by | Jan 24, 2023 | Cardiac Care, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
The “Know Diabetes by Heart™” Campaign aims to raise awareness about the link between diabetes and heart disease and to provide education and resources to help people with diabetes lower their risk of heart disease. Type 2 diabetes is a serious condition...
by | Jan 24, 2023 | Cardiac Care, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Public Observances, Quality Care Coalition
In the United States, approximately 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur each year and less than 10% of these victims survive¹. Fortunately, survival rates can be significantly increased by a simple, yet lifesaving technique – CPR (Cardiopulmonary...
by | Jan 20, 2023 | CMS News, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is pleased to invite the public to attend the upcoming webinar “From Data to Action: How CMS and its Stakeholders are Addressing Inequities in Healthcare.” Join the discussion of the CMS Health Equity Framework...
by | 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 | Jan 17, 2023 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety, Opioids, Quality Care Coalition
According to the CDC, 107,375 people in the United States died of drug overdoses and drug poisonings in the 12-month period ending in January 2022. A staggering 67 percent of those deaths involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Some of these deaths were attributed...
by | 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 | 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 | Jan 10, 2023 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Medication Safety, Opioids, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
If an individual is thinking about treatment for a substance abuse disorder, he or she is already making a move towards recovery. Fortunately, there are many programs and treatment centers available to help. More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses between...
by | 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 | Jan 5, 2023 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
The Transformational Project and Sanford Health are presenting the Midwest Gender Identity Summit. Educating, Empowering & Supporting the transgender community through the lens of healthcare. This one day event will highlight the needs of transgender patients in...
