by Keri McDermott | Jan 19, 2022 | Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Wednesday, January 26, 2022, 1:00 pm CT Register Today Healthcare providers and stakeholders are invited to join Kepro for a Beneficiary and Family Centered Care Quality Improvement Organization (BFCC-QIO) Program webinar. Kepro is the BFCC-QIO for 29 states,...
by Keri McDermott | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Jenifer Lauckner is the newest member of the Great Plains Quality Innovation Network team; she will be supporting nursing homes and communities as a Quality Improvement Advisor. My work experience…I worked at St. Andrew’s Health Center, a Critical Access Hospital,...
by Keri McDermott | Jan 17, 2022 | Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Putting Infection Prevention into Everyday Practice February 22, 2022 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CT To stop the spread of infections, everyone working in a healthcare facility needs to have a foundational knowledge of infection prevention and must be ready to implement basic...
by Keri McDermott | Jan 17, 2022 | Covid-19, Events, Featured, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
January 25, 2022 | 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. CT Burnout is rarely an individual issue alone. This presentation will discuss risks related to caretaker/provider health during times of crises as well as models for both individual and organizational wellness. Register...
by Keri McDermott | Jan 17, 2022 | Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality
A Weekly Education and Sharing Session for North Dakota and South Dakota Nursing Homes Thursdays @ 4:00 CT/3:00 MT | Beginning January 20, 2022 Join Us. We will help your home access and understand new COVID-19 recommendation and guidance. An office hours format will...
by Keri McDermott | Jan 14, 2022 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Great Plains QIN updated the GPQIN Electronic Vaccination Tracking Log to include field entries for the COVID-19 boosters. This Excel tracking log was designed to be used as a “Quick Review” for the MDS person and/or infection preventionist to access a listing of...
by Keri McDermott | Jan 14, 2022 | CMS News, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated it’s Nursing Home Resource Center with two new informational products. As of January 6, 2022, the Nursing Home Visitation FAQs have been updated to provide additional guidance about visitation...
by Keri McDermott | Jan 11, 2022 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Submitted by Carley Swanson, RN, BSN Learning and Development Specialist for Evidence-Based Programming and Community Education at Sanford Medical Center Fargo Often times communities may find their access to certain resources are limited. Perhaps there is a desire to...
by Keri McDermott | Dec 29, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Project Firstline aims to provide all healthcare workers with the infection control knowledge they need to protect their patients and themselves. To improve access to Project Firstline materials for Spanish-speaking healthcare workers, a selection of content and...
by Keri McDermott | Dec 28, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Rapid Increase of Omicron Variant Infections in the United States: Management of Healthcare Personnel with SARS-CoV-2 Infection or Exposure Distributed via the CDC Health Alert Network | Friday, December 24, 2021 Summary Due to the increased transmissibility of the...
by Keri McDermott | Dec 28, 2021 | Covid-19, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Friday, January 21 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. CT Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to: 1) Discuss the clinical features of long-haul COVID 2) Describe the prevalence of long-haul COVID 3) Understand how vaccinating against COVID reduces...
by Keri McDermott | Dec 28, 2021 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Effective communication is critical to ensuring understanding, empowering patients and providing high-quality care. A language access plan can help ensure that an organization provides high quality and appropriate language services. A language access plan can also...
