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CAHs Can! National Rural Virtual Quality Improvement Mentor Profile Series: Marilyn Denno
Data: CAHs Measure Up – Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) Response Rates
Tips: Robyn Quips – Emergency Department Transfer Communication (EDTC) Abstraction Quiz Answers
Tools and Resources – Helping Critical Access Hospitals Succeed in Quality Reporting & Improvement

Teryl Eisinger, Advisor, National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) was awarded the Calico Quality Leadership Award at the 2022 Flex Program Reverse Site Visit held virtually July 19-22, 2022.

CAHs Can! National Rural Virtual Quality Improvement Mentor Profile Series: Cara Cruz
Data: CAHs Measure Up – Prioritize Your Quality Improvement Projects
Tips: Robyn Quips – Emergency Department Transfer Communication (EDTC) Abstraction Quiz
Tools and Resources – Helping Critical Access Hospitals Succeed in Quality Reporting & Improvement

CAHs Can! National Rural Virtual Quality Improvement Mentor Profile Series: Katherine Bryant
Data: CAHs Measure Up – Ensuring Data Accuracy
Tips: Robyn Quips – Abstraction Tidbits
Tools and Resources – Helping  Critical Access Hospitals Succeed in Quality Reporting & Improvement

CAHs Can! National Rural Virtual Quality Improvement Mentor Profile Series: Caryn Bommersbach
Data: CAHs Measure Up – OP-18 Performance Snapshot
Tips: Robyn Quips – Annual Measures OP-22 and HCP
Tools and Resources – Helping Critical Access Hospitals Succeed in Quality Reporting & Improvement

CAHs Can! National Rural Virtual Quality Improvement Mentor Profile Series: Gloria Barth
Data: CAHs Measure Up – Missing Data on Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project (MBQIP) Reports
Tips: Robyn Quips – Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Measure Resources
Tools and Resources – Helping Critical Access Hospitals Succeed in Quality Reporting & Improvement

CAHs Can! Antibiotic Stewardship Profile Series: Astria Sunnyside Hospital
Data: CAHs Measure Up – Random Sampling
Tips: Robyn Quips – Reporting Tidbits
Tools and Resources – Helping Critical Access Hospitals Succeed in Quality Reporting & Improvement

CAHs Can! New Cohort of National Virtual Quality Improvement Mentors Ready to Help with QI Challenges
Data: CAHs Measure Up – Emergency Department Transfer Communication (EDTC) Performance
Tips: Robyn Quips – National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Annual Facility Survey
Tools and Resources – Helping Critical Access Hospitals Succeed in Quality Reporting & Improvement

Grant Memorial Hospital is recognized for demonstrating an innovative approach to collaboration through telehealth. They have successfully minimized barriers by connecting rural populations to needed health care to address clinical issues and patient needs, as well as provide support, resources, and education in behavioral health and cardiology.

UPMC Cole, located in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, is one of three critical access hospitals CAHs that received national recognition for demonstrating an innovative approach to post-acute care that supports a patient’s continued recovery from illness or management of a chronic illness or disability.

Harrison County Community Hospital (HCCH), located in Bethany, Missouri, is one of three critical access hospitals (CAHs) that received national recognition for demonstrating an innovative approach to post-acute care that supports a patient’s continued recovery from illness, or management of a chronic illness or disability.

Pinckneyville Community Hospital, located in Pinckneyville, Illinois, is one of just three critical access hospitals that received national recognition for demonstrating an innovative approach to post-acute care that supports a patient’s continued recovery from illness or management of a chronic illness or disability.

Lexington Regional Health Center (LRHC), located in Lexington, Nebraska, was one of only four CAHs that received national recognition for demonstrating innovative care coordination initiatives to improve population health.

Lincoln County Medical Center (LCMC), located in Ruidoso, New Mexico, was one of only four CAHs that earned national recognition for demonstrating innovative care coordination initiatives to improve population health.

Mason District Hospital, located in Havana, Illinois, is one of only four CAHs across the United States to receive national recognition for its care coordination program.

Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital (SGCMH), located in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, is one of only four CAHs that received national recognition for demonstrating innovative care coordination initiatives to improve population health.

Ellenville Regional Hospital is recognized for implementing an innovative project to fight the opioid crisis in collaboration with a federally qualified health care center (FQHC). The Opiate Reduction Medicaid Accelerated Exchange Series Pilot (Max) Project has provided a new model of care in an effort to decrease the administration of opioids in the Emergency Department (ED).

Margaretville Hospital is recognized for an innovative mental health program for students that combines in-person psychotherapy and telepsychiatry in public schools at no cost to the students, their families, or the school district.