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COVID-19 Pandemic – Assessing Nursing Home Readiness: Advice from the CDC
Is Your Nursing Home Ready to Handle the Demands of the COVID-19 Pandemic? In this session, CDC staff will discuss the COVID-19 Infection Control Assessment and Response (ICAR) tool that was developed to support nursing homes preparing for coronavirus disease 2019...
CMS COVID-19 Stakeholder Engagement Calls – July 2020
CMS hosts varied recurring stakeholder engagement sessions to share information related to the agency’s response to COVID-19. These sessions are open to members of the healthcare community and are intended to provide updates, share best practices among peers, and...
Learning Community Opportunity: Accelerate Telemedicine Implementation for Ambulatory Providers
Learning Opportunity: A 10-week, virtual peer-to-peer learning community called Telemedicine Hack. Although telemedicine use has grown exponentially during the COVID-19 pandemic, many ambulatory providers still lack the knowledge and skills needed to implement...
CMS/CDC Webinar: Establishing an Infection Prevention Program in a Nursing Home, With an Emphasis on COVID-19
Overview Participants of this webinar will learn to identify the key components of an infection prevention program in the nursing home setting; describe the best-practice strategies needed to establish a program; and understand the key elements necessary for ongoing...
DePrescribing in the Elderly Webinar – Materials Available
Want to test your knowledge about medications that are potentially inappropriate in older adults and learn more about polypharmacy and associated risks. You can access the July 8 DePrescribing in the Elderly Webinar presentation and recording on our Web site. Access...
Partnership to Advance Tribal Health – Celebrating Progress and Successes
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Henry Ford Through the Partnership to Advance Tribal Health (PATH), Great Plains Quality Innovation Network has had the privilege of partnering with 5 Indian Health Services...
Upcoming UND Geriatric TeleECHO Session – Beyond POLST Session
Access to geriatric care improves the quality of life for patients and residents in our communities. Great Plains Quality Innovation Network is partnering with the University of North Dakota to improve access to care for patients with complex conditions in...
De-Prescribing in the Elderly Webinar TOMORROW – Get Registered!
Attend our July 8 Webinar, De-Prescribing in the Elderly, to test your knowledge about medications that are potentially inappropriate in older adults and learn about polypharmacy and associated risks. Did You Know?? According to the Institute for Healthcare...
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Webinar Invite: De-Prescribing in the Elderly [July 8, 2020]
Did you know? According to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the LOWN Institute; every day, 750 individuals [65+) in the United States are hospitalized due to serious side effects from one or more medications. Over the last decade, older people sought...
New CDC Program Uses Lifestyle Coach, Group Support to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
According to national statistics, likely one-third of individuals, older than age 18, have prediabetes and are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes. More than eight in 10 of those individuals do not know their risk. Individuals at risk for type 2 diabetes may be...