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Medicine Wheel Village Vaccination Rate Success
Medicine Wheel Village, located on the Cheyenne River reservation, in Eagle Butte, SD, has achieved impressive success in ensuring staff and residents are up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters; currently at 100 percent. Medicine Wheel Village...
Register For the 2022 – 2023 Million Hearts Learning Lab
The Million Hearts® Learning Lab is hosting a bi-monthly learning series focused on cardiovascular disease prevention and management. The series is open to clinicians, quality improvement and other interested staff across the country, but with a focus on community...
Reducing Falls and Improving Quality of Life in North Dakota
The consequences of falls are substantial, including serious injury, loss of independent living and limits on physical activity. In 2019, falls were the second leading cause of injury-related deaths in North Dakota and the leading cause of injury-related deaths in...
Great Plains QIN Webinar: Removing Stumbling Blocks to Prevent Falls I September 19, 2022
A simple stumble or slip can result in a serious injury or even death. Individuals 65 and older are at a higher risk for injury from a fall, which most often happens at home or at a residential care facility. Encouraging participation in evidence-based programs can...
Bivalent Booster Update & Upcoming CDC COCA Call
The new U.S. COVID-19 boosters are combination, or “Bivalent,” shots. They contain half the original vaccine recipe and half for the protection against the newest omicron versions, called BA.4 and BA.5, that are considered the most contagious yet. The bivalent...
Fit & Strong! An Evidence-Based Fall Prevention Program
Fit & Strong! is an evidence-based physical activity/behavior change intervention that has been successfully implemented in multiple community-based settings. Fit & Strong! blends a multiple component exercise program with group problem solving/education using...
Meet Darleen Gangl – A Two-Time Sepsis Survivor
Meet Darleen Gangl; she and her husband, Brad, live in Bottineau, North Dakota. She is an avid vintage Barbie collector and enjoys researching her family tree. Darleen is also a two-time sepsis survivor. Thirteen years ago, Darleen was diagnosed with necrotizing...
Welcome To Our Team I Susan Wilcox, RN
We are excited to introduce our newest Great Plains QIN team members; Carrie Sorenson, PharmD, Carolyne Tufte, LPN, Stephanie Hanson, RN, BSN and Susan Wilcox, RN. These four individuals will serve as Quality Improvement Advisors and will support healthcare partners...
Do You Have Hitchhikers in your Building? Infection Control & Prevention I September 7, 2022
Bacteria hitchhike and latch on to surfaces and hands, so reducing this risk, must be part of an organization's Infection Prevention Control program. Infections in our older adult population have high mortality rates and contaminated environmental surfaces is often a...
Sepsis Awareness Month Toolkit I Say Sepsis. Save Lives
One of the most important actions we can do in honor of Sepsis Awareness Month is to educate yourself and others about the different sepsis symptoms so that you know what to look out for. You could potentially save a life! Sepsis is the body’s overwhelming and toxic...