Tip Podcast
As COVID-19 hits its three-year mark, we have seen nursing homes take some of the biggest hits of the virus with their patients and their staff. Nursing homes homes are now able to enroll in CDC’s COVID-19 Vaccination Program to obtain single-dose vials of a...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 10, 2023 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
2022 was a productive and promising year for Alzheimer’s research, including discoveries related to the causes, risk factors and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Below are five important things we learned about Alzheimer’s in 2022: Alzheimer’s...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 5, 2023 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
The Transformational Project and Sanford Health are presenting the Midwest Gender Identity Summit. Educating, Empowering & Supporting the transgender community through the lens of healthcare. This one day event will highlight the needs of transgender patients in...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 3, 2023 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety, Opioids, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Did you know? The number of drug overdose deaths increased by nearly 30% from 2019 to 2020 and has quintupled since 1999. Nearly 75% of the 91,799 drug overdose deaths in 2020 involved an opioid. 187 people die every day from an opioid overdose.¹ Medical personnel,...
by Keri McDermott | Jan 3, 2023 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Quality Care Coalition
Join the Community HealthCare Association of the Dakotas (CHAD) as they reflect on an expanded narrative of the community health center movement. CHAD’s Equity Talk series provides a platform for interactive learning about local health inequities, life experiences and...