Focus 4 Health Learning Series
This Series is intended to jump start or augment your current quality improvement efforts. Participants will connect across the Dakotas for a diverse and collaborative learning experience designed to improve patient outcomes.
October Series | A Culture of Safety
Wednesdays I 12:15 – 12:45 pm (CT)
During this Series, we will discuss strategies to:
- Achieve consistent, safe operations in recognition of high-risk organizational activities
- Establish a blame-free environment where individuals report errors or near misses without fear of reprimand or punishment
- Encourage collaboration at all levels of the organization for solutions to patient safety problems
- Apply tools and resources to address safety concerns
Quick Links
Great Plains QIN Quality Improvement Guide
Podcast: Q-Tips For Your Ears
Community Coalition Listserv – Link to Join
August 2023 | Looking at Immunizations Through a Different Lens
August 2023 Series Comprehensive
- Week One: Angle on Equity | Recording
Week Two: Snapshot of Data and Immunization Information Systems | Recording - Week Three: Zoom in on Vaccine Hesitancy | Recording
- Week Four: Framing Your Delivery of Vaccinations | Recordiing
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)
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: 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
January 2023 Resource List | 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.