Join CAH MBQIP – Tell Your Story

The Federal Health Resources and Services Administration’s Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) recently kicked off a new Critical Access Hospital initiative, MBQIP, the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project. With more national attention on quality and reporting, this initiative takes a proactive and visionary approach to ensure CAHs are well-equipped and prepared to measure and demonstrate quality. Through this voluntary program, CAHs agree to give ORHP access to the data their hospital is submitting to CMS. This data will be aggregated to benchmark, demonstrate improvements, share best practices, and to generate reports to aid CAHs and states in their quality improvement activities. There is additional information about MBQIP in this YouTube video from HRSA’s Senior Health Policy Advisor, Paul Moore. To join MBQIP, contact Jen Dunn at jd@coruralhealth.org. Additionally, through CRHC’s iCARE Program (Improving Communication and Readmission) your facility has access to free technical assistance to help your hospital make improvements in many of the same areas ORHP’s MBQIP is focusing on. For more information and to join iCARE, click here. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact mm@coruralhealth.org or jd@coruralhealth.org.