The South Dakota Foundation for Medical Care serves as a quality improvement facilitator and resource for health care professionals and stakeholders across South Dakota. With an extensive history of leading and collaborating to impact positive health outcomes, we offer experience in project development, design and implementation.
Collaboration
We join healthcare professionals and stakeholders to promote ongoing quality improvement efforts and sharing of best practices that benefit the state and region.
Quality Improvement
Providing assistance and resources to identify high-impact quality improvement efforts and implement evidence-based practice models.
Medical Case Review
SDFMC is designated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO)-Like Entity for South Dakota and performs medical case review to for South Dakota Medicaid patients.
SIOUX FALLS/RAPID CITY (October 27, 2020) A group of organizations in South Dakota have joined to recommend and promote masking as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge throughout the …
Part 2: National Coronavirus Commission for Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes Strong-willed, unafraid, and humble come to mind when visiting with Platte Health Center Avera CEO Mark …
Part 1: Drawing from Experience Leads to Many Recommendations In preparation for serving as the Midwest representative on the National Coronavirus Commission for Safety and Quality in Nursing …
The South Dakota Foundation for Medical Care (SDFMC) is proud to announce being the recipient of a contract award with the South Dakota Department of Health to implement …
Most eleven year old boys love physical education class, but Caleb Hestad refused to do his push-ups, and received both detention and a diagnosis of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis …
With the world pandemic of the coronavirus, the nation’s nursing homes have been experiencing the pressure of protecting their residents from isolation and infection. The close living quarters …
SDFMC is a partner of the Great Plains Quality Innovation Network, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Program (QIN_QIO) for North Dakota and South Dakota.