Great Plains Quality Innovation Network
Quality Experts
Our team of subject matter experts offers technical assistance, tailored education, best practices, tools and resources for healthcare organizations and Medicare consumers. We look forward to serving as your quality improvement expert, partner and resource in the journey towards improvement.
Our Commitment
We aim to achieve better health care, improved health, safer care and lower healthcare costs. Our team works in conjunction with state partners, while pooling resources and common elements into an organization that can best serve the needs of healthcare providers and Medicare consumers across the region.
Prioritizing Equity: Five Transformation Focus Areas
Health equity is not only a moral necessity, but also a strategic and operational must for healthcare leaders and organizations. Health equity aligns with legal and ethical obligations, enhances an organization’s reputation, contributes to the long-term success and...
Better Choices Better Health Toolkit & Implementation Guide
The purpose of this new Implementation Guide is to provide South Dakota Cardiovascular Collaborative partners with premade and brand-approved promotional social media tools and materials about Better Choices, Better Health® SD, pharmacy programs available in South...
Multi-Visit Patient Utilization State Reports
The Great Plains QIN team strives to improve healthcare quality and patient outcomes. We work with partners and community coalitions to identify areas for improvement, which include reducing avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions, and high utilizers of the...
What’s New in Advance Care Planning?
Advance care planning (ACP) is a process that involves making decisions about your future health care. ACP typically involves discussions between individuals, family members and the healthcare provider team to understand and document a person's values, preferences and...
Instead of the 12 days of Christmas…Get Ready For 8 Days of Dementia Tips
What to say when, how to positively respond to behaviors, how to join their reality, validate their feelings and then distract? This is always a challenge with persons living with dementia. Because of what is physically happening to their brain from the disease, they...
In Case You Missed It | Focus 4 Health: TeamSTEPPS®
During this Series, we discussed TeamSTEPPS, an evidenced-based set of teamwork tools that are aimed at optimizing patient outcomes by improving communication and teamwork skills among healthcare teams, including patients and family caregivers. Below are all of the...
Reducing Readmissions by Improving Communication
Research shows that many hospital readmissions are avoidable. Yet, in 2022, about 75% of hospitals still incurred readmission penalties. In 2021, only 1 in 5 Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) were awarded payments from the SNF VBP (Value-Based Purchasing) Program...
Save the Date: CMS Health Equity Conference | May 29 – 30, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced its second annual CMS Health Equity Conference on May 29-30, 2024. The free, hybrid conference will be held in person at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Bethesda, Maryland, and available online for...
South Dakota and North Dakota Nursing Homes: Top Performers for Resident COVID-19 Vaccination Rates
COVID-19 cases are rising across the country as health officials prepare for another winter season of fighting respiratory diseases. Kudos to nursing homes in South Dakota and North Dakota for having the highest and second highest rate, respectively, of COVID-19...
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.