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 | Oct 1, 2024 | Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Medication Safety, Opioids, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
This recorded webinar series and podcasts is a collaboration of all of the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations and provides strategies, interventions, and targeted solutions to ensure access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD)...
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, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
Reducing Emergency Department (ED) use is a multi-faceted, multi-system endeavor. The best first or next step you can do is assure that you have access to and are effectively utilizing your State’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) program. North Dakota Health...
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...
by | Sep 11, 2024 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Care Coordination, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
North Dakota State University (NDSU) and the Alzheimer’s Association invite you to a free lunch and learn series on Alzheimer’s and other dementias throughout October and November. See the schedule of sessions and times below: Session 1: Understanding...
by | Sep 11, 2024 | Care Coordination, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
One of South Dakota Department of Health’s guiding principles is to achieve health equity in all communities, while working toward the mission of working together to promote, protect, and improve health. The Department is proud to announce the Nexus SD Implementation...
by | Sep 10, 2024 | Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Medication Safety, Opioids, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition
A new analysis highlights the connection between smoking and opioid use. Data from the AHRQ Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and the National Health Interview Survey reveal that smokers are significantly more likely to use prescription opioids than non-smokers....
