by Keri McDermott | Jul 27, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
I am urging all Americans to help slow the spread of health misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Health misinformation is a serious threat to public health. It can cause confusion, sow mistrust, harm people’s health, and undermine public health...
by Keri McDermott | Jul 27, 2021 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Pathways to Safer Opioid Use is an interactive training that promotes the appropriate, safe and effective use of opioids to manage chronic pain. It’s based on the opioid-related recommendations in the National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention (ADE Action...
by Keri McDermott | Jul 27, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Are you struggling to have productive conversations with family members, loved ones and employees on the benefit of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine? Have you relayed data and facts, used pressure tactics and mandates and still hitting road blocks? If so, have you...
by Keri McDermott | Jul 27, 2021 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
August 2, 2021 | 12:00 pm CT Whether acute or chronic in nature, physical conditions impact mental health and vice versa. Federally qualified health centers across the Dakotas utilize an integrated care model to identify patients in need of services and engage the...
by Keri McDermott | Jul 15, 2021 | Featured, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Provide communication tools for your team and better care for your patients with the new TeamSTEPPS Video Toolkit, a free resource brought to you by AHA Team Training and CDC’s Project Firstline. The toolkit has been designed to help improve teamwork in health care...
by Keri McDermott | Jul 13, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Great Plains Quality Innovation Network launched a COVID-19 Staff Vaccination Ambassador Program to support COVID-19 vaccination efforts and recognize community-based organizations, healthcare providers and nursing homes with high staff vaccination rates throughout...
by Keri McDermott | Jul 13, 2021 | Featured, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Every day, patients get infections in health care facilities while they are being treated for something else. These infections can have devastating emotional, financial and medical effects. Worst of all, they can be deadly. The CDC offers resources and tips that can...
by Keri McDermott | Jul 12, 2021 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Opioids, Quality Care Coalition
The CDC Drug Overdose and Opioid websites have both been revamped! ⇒The Drug Overdose Website now features: All drug, nonfatal and fatal overdose data Funded recipient information, resources and tools Portal to all of CDC’s overdose prevention subsites (Opioids, Drug...
by Keri McDermott | Jul 1, 2021 | Antibiotic Stewardship, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality
AHRQ’s new Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care offers a step-by-step approach to help facilities start or revitalize an antibiotic stewardship program. Using the Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making, facilities can identify critical time periods...
by Keri McDermott | Jun 30, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Transcending COVID-19 Vaccine Barriers: Strategies to Increase Confidence and Acceptance The North Dakota State University Center for Immunization Research and Education (CIRE) hosted a free virtual conference, June 16-17, for healthcare providers and public health...
by Keri McDermott | Jun 28, 2021 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, staff in nursing homes have been providing ongoing care to our nation’s most vulnerable. It’s on trusted messengers like you to make sure we’re reaching people who need to be protected from the COVID-19 virus. Building vaccine...
by Keri McDermott | Jun 25, 2021 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
June 30, 2021 | 11:30 a.m. CT Culture is essential in shaping our individual experiences and health. Surprisingly, little attention has been paid to the interplay between culture and dementia caregiving. Dementia support and services are not adequately tailored to...
