by sfredenburg | Jul 19, 2019 | Care Coordination, Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety
Good habits are hard to form and bad habits are hard to break. Even with a strong motive, basic lifestyle changes are a challenge for most people. Individuals newly diagnosed with diabetes face the added layer of monitoring blood sugar levels and/or managing...
by Keri McDermott | Jul 11, 2019 | Antibiotic Stewardship, Cardiac Care, Care Coordination, Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Home Health, Hospitals, Immunizations, Meaningful Use, Medication Safety, Quality Payment Program, Sepsis
The message below was sent to all Great Plains Quality Innovation Network LAN Partners on Monday, July 5. Passing along again in case you missed it. The Great Plains Quality Innovation Network (QIN) is entering a transition phase as the Centers for Medicare &...
by Geneal Roth | Jul 8, 2019 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety
Too often, unused prescription drugs find their way into the wrong hands. According to the 2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 6 million Americans misused controlled prescription drugs with a majority of abused prescription drugs being obtained from family...
by Nikki Divis | Jul 1, 2019 | Antibiotic Stewardship, Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety
Every day, more than 130 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids¹. The misuse of and addiction to opioids – including prescription pain relievers, heroin and synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl – is a serious national crisis that...
by Geneal Roth | Jun 4, 2019 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety
Preventable harm in healthcare is a public health crisis, with estimates placing it as a leading cause of death in the United States.1-4 Many adverse events leading to patient harm could have been prevented if appropriate safety protocols and clinical guidelines were...
by Geneal Roth | May 28, 2019 | Care Coordination, Colorectal Cancer Screening, Diabetes Care, Featured, Healthcare Acquired Conditions in Nursing Homes, Immunizations, Medication Safety, Success Story
Over 200 healthcare professionals and community service providers from across North Dakota met virtually for Quality Health Associates of North Dakota’s Annual Quality Forum on Thursday, May 23, 2019. It’s the first time a virtual format was used for the Forum with...
by Geneal Roth | May 28, 2019 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety
The Joint Commission’s new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) for anticoagulation therapy will become effective July 1, 2019. The intention of the standards is to reduce the risk of medication-related adverse events and applies to all Joint...
by Keri McDermott | May 21, 2019 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety
University of North Carolina (UNC) Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Center for Medication Optimization is creating a care coordination hub to help community pharmacists proactively manage medications for chronically ill patients. Linked below are podcasts, developed by...
by sfredenburg | May 7, 2019 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety
The misuse of prescribed and non-prescribed opioids has led to a rise in deaths and created a ripple effect for increased hospitalization and healthcare costs. Although education, resources, and policies have been developed for prescribing opioid medication,...
by Geneal Roth | May 7, 2019 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety
Many individuals and families in the United States are adversely affected by the opioid crisis, often from misuse of prescription opioids. While the epidemic of opioid misuse, overdose, and death is a multifaceted crisis, changing the management of pain towards...
by Keri McDermott | Apr 30, 2019 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety
Health Leaders recently reported that a new discharge checklist to improve discharge summaries and medication reconciliation implemented at the Cleveland Clinic increased the main campus’ completion rate for medication reconciliation from 88% to 98.7% and increased...
by Geneal Roth | Apr 23, 2019 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety, Public Observances
National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day is Saturday, April 27, 2019. The goal of this event is to provide consumers a safe, convenient and responsible way to dispose of unused or expired prescription drugs. The last Take-Back Day brought in more than 900,000 pounds...
