November 27, 2017
MBQIP Monday Message
This weekly newsletter is provided by the MT Flex Grant and Performance Improvement Network (PIN) to assist in keeping your hospital on track with activities of the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Program (MBQIP). MBQIP is the quality initiative of the Flex Program and is designed to support Critical Access Hospitals in building capacity for value based care.
DEADLINES
December 10
3Q 2017 PIN Benchmarking

February 1


February 15
  • 3Q 17 Inpatient Measures
  • Inpatient Influenza Immunization & ED Throughput
DATA DEVELOPMENT
1Q 17 MBQIP: Reports uploaded to the MHA Data Portal

1Q 17 HCAHPS: Reports uploaded to the MHA Data Portal.




Go to Reports in the upper right corner of the screen.  All reports should be listed there and can be filtered.  If you are having problems accessing the Data Portal, please contact Jennifer Wagner .
 
We encourage all CAHs to use these reports to the further extent possible; with boards, the community, and internally to move quality and performance.
PUT INTO PRACTICE
Healthcare Worker Immunization - OP-27

Its time to start encouraging your healthcare workers to receive their influenza immunization. The state-wide goal is 90% or great of healthcare workers will be immunized against influenza. Checkout our online toolkit!

Healthcare Worker Immunization Webinar
December 6, 2:00 pm

HCAHPS Pain Management Questions

Beginning with patients discharged in January 2018, CMS replaced the current Pain Management questions (items 12, 13 and 14 on the HCAHPS Survey) with three new questions that will comprise a new composite measure, “Communication About Pain.”

The new pain items will be required on all surveys administered to patients discharged from January 1, 2018 and forward. This change will affect all survey translations and all survey modes. The official versions of the new Pain Management items for all survey modes and in all language translations have been posted.

Please note that the current pain questions must be used for all patients discharged before January 1, 2018. Click  here to access the Survey Instruments page.


QUICK LINKS



Zero Cases Instructions (Coming Soon!)


MBQIP CALENDAR


Wall Calendars Coming Soon!

4Q 2017

1Q 2018
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This publication was made possible by Grant #H54RH00046 (MT Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Grant) from the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) to the MT Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of HRSA, ORHP or MT DPHHS.