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 […]

Care Coordination: The Complex Patient (A Behavioral Health Perspective)

This presentation will aim to illicit conversations surrounding complex patients and will highlight the importance of well-informed, multi-level care coordination. Included will be brief touchpoints related to engagement, social needs and burnout. The intended audience is anyone that works in residential, inpatient, primary or emergency care. Access the Recording Objectives: During this Webinar, attendees discussed: […]

Great Plains QIN LAN Event: Isolation and Loneliness I November 14, 2023

The need for solutions to social isolation and loneliness has never been greater. Solutions consist of developing communities and teams that are cognizant of such solutions nurture a social construct of personal empowerment. An organization that values social connectedness, inclusion and a growth mindset will allow their community and staff to thrive in skills of […]

South Dakota Great Plains Quality Care Coalition (GPQCC) Quarterly Meeting

The goal for these meetings will be to focus on needs within South Dakota and how we can work together to improve and implement best practices. Next Meeting: May 16, 2023 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm CT During the May 16 meeting, Jess Danko, MS, RRT, LTC-CIP, will discuss pneumonia and oral health; focused on […]

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 […]