by | Dec 8, 2023 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition
Research shows that many hospital readmissions are avoidable. Yet, in 2022, about 75% of hospitals still incurred readmission penalties. In 2021, only 1 in 5 Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) were awarded payments from the SNF VBP (Value-Based Purchasing) Program...
by | Nov 30, 2023 | Antibiotic Stewardship, Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition
Clostridioides difficile is formerly known as Clostridium difficile – and often called C. difficile or C. diff. – is a germ (bacterium) that causes diarrhea and colitis (an inflammation of the colon). Most cases of C. diff infection occur while an...
by | Nov 28, 2023 | Cardiac Care, Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition
The Great Plains Quality Innovation Network helps providers with the prevention and management of chronic diseases by preventing cardiovascular events, promoting tobacco cessation, improving the management of diabetes to decrease complications and identifying...
by | Nov 27, 2023 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety
Natural disasters, like floods, storms, and earthquakes, can strike at any time without warning and disrupt our normal lives. Being prepared can help protect your organization, those you care for and your community during an emergency. The Centers for Medicare &...
by | Nov 27, 2023 | Chronic Disease Self-Management, Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Hospitals, Immunizations, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition
Pneumonia is the second most common cause of infection in nursing facilities. A seasonal increase in pneumonia occurs due to influenza and unfortunately, many nursing home residents do not survive. The most common pneumonia pathogens in the nursing facility are...
by | Nov 26, 2023 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Advance care planning (ACP) is a process that involves making decisions about your future health care. It typically involves discussions between individuals, their families and their healthcare providers to understand and document a person’s values, preferences...
by | Nov 20, 2023 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
The social and economic conditions of the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship and age affect a wide range of health, functioning and quality-of-life outcomes. White House and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),...
by | Nov 20, 2023 | Antibiotic Stewardship, Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast
Every 20 seconds, another person in the United States will be diagnosed with sepsis. Sepsis is the body’s extreme response to an infection. It is life-threatening, and without timely treatment, sepsis can rapidly lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death. Sepsis...
by | Nov 20, 2023 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
What does Culture Change look like for you? For your organization? “I have spent a great deal of my work time the last two months researching and reading articles and studies related to behavioral health in the emergency department. Truth be told, I struggled to...
by | Nov 20, 2023 | Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition
According to the National Kidney Foundation, chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects 37 million people, or 15 percent, of adults in the United States. Diabetes and high blood pressure are responsible for two-thirds of cases. The condition is usually asymptomatic until...
