Focus 4 Health Learning Series
Our Focus 4 Health Series was designed to help jump start or augment your current quality improvement efforts. Participants connected across the Dakotas for a diverse and collaborative learning experience designed to improve patient outcomes. Topics include immunizations, chronic kidney disease, opioids, diabetes health, communications skills and more.
Access the Series recordings and resources below.
If you have questions or we can help in any way, please contact a member of our team.
Quick Links
Great Plains QIN Quality Improvement Guide
Podcast: Q-Tips For Your Ears
Community Coalition Listserv – Link to Join
November 2023 | TeamSTEPPS® – Improving Communication and Teamwork Skills
October 2023 | A Culture of Safety
August 2023 | Looking at Immunizations Through a Different Lens
July 2023 | Multi-Visit Patient (MVPs) - Reducing Preventable ED Visits
- Week One: Multi-Visit Patient (MVP) Method & Implicit Bias Connection I Recording
- Week Two: Utilizing Community Health Workers (CHW) to reduce MVPs | Recording
- Week Three: Reducing Avoidable ED Visits by Working Together in the Community | Recording
- Week Four: Coordinating Care, Communication, and Trust is a Must to Help MVPs | Recording
June 2023 | Chronic Kidney Disease… Prevent, Manage, and Protect Kidney Health
May 2023 | Up Your Protection From Infections
April 2023 | Life's Essential 8
March 2023 | Strategies for Opioid Misuse & Clostridium Difficile Infections (CDI)
March Series Comprehensive Resource List
Strategies for Opioid Misuse
- Week One: Awareness of Prescription Opioid Misuse: Presentation I Recording
- Week Two: Naloxone Training and Education: Presentation I Recording
- Week Three: Pathways for Safer Opioid Use: Presentation I Recording
- Week Four: Diversion: Recording
Clostridioides difficile Infection (CDI)
- Week One: Patient Safety – C. difficile: Presentation I Recording
- Week Two: Risk and Detect: Presentation I Recording
- Week Three: Spread: Presentation I Recording
- Week Four: Prevent, Educate, Antibiotic Stewardship: Presentation I Recording
February 2023 | Reducing Avoidable Emergency Department Visits and Blood Pressure Control
Reducing Avoidable Emergency Department Visits
- Week One: Reducing Avoidable Emergency Department Visits: Presentation | Recording
- Week Two: Communication During Hand-Off’s’: Presentation I Recording
- Week Three: Communication Strategies: Presentation I Recording
- Week Four: Infections, Falls, Medications, Success Measurement & Celebrating: Presentation I Recording
Blood Pressure Control
- Week One: Blood Pressure Control: Presentation I Recording
- Week Two: Prevention: Presentation I Recording
- Week Three: Target BP: Presentation I Recording
- Week Four: Taking a BP Accurately: Presentation I Recording
January 2023 | Opioids and Adverse Drug Events
Opioids
- Week One: Safe Opioid Prescribing Practices: Presentation | Recording
- Week Two: The Pharmacist’s Role: Presentation | Recording
- Week Three: Opioid Misuse and Adverse Drug Events: Presentation | Recording
- Week Four: A Patient-Centered Approach: Presentation | Recording
Adverse Drug Events
- Week One: Strategies to Prevent Adverse Drug Events: Presentation I Recording
- Week Two: Tactics to Reduce ADE’s with Prescribing & Transcribing of Medications: Presentation I Recording
- Week Three: Dispensing and Administration: Presentation I Recording
- Week Four: How Care Coordination Can Help in Preventing ADE’s: Presentation I Recording
Series Launch Resources - December 6, 2022
- PDF Documents: Get Adobe® Reader®
Great Plains Quality Care Coalition
Our Vision: Through collaboration and partnership, we aspire to make healthcare in the Dakotas the best in the nation. We have partnered with committed nursing homes, community leaders and healthcare organizations to improve the care in our communities. Better together.