by | 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 | 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 | 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...
by | Dec 27, 2022 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Opioids, Quality Care Coalition
The January 2023 Series begins this Friday (January 6) and will focus on Opioids and Adverse Drug Events. You can register for the Opioid session or Adverse Drug Event session (or both). Click Here to Register for our January Series Our Friday Focus 4 Health Series...
by | Dec 27, 2022 | Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Join the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday January 5, 2023 at 2:00 pm CT for a National Nursing Home Stakeholder Call. Thursday January 5, 2023 I 2:00 pm CT Long-term care providers, facility...
by | Dec 27, 2022 | Cardiac Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety
Several studies have shown that the holiday season – notably the last week of December and early January – see the most out of- hospital heart attacks and cardiac deaths. A “Christmas holiday effect” showing elevated cardiovascular mortality over the Christmas...
by | Dec 21, 2022 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition
Smoking alone kills more than 480,000 Americans each year, and for every person who dies because of smoking, at least 30 people live with a serious smoking-related illness.¹ There are many reasons to stop smoking tobacco products. The many health issues caused by,...
by | Dec 21, 2022 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Opioids, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Substance abuse: the use of illegal drugs or the use of prescription or over-the-counter drugs or alcohol for purposes other than those for which they are meant to be used, or in excessive amounts. Substance abuse may lead to social, physical, emotional and...
by | Dec 21, 2022 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
It’s that time of year again – when we start thinking of New Year’s resolutions. If you were thinking about making health related resolutions, here’s why we want to encourage you to work at achieving those diet and exercise resolutions! Adopt a Healthy Diet:...
by | Dec 13, 2022 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) invites you to view their recent webcast, which provides an overview of the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS®) Surveys. The Webcast was offered on November 7, 2022 – During the one hour session,...
