QIO News Posts

Graduated medical doctors advance from classwork and clinical rotations into the world of residency programs. Here they expand their skills by practicing alongside experienced providers. The set of six medical residents who rotate into the Family Medicine Residency...

A community pharmacy was successful in partnering with a hospital and other community pharmacies to lead a care transitions intervention associated with reduced 30-day same-hospital readmissions. The results of this study were printed in the January-February 2018...

The National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable (NCCRT), an organization co-founded by the American Cancer Society and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, honored Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln with a national achievement award recognizing community...

The One & Only Campaign is a public health campaign, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition (SIPC), to raise awareness among patients and healthcare providers about safe injection practices. The...

Healthcare professionals from long-term care facilities across South Dakota had the opportunity to participate in an Association for Professionals in Infection Control (APIC) Certificate Series hosted by the South Dakota Department of Health (DOH), Healthcare...

CDC Updates its Shingles Disease and Vaccine Webpages to Reflect the New ACIP Vaccination Recommendations A new shingles vaccine, Shingrix, was licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2017. The CDC recommends that healthy adults 50 years and older...

MIPS reporting deadlines are quickly approaching! We have staff and tools available to assist you during the reporting period.   Great Plains Quality Innovation Network offers FREE assistance to all Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians....

Healthcare Professionals: Optimize Antibiotic Prescribing and Use Earlier today, the CDC’s Office of Antibiotic Stewardship launched the first section of a four-part web-based training course on Antibiotic Stewardship. While this particular course is primarily for...

According to health officials, this year's flu season has now sent more people to the hospital with the illness than in nearly a decade. Officials said they are particularly concerned about the season's hospitalization rate — 51.4 per 100,000 people — which is already...

The mission of Northland Health Centers (NCHC), an organization of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in North Dakota, is “to strengthen the health status in the communities we serve.” When NCHC was invited to participate in a region-wide project to improve...