Sepsis Awareness Month
September is Sepsis Awareness Month, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is sponsoring and/or promoting numerous events to stress the...
ACHI Seeking Proposals for 2020 Conference
The Association for Community Health Improvement (ACHI), an affiliate of the American Hospital Association, is seeking presenters to share innovative strategies and new tools...
CMS Enhancement of Hospital Star Ratings
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ​this week their intentions to release hospital star ratings located on the Hospital Compare website in early...
19th Annual Community Response to Child Abuse Conference October 3-4
In its 19th year, the Community Response to Child Abuse Conference is expected to gather over 700 attendees from across South Dakota and beyond....
Public Comment Open: Child and Adult Core Sets of Quality Measures for Medicaid and...
The public comment period is now open for the draft report, Recommendations for Improving the Core Sets of Health Care Quality Measures for Medicaid...
Opioid Prevention in Communities, Youth, and Higher Education
Prevention is key to prevent opioid abuse and overdose. Following up on a previous SDAHO article called Avoid Opioid Initiative, we want to highlight...
South Dakota HPV Vaccination Resources
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a very common virus; about one in four people are currently infected in the United States. ​From 2001 to 2014, 4,719...
SDAHO COARE Project
SDAHO has embarked on a journey with a State-funded grant project titled Community Opioid Abuse Response Effort (COARE). The aim of COAREÂ is to...
South Dakota’s Health Ranking
The Commonwealth Fund​ recently released its 2019 Scorecard on State Health System Performance, which ranks all 50 states on key measures of health. Researchers looked at 2017 data from...
Avoid Opioid Initiative
Is your organization aware of the Opioid Abuse grant work occurring within South Dakota? The South Dakota Department of Health, South Dakota Department of...
