QIO News Posts
Chronic Disease Management Resources and Tools
The Great Plains Quality Innovation Network helps providers with the prevention and management of chronic diseases by preventing cardiovascular events, promoting tobacco cessation, improving the management of diabetes to decrease complications and identifying...
Emergency Preparedness: Are you Ready??
Natural disasters, like floods, storms, and earthquakes, can strike at any time without warning and disrupt our normal lives. Being prepared can help protect your organization, those you care for and your community during an emergency. The Centers for Medicare &...
Preventing Respiratory Infections in Nursing Facilities
Pneumonia is the second most common cause of infection in nursing facilities. A seasonal increase in pneumonia occurs due to influenza and unfortunately, many nursing home residents do not survive. The most common pneumonia pathogens in the nursing facility are...
Great Plains QIN LAN Event: Advance Care Planning – What’s New | December 5, 2023
Advance care planning (ACP) is a process that involves making decisions about your future health care. It typically involves discussions between individuals, their families and their healthcare providers to understand and document a person's values, preferences and...
Solutions to Isolation and Loneliness – In Case You Missed It: Access the Recording
The need for solutions to social isolation and loneliness has never been greater. An organization that values social connectedness, inclusion and a growth mindset will allow their community and staff to thrive in skills of emotional intelligence, empathy,...
The Biden-Harris Administration: Improve Health and Wellbeing by Addressing Social Determinants of Health
The social and economic conditions of the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship and age affect a wide range of health, functioning and quality-of-life outcomes. White House and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),...
Sepsis I The TIME is Now
Every 20 seconds, another person in the United States will be diagnosed with sepsis. Sepsis is the body’s extreme response to an infection. It is life-threatening, and without timely treatment, sepsis can rapidly lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death. Sepsis...
Call to Action: Behavioral Health CARE in the Emergency Department
What does Culture Change look like for you? For your organization? "I have spent a great deal of my work time the last two months researching and reading articles and studies related to behavioral health in the emergency department. Truth be told, I struggled to find...
Early Detection of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Decreases Costs and Saves Lives
According to the National Kidney Foundation, chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects 37 million people, or 15 percent, of adults in the United States. Diabetes and high blood pressure are responsible for two-thirds of cases. The condition is usually asymptomatic until...
Lower Anticoagulant Dose: What It Means For Older Adults in Nursing Homes
The Journal of the American Heart Association recently conducted a study involving 21,878 nursing home residents with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) which revealed that standard doses of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) led to a higher rate of bleeding...