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WEBINAR: Best Practice Brief: Considering Tribal Culture within the Care Plan

Families and communities commonly recognize major events or transitions based on their cultural background. These pivotal traditions and ceremonies are part of the cultural legacy passed down for generations and may provide an opportunity for a deeper level of self-reflection and healing. Tribal health staff will provide an overview of South Dakota Urban Indian Health’s […]

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WEBINAR: Great Plains QIN Webinar: Motivational Interviewing To Build Trust in Vaccinations

Are you struggling to have productive conversations with family members, loved ones and employees on the benefit of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine? Have you relayed data and facts, used pressure tactics and mandates and still hitting road blocks? If so, have you considered motivational interviewing? Motivational interviewing allows us to serve as an objective partner

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WEBINAR: Best Practice Brief: Prioritizing the Mental Wellbeing of Youth in the Black Hills

Prioritizing the Mental Wellbeing of Youth in the Black HillsAugust 12, 2021 | 12:00 PM CT The Community Health Center of the Black Hills recognized a need for mental health care for youth in their service area. The pandemic magnified the concerns, and the team committed to a six-month training from the National Council of

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WEBINAR: Best Practice Brief: Integrating Behavioral Health in Primary Care Practice

Whether acute or chronic in nature, physical conditions impact mental health and vice versa. Federally qualified health centers across the Dakotas utilize an integrated care model to identify patients in need of services and engage the healthcare team and patient in shared decision-making. Register Today. Robin Landwehr, LPCC, behavioral health and substance use disorder program

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CoP: Informed Consent: Ensuring Compliance with CMS, TJC and DNV: More than Just a Signature

This program will discuss the current CMS hospital conditions of Participation for Critical Access and Acute hospitals.  Standards and requirements under Joint Commission and DNV Health will also be addressed.  A recent study found consent forms were absent in 66% of patient in hospitals leading to a delay of surgical procedures in 10% of the

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CoP Webinar: Swing Beds Regulations: Complying with the CAH Conditions of Participation

In late 2019, CMS rewrote all the swing bed regulations and tag numbers.  Though the regulations are provided in the Critical Access Hospital Conditions of Participation – Appendix W – the interpretive guidelines and survey procedures are in appendix PP for Long Term Care.  There is no crosswalk between Appendix PP and Appendix W.  Many

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Dakota Conference on Rural & Public Health

The Dakota Conference provides an opportunity for over 300 healthcare professionals, educators, and students to share strategies for building and sustaining healthy communities in North Dakota. It includes two and one half days of pre-conference workshops, keynote speakers, breakout sessions, poster presentations, evening workshops, and an awards banquet. https://ruralhealth.und.edu/dakota-conference

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