QIO News Posts
National Care Transitions Awareness Day and National Healthcare Decisions Day Recognized
Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted the first annual National Care Transitions Awareness Day to highlight how beneficiaries, families and caregivers and every member of the healthcare team (e.g., community partners, healthcare system...
Connecting the Dots: Antibiotics, Immunizations and Sepsis
How are immunizations, antibiotics and sepsis related and how might this impact you? Dr. Steven Q. Simpson, Dr. Trevor Van Schooneveld and Dr. Archana Chatterjee discussed the connection of these topics and identified the provider community's role in educating...
North Dakota Quality Forum to Celebrate Successes from Across the Care Continuum
Healthcare and community service professionals from across North Dakota will gather on May 23, 2019, for Quality Health Associates of North Dakota’s annual Quality Forum. The Forum will be held in four locations—Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks and Minot— to accommodate...
Hesitation and the Global Threat of Infection Disease Outbreaks
Each year approximately 42,000 adults die from vaccine preventable diseases. Ongoing surges of negative social media messages increase fear of negative health outcomes causing parents/patients to question the need for vaccines. This uncertainty has been identified as...
Care Coordination Team Collaborates to Address Hospital Readmission Issues
With the number of Americans aged 65 or older projected to reach 83.7 million by 2050, managing care coordination to achieve better outcomes and control costs has become a national priority. Great Plains QIN partners with healthcare systems and communities...
Adding Years of Life on the PATH to Impacting American Indian Health Disparities
American Indians and Alaska Natives born today have a life expectancy of five and a half years shorter than other race populations in the United States (73.0 years to 78.5 years, respectively). The Partnership to Advance Tribal Health (PATH) team partners with Indian...
A Passion for Prevention: Contributor to Success
We had the privilege of having a conversation with Dr. Susan Newman, a Lead Physician with the Grand Island Clinic, earlier this week on her efforts to improve hypertension rates among her patients. Over a one year time span, Dr. Newman has had an increase of 6...
Moving Quality Concepts into Patient-Centered Practice
Great Plains Quality Innovation Network – Nebraska hosted an action-oriented/peer-led conference on how pre-visit planning, chronic care management and care coordination can strengthen partnerships between providers and patients. The events were held in North Platte...
How Well Do We Really Know Our Patients and Residents?
The Living History Program at Yale New Haven Hospital is an innovative initiative that provides an opportunity for caregivers to learn about and honor patients’ lives. The program harnesses the power of two key drivers for improvement in reducing...
Creating the Healthiest Nation…National Public Health Week
Public health promotes and protects the health of people and the communities where they live, learn, work and play by addressing and encouraging healthy behaviors, community safety, built environment, social/environmental factors and environmental exposures. April...