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Recommitting to Antimicrobial Stewardship in North Dakota Post Pandemic
Antibiotic stewardship is the effort to measure and improve how antibiotics are prescribed by clinicians and used by patients. Emily Perry is an antibiotic stewardship pharmacist within the Center for Collaboration and Advancement in Pharmacy (CAP). Perry is less than...
Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Best Practices to Reduce Preventable Hospital Admissions
Long-term care (LTC) facility residents often experience potentially avoidable hospital transfers, which are expensive, disruptive and disorienting for frail elders and people with disabilities. LTC facility residents are especially vulnerable to the risks that...
Health Equity & Access for Rural Dually Eligible Individuals (HEARD) Toolkit | Feb 2 Webinar
Dually eligible individuals covered under Medicare and Medicaid who live in rural areas struggle to access the services, care coordination, and integrated care programs they need. Health Management Associates (HMA) conducted multi-state roundtable discussions with...
Friday Focus 4 Health: February 2023 Series – Register Today!
The Friday Focus 4 Health February Series begins on February 3, 2023 Reducing Avoidable Hospital Emergency Department Visits | 12:00 - 12:30 pm CT Blood Pressure Control | 12:30 - 1:00 p.m. CT [symple_button...
Join NDSU CIRE and Dr. Paul Offit for a Webinar on February 23
The North Dakota State University Center for Immunization Research and Education (CIRE) welcomes Dr. Paul Offit as the fourth guest presenter in Bringing the Experts to You: A Webinar Series on Vaccines. Thursday, February 23, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm CST [symple_button...
Cheri Fast and Jessica Danko Earn CBIC Certification in Infection Control
Cheri Fast and Jessica Danko, project managers for the South Dakota Foundation for Medical Care, are among the first in the nation to be awarded the CBIC Long-Term Care Certification in Infection Control. Fast and Danko are innovative leaders in long-term care. This...
Type 2 Diabetes and Heart Failure Are a Troubling Pair: Know Diabetes by Heart Campaign
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 that can lead...
Be The Beat: Save a Life I American Heart Month
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...
Webinar: How CMS and Its Stakeholders are Addressing Inequities in Healthcare I February 28, 2023
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...
COVID-19 Bivalent Boosters: Do They Work?
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...