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.
International Overdose Awareness Day: A Time to Remember. Time to Act.
CDC Marks International Overdose Awareness Day with New Research on Benzodiazepine Overdose August 31, 2021, marks International Overdose Awareness Day. It’s a day to remember and grieve those we’ve lost and to strengthen resolve to end overdose injuries and deaths....
Interprofessional Collaborative Efforts to Deprescribe Medications In Long-Term Care | September 20, 2021
Dakota Geriatrics, in partnership with the North Dakota Long Term Care Academy (ND Pharmacists Assn) and the John Hopkins University GWEP will be offering a webinar, Interprofessional Collaborative Efforts to Deprescribe Medications In Long-Term Care. Monday,...
Best Practice Brief: Considering Tribal Culture within the Care Plan | August 26, 2021
Considering Tribal Culture within the Care Plan August 26, 2021 | 12:00 PM CT Families and communities commonly recognize major events or transitions...
National Nursing Home Stakeholder Call | August 25, 2021
Join the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a National Nursing Home Stakeholder Call: Wednesday, August 25, 2021 3:00 - 3:30 pm CT You MUST register to attend! [button...
Biden-Harris Administration Takes Additional Action to Protect America’s Nursing Home Residents from COVID-19
Aug 18, 2021 - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is developing an emergency regulation requiring staff vaccinations within the nation’s more than 15,000 Medicare and...
Connected Care Toolkit: A Chronic Care Management Resource from CMS
Developed by CMS, the Connected Care Toolkit equips health care providers with resources to raise awareness about the importance of chronic care management (CCM) services for Medicare and dual-eligible patients managing multiple chronic conditions. Connected Care...
A Black Hills Health Care System Caregiver Summit | September 21, 2021
September 21, 2021 | 9:00 a.m. - Noon MT Healthcare providers and professionals are invited to attend a joint effort of South Dakota State University Extension and VA Black Hills Health Care System Caregiver Summit to learn about Inclusive Care on September 21 from...
Tribal Pilot Expands Cultural Elements in Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshops
Better Choices, Better Health South Dakota (BCBH-SD) has offered nearly 300 workshops and provided evidence-based education through workshops and training to more than 3,000 people since 2014. While the tribal population represents about ten percent of the state's...
New #GetVaccinated Handouts Help Answer Common Questions and Implementing Mandates
As efforts continue to increase staff vaccination rates in long term care, the American Health Care Association (AHCA)/National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) has created new materials to help support long-term care providers. Three new handouts...
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.