by | Oct 8, 2024 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Quality of Care Transitions
FREE Dementia Dialogues® training is being offered to communities in South Dakota. The program is a 5-module, evidence-informed nationally registered training course designed to educate community members and caregivers for persons who exhibit signs and symptoms of...
by | Oct 6, 2024 | Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
The AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit promotes using health literacy universal precautions—the structuring of health information and services in ways that everyone can understand and use. Health literacy universal precautions should be used by all...
by | Oct 4, 2024 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
The Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health In Nursing Facilities has a few new trainings offering ACCME and/or NAB Credit available throughout October. All of the trainings are free to attend. Unlock vital mental health skills and join the October training events...
by | Oct 1, 2024 | Care Coordination, Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Immunizations, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety
With respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and influenza on the rise during fall and winter, annual vaccinations are crucial. These viruses pose significant health risks, especially for older adults and those with weakened immune systems. Vaccination is a proven way to...
by | Sep 27, 2024 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
The Great Plains QIN team strives to improve healthcare quality and patient outcomes. We work with partners and community coalitions to identify areas for improvement, which include reducing avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions, and high utilizers of the...
by | Sep 25, 2024 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Public Observances, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
October is Health Literacy Month, a time when we can work together to integrate and expand the mission of health literacy – to build a world where our collective efforts will lead to health equity, where all people can attain positive health outcomes. Let’s commit to...
by | Sep 20, 2024 | Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
National Falls Prevention Week is here; September 23 – 27, 2024. a great opportunity to offer some falls-related tips for your patients and loved ones. Falls Prevention Awareness Week reaches millions of older adults across the country with a simple message: You...
by | Sep 18, 2024 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Dementia is a condition in which a person has significant difficulty with daily functioning because of problems with thinking and memory. Dementia is not a single disease; it’s an overall term — like heart disease — that covers a wide range of specific medical...
by | Sep 16, 2024 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Melissa Waldner, RN, BSN, clinical nurse educator at Avera St. Luke’s Hospital in Aberdeen, South Dakota, highlighted their efforts to improve compliance of the sepsis bundle implementation during a recent Webinar, Sepsis in the Dakotas: Prevention,...
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by | Sep 12, 2024 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Cardiac Care, Care Coordination, Covid-19, Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Immunizations, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Opioids, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
The Great Plains QIN team strives to improve healthcare quality and patient outcomes. We work with partners and community coalitions to identify areas for improvement, which include reducing avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions, including those caused by...
