Friday Focus 4 Health: January Series I Adverse Drug Events

Our Friday Focus 4 Health Series is intended to jump start or augment your current quality improvement efforts. Participants will connect across the Dakotas for a diverse and collaborative learning experience designed to improve patient outcomes. This January Series on Adverse Drug Events will continue your education on the data, clinical application, communication & facilitation, […]

Friday Focus 4 Health March Series: Strategies for Opioid Misuse

The Friday Focus 4 Health March Series begins on March 10, 2023 Strategies for Opioid Misuse | 12:00 - 12:30 pm CT Register Today Our Friday Focus 4 Health Series is intended to jump start or augment your current quality improvement efforts. Participants will connect across the Dakotas for a diverse and collaborative learning experience designed […]

Friday Focus 4 Health March Series: Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI)

The Friday Focus 4 Health March Series begins on March 10, 2023 Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI)  | 12:30 - 1:00 p.m. CT Register Today Our Friday Focus 4 Health Series is intended to jump start or augment your current quality improvement efforts. Participants will connect across the Dakotas for a diverse and collaborative learning experience […]

Friday Focus 4 Health: July Series I Multi-Visit Patients (MVPs) – Reducing Preventable ED Visits

The Friday Focus 4 Health July Series begins on July 7, 2023 Multi-Visit Patient (MVP) - Reducing Preventable ED Visits | 12:15 – 12:45 pm CT Our Friday Focus 4 Health Series is intended to jump start or augment your current quality improvement efforts. Participants will connect across the Dakotas for a diverse and collaborative […]

Friday Focus 4 Health: August Series | Looking at Immunizations Through A Different Lens

The Friday Focus 4 Health August Series begins on August 4, 2023 Looking at Immunizations Through a Different Lens | 12:15 – 12:45 pm CT Our Friday Focus 4 Health Series is intended to jump start or augment your current quality improvement efforts. Participants will connect across the Dakotas for a diverse and collaborative learning experience […]

November Focus 4 Health Series | TeamSTEPPS® – Improving Communication and Teamwork Skills

Join our November Focus 4 Health Series: TeamSTEPPS. During this Series, we will discuss TeamSTEPPS, an evidenced-based set of teamwork tools that are aimed at optimizing patient outcomes by improving communication and teamwork skills among healthcare teams, including patients and family caregivers. Objectives: Examine the benefits and tools of the AHRQ TeamSTEPPS program Apply TeamSTEPPS […]

Great Plains QIN Webinar: Building Bridges and Enhancing Care Together: Leveraging Partnerships for Improved Services to Native American Patients | January 23, 2024 

This presentation explored the unique aspects of healthcare delivery for patients receiving care through Indian Health Service and Tribal Healthcare organizations, including federal policy, referral mechanisms and reimbursement structures as well as legal and regulatory considerations. We will examine the potential for partnerships between private sector and Indian Health Service/Tribal Healthcare organizations and discuss how […]

Great Plains QIN Webinar: It’s All About the Heart; Opportunities for Cardiac Care in the Dakotas | February 27, 2024

Watch this Webinar, hosted by Great Plains QIN, to learn cardiac rehab services in the Dakotas; results from a cardiac rehab environmental scan will be shared. Viewers will be better able to recognize opportunities to increase the quality of care that cardiac patients receive and the communities they live in. Presenters highlighted South Dakota's Cardiac […]

Great Plains QIN LAN Event: Using Plain Language – The CLAS-y Compliant Style of Healthcare Conversations and Communication | April 23, 2024

Over the past five decades, healthcare providers and healthcare systems have been tasked with providing increasingly complex medical care in a more equitable, cost-efficient, time-efficient – not to mention regulation-compliant – manner. During this Webinar, Dr. Kay Miller Temple offered information on how thinking about melding Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) goals with the […]