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by | Jun 5, 2024 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, 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 | Jun 4, 2024 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
In North Dakota and South Dakota, sepsis is the #1 admission and readmission diagnosis. With sepsis, time is of the essence. For every hour of delayed treatment, the risk of death increases by between 4 and 9 percent.¹ Experts say that 80 percent of sepsis deaths...
by | May 31, 2024 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
Reducing readmissions matters to both hospitals and nursing homes. With readmission measures that can impact the bottom line for both, strategic partnerships are paramount. For the FY 2025 Program year, the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Value Based Payment Program...
by | May 28, 2024 | Antibiotic Stewardship, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Opioids, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
Addressing the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of dying patients includes management of their pain. But how have increasing concerns and policies that target opioid misuse impacted their pain management options? The American Medical Association...
by | May 16, 2024 | Behavioral Health Outcomes, Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
Commercial tobacco use is still the number one cause of preventable death and individuals with behavioral health conditions and substance abuse disorders have significantly higher rates of tobacco use in comparison to the overall population. Tobacco Use Disorder is...
by | May 12, 2024 | Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Events, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
Care of the patient living with end stage renal disease can be intimidating due to the complex interplay of dietary and fluid restrictions, medications, vascular access care, and dialysis treatments, often in the setting of other comorbid medical conditions. It is...
by | May 9, 2024 | Antibiotic Stewardship, Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Covid-19, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Hospitals, Medication Safety, Nursing Home Quality, Opioids, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
An analysis of outpatient antibiotic prescribing in the United States from 2017 through 2021 was recently published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. The study shows that rates of inappropriate prescribing returned to baseline levels following a brief drop at the...
by | May 9, 2024 | Cardiac Care, Care Coordination, Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Health Equity, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Patient Safety, Q Tip Podcast, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
Since May is High Blood Pressure Education Month, what better way to teach your patients about their blood pressure than to implement self-measured blood pressure (SMBP) monitoring in your practice? The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) for...
by | May 9, 2024 | Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Home Health, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
May is Older Americans’ Month. The Alzheimer’s Association shares the following evidence on risk factors to promote healthy aging and reduce the risk for cognitive decline and dementia as we age. There are still many unanswered questions and significant...
by | May 6, 2024 | Care Coordination, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Nursing Home Quality, 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, and high utilizers of the...
