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Adapting to a Changing Public Health and Healthcare Environment
Evidence-based decision making to inform disease prevention and control The global impact of COVID-19, increasing health disparities, and the growth of science-based interventions demand the use of proven strategies to provide the opportunity for the health of every...
Best Practice Briefs: Integrating Behavioral Health in Primary Care Practice | August 2, 2021
August 2, 2021 | 12:00 pm CT Whether acute or chronic in nature, physical conditions impact mental health and vice versa. Federally qualified health centers across the Dakotas utilize an integrated care model to identify patients in need of services and engage the...
Strengthening the Body to Fight Disease
August is National Immunization Awareness Month The body has a natural ability to adapt and protect against injury and disease. Medical practitioners and researchers have spent centuries identifying ways to enhance and strengthen these built-in healing properties....
Unite Us Expanding Across South Dakota
Unite South Dakota is a community data exchange of health and social care providers, sponsored by CyncHealth. Partners in the network are connected through a shared technology platform, Unite Us, which enables them to send and receive electronic referrals, address...
Protecting the Comforts of Home
After a major health crisis or injury, many individuals struggle with daily life activities because their home lacks the proper safety and access features. The recently-formed Home Modification and Aging in Place (HMAIP) Awareness Project, a collaboration of the...
New Minority Health Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) – Now Available
New Minority Health Social Vulnerability Index Launched by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the HHS Office of Minority Health Systemic socioeconomic inequities like poverty, poor housing conditions, and lack of access to quality health care, lead to...
Equip Your Team and Improve Patient Care with New TeamSTEPPS Video Toolkit
Provide communication tools for your team and better care for your patients with the new TeamSTEPPS Video Toolkit, a free resource brought to you by AHA Team Training and CDC’s Project Firstline. The toolkit has been designed to help improve teamwork in health care...
Celebrating Our COVID-19 Staff Vaccination Ambassadors
Great Plains Quality Innovation Network launched a COVID-19 Staff Vaccination Ambassador Program to support COVID-19 vaccination efforts and recognize community-based organizations, healthcare providers and nursing homes with high staff vaccination rates throughout...
Infection Control: Ensuring Safety as Patients and Providers
Every day, patients get infections in health care facilities while they are being treated for something else. These infections can have devastating emotional, financial and medical effects. Worst of all, they can be deadly. The CDC offers resources and tips that can...
CDC Resources: Revamped Drug Overdose and Opioid Websites and Non-Opioid Tools for Pain Management
The CDC Drug Overdose and Opioid websites have both been revamped! ⇒The Drug Overdose Website now features: All drug, nonfatal and fatal overdose data Funded recipient information, resources and tools Portal to all of CDC’s overdose prevention subsites (Opioids, Drug...