This policy brief focuses on evidence-based AMI Quality Improvement (QI) programs and strategies that are applicable to CAHs, particularly with respect to MBQIP Phase 2 Measures.

Key Findings:

• Few reports in peer-reviewed literature evaluate the effectiveness of QI programs for AMI specifically for Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs).
• QI programs to improve hospitals’ AMI care in the literature primarily focus on: 1) improving the processes of care and creating standardized pathways of care in AMI in individual hospitals and 2) creating larger networks for delivery of AMI care.
• Several QI strategies have been shown to improve AMI care and are potentially replicable in CAHs.