by Keri McDermott | Jan 20, 2023 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
The bivalent booster is the most recent version of the COVID-19 vaccine. It contains both the original vaccine strain [of the virus] and a strain derived from the BA.5 omicron variant, which is currently the most active in the United States, so that we can maximize...
by Keri McDermott | Jan 16, 2023 | Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Improvement (QI) Voices: Improving COVID-19 Outcomes in Nursing Homes Across America is an audio series that gives you a closer look at the projects and the people who are improving health care quality and...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 16, 2023 | CMS News, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
The first 2023 National Stakeholder Call with the CMS Administrator will provide an opportunity to learn more about how you can partner with CMS to help implement its Strategic Plan and key initiatives. January 24, 2023 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT Click Here to...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 10, 2023 | Covid-19, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Immunizations, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Q Tip Podcast
As COVID-19 hits its three-year mark, we have seen nursing homes take some of the biggest hits of the virus with their patients and their staff. Nursing homes homes are now able to enroll in CDC’s COVID-19 Vaccination Program to obtain single-dose vials of a...
by Kelsey Olson | Jan 10, 2023 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
2022 was a productive and promising year for Alzheimer’s research, including discoveries related to the causes, risk factors and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Below are five important things we learned about Alzheimer’s in 2022: Alzheimer’s...
by Keri McDermott | Dec 27, 2022 | Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition
Join the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday January 5, 2023 at 2:00 pm CT for a National Nursing Home Stakeholder Call. Thursday January 5, 2023 I 2:00 pm CT Long-term care providers, facility...
by Kelsey Olson | Dec 27, 2022 | Cardiac Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety
Several studies have shown that the holiday season – notably the last week of December and early January – see the most out of- hospital heart attacks and cardiac deaths. A “Christmas holiday effect” showing elevated cardiovascular mortality over the Christmas...
by Keri McDermott | Dec 21, 2022 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Opioids, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Substance abuse: the use of illegal drugs or the use of prescription or over-the-counter drugs or alcohol for purposes other than those for which they are meant to be used, or in excessive amounts. Substance abuse may lead to social, physical, emotional and...
by Kelsey Olson | Dec 21, 2022 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
It’s that time of year again – when we start thinking of New Year’s resolutions. If you were thinking about making health related resolutions, here’s why we want to encourage you to work at achieving those diet and exercise resolutions! Adopt a Healthy Diet:...
by Kelsey Olson | Dec 13, 2022 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) invites you to view their recent webcast, which provides an overview of the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS®) Surveys. The Webcast was offered on November 7, 2022 – During the one hour session,...
