National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is April 28
The 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, sponsored by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and local law enforcement...
AHA shares new resource on ICD-10-CM coding for social determinants of health
The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently released a new resource that hospitals and health systems can use to educate...
Hospitals show improvement in Patient & Family Engagement
The South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations has 42 South Dakota hospitals participating in the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative (IHC)...
“Healthy” is much more than “health care”
In a fast paced world, full of increasing information overload, many people find it difficult to find the time...
Surgeon general issues health advisory
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued a health advisory, the first to come out in the last 10 years,...
Length of antibiotic treatment for sinusitis is too long
A study released by The Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine shows that primary care physicians are...
CMS comment period on hospice measures closes April 25
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking public comments on draft quality measures developed to supplement...
IMPACT Act quality measures call for comments
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is accepting public comments on the development of quality measures for the...
Free webinar: Challenges sepsis poses to rural hospitals
Sepsis accounts for 15 out of every 100 rural hospitalizations and is the cause of 50 percent of in-hospital...
Sanford doctor, Sioux Falls clinic win awards for colorectal cancer screening efforts
Dr. Daniel Heinemann, MD, of Sanford Health Network, and Falls Community Health have received top honors from the South...
