by | Jun 19, 2023 | Covid-19, Diabetes Care, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Home Health, Hospitals, Immunizations, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Opioids, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition
Looking for health care information and quality resources? We added a few more episodes to our podcast series: Q-Tips For Your Ears. This podcast is designed for everyone – healthcare professionals, patients and family members; sharing basic healthcare information on...
by | Jun 15, 2023 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Is your organization meeting the National CLAS Standard 3? Standard 3 | Recruit, promote, and support a culturally and linguistically diverse governance, leadership, and workforce that are responsive to the population in the service area. Purpose | Standard 3 helps...
by | Jun 14, 2023 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
A Center of Excellence is a team of skilled knowledge workers whose mission is to provide organizations with best practices around a particular area of interest. The Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilities (COE-NF) provides free training,...
by | Jun 12, 2023 | Cardiac Care, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Nearly half of US adults are living with high blood pressure (BP) – a leading risk factor for heart attack and stroke. Accurate BP measurement is vital to improving BP control, as inaccuracies can lead to improper screening, diagnosis and management. To aid healthcare...
by | Jun 12, 2023 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
The Longest Day is the day with the most light — the summer solstice. On June 21, thousands of participants from across the world come together to fight the darkness of Alzheimer’s through an activity of their choice. “The longest day.” Every day can potentially...
by | Jun 12, 2023 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Home Health, Hospitals, Quality Care Coalition
Is your organization meeting the National CLAS Standard 2? Standard 2 | Advance and sustain organizational governance and leadership that promotes CLAS and health equity through policy, practices, and allocated resources. Purpose | Standard 2 helps to ensure that CLAS...
by | Jun 11, 2023 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
Continuing the Conversation: A webinar series focused on the interdependent components to achieving health equity. We will feature leaders and subject matter experts across the Dakotas to share their expertise, personal experiences, best practices and application...
by | Jun 11, 2023 | Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Quality Care Coalition
Every person deserves the opportunity for a full, healthy life. Addressing the drivers of health disparities, including the social determinants of health, structural racism, and rural health inequities, is the only way to truly achieve equitable health and well-being...
by | Jun 8, 2023 | Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Home Health, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Public Observances, Quality Care Coalition
Quit Week is making a return in North Dakota for its fourth consecutive year, urging individuals who use commercial tobacco and alternative nicotine products to designate June 11-17 as their period to embrace a Tobacco-Free lifestyle in 2023. Studies show that...
by | Jun 6, 2023 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Is your organization meeting the Principal Standard for CLAS? Standard 1 | Provide effective, equitable, understandable, respectful, and quality care and services that are responsive to diverse cultural health beliefs and practices, preferred languages, health...