by selsen | Oct 23, 2018 | Antibiotic Stewardship, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Medication Safety
The pharmaceutical industry is changing. Changes such as value-based reimbursement, physician shortage, demand for better patient outcomes, rising cost of prescription drugs and the increase in diagnosis of chronic diseases is forcing these changes to occur. It is...
by sfredenburg | Oct 23, 2018 | Antibiotic Stewardship, Cardiac Care, Care Coordination, Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Quality Payment Program
Each fall, healthcare professionals in South Dakota trade a day or two of patient rounds and healthcare services for conference sessions and networking. From mid-September well into October, content experts share their insights on a broad range of topics from...
by sfredenburg | Oct 21, 2018 | Cardiac Care, Care Coordination, Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals
As year-end approaches, employers and every individual approaching retirement age is carefully considering the impact of rising healthcare costs and insurance premiums. Decisions related to lifestyle, employment and even medication or recommended health treatment are...
by selsen | Oct 16, 2018 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals
Currently there is an estimated 5.7 million individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia; according to the American Alzheimer’s Association. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports the number of Americans...
by sfredenburg | Oct 16, 2018 | Antibiotic Stewardship, Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Medication Safety
After a stay in the hospital, the majority of patients will transition home while others may enter a skilled nursing facility. Each individual’s journey back to health comes with challenges and requires a coordinated effort of family, friends and healthcare...
by sfredenburg | Aug 22, 2018 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare Acquired Conditions in Nursing Homes, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Home Health, Sepsis, Success Story
Can’t find your car keys? Forgot why you walked into a room? Realized too late you were supposed to meet a friend or colleague? Most everyone has experienced these moments of memory lapse, especially during the back-to-school season when routines are altered and...
by gpqinadmin | Jul 9, 2018 | Cardiac Care, Featured, Home Health
Proper training and education is key to ensuring accurate results as Kelly Haug, RN, Community Home Health, Onaga, KS, witnessed firsthand when abstracting data for the Home Health Cardiovascular Data Registry (HHCDR). Haug noticed missing and abnormal blood pressure...
by selsen | Jun 15, 2018 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Public Observances, QIO News
June 14 – 21, 2018 is National Nursing Assistant’s Week Nursing assistants are key players in the lives of the people in their care and each nursing assistant is called to create an environment of caring for the elder and the worker as well. This week...
by selsen | May 11, 2018 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare Acquired Conditions in Nursing Homes, Home Health, Hospitals
In skilled nursing care centers across the country, each person has a unique story to tell. That’s why Great Plains QIN is excited that the theme of this year’s National Skilled Nursing Care Week (NSNCW), formerly known as National Nursing Home Week, is “Celebrating...
by Keri McDermott | May 7, 2018 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health
The brand new Home Health Quality Improvement’s (HHQI) Best Practice Intervention Package (BPIP) is now available.The Wound BPIP brings together evidence-based practices from leading expert organizations, such as the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN);...
by Keri McDermott | Apr 23, 2018 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Home Health
We recently launched the Home Health Infection Prevention Toolkit. The Toolkit contains resources and best practices to reduce Acute Care Hospitalization (ACH) or Emergency Department (ED) visits related to wound, urinary tract and respiratory infections. The primary...
by sfredenburg | Apr 9, 2018 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Medication Safety
Originally published in the South Dakota Medicine Journal, April 2018 By: Stephan Schroeder, MD, CMD, CMQ Medical Director, South Dakota Foundation for Medical Care The potential for harm in medical care has been known since Hippocrates. The principle of patient...
