Welcome to the Flex Monitoring Team Site
A Performance Monitoring Resource for Critical Access Hospitals, States, and Communities.The Rural Health Research Centers at the Universities of Minnesota, North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Southern Maine (the Flex Monitoring Team), are the recipients of a 5-year cooperative agreement award from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy to continue to monitor and evaluate the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Grant Program (Flex Program). The monitoring project is assessing the impact of the Flex Program on Critical Access Hospitals and their communities and the role of states in achieving overall program objectives.
Our most recent products are listed below. For a complete listing click on the "Publications and Presentations" link to the left.
The FMT had four presentations at the 2013 NRHA Annual Rural Health Conference:
- Obligations and Opportunities for Community Activities Under Health Reform.
- Financial Performance of Rural Hospitals and Implications for Elimination of the Critical Access Hospital Program.
- Rural Health Quality, Where Art Thou?
- Evidence for Community Paramedicine in Rural Communities.
Most recent products
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