April 9, 2018
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
DATA DEVELOPMENT
3Q 17 MBQIP: Reports uploaded to the MHA Data Portal
 
2Q 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
CART DOWNLOADS

Before you enter 1Q 2018 cases into CART/Qnet you will need to download updated versions of CART for Inpatient and Outpatient. Versions and links to the downloads are below. For a matter of reference, these uploads would apply to 1Q 2018 data that is due Aug 2018. You can download the update at any time, just make sure you select the correct time frame while entering into CART.


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