<p>The Flex Monitoring Team has launched a new website at <a href="http://fmtumn.wpengine.com"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">flexmonitoring.org</span></a>, offering quick and easy access to their entire collection of resources aimed at improving the accessibility, viability, and quality of health care for rural residents and communities.   </p>
<p>A consortium of the Rural Health Research Centers at the Universities of Minnesota, North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Southern Maine, the Flex Monitoring Team is a performance monitoring resource for Critical Access Hospitals, states, and rural communities.  Their three main topic areas focus on Critical Access Hospital (CAH) quality performance, finance, and community engagement. </p>
<p>Visitors to the website will find an extensive collection of evidence-based policy briefs, reports, state-level data, and presentations from national conferences and meetings as well as news updates relevant to CAHs and the crucial role they play in rural healthcare.  Flex Monitoring Team announcements and updates will also be available via <a href="http://www.facebook.com/flexmonitoringteam&quot; target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/flex_mon&quot; target="_blank">Twitter</a>, and <a href="http://fmtumn.wpengine.com/feed&quot; target="_blank">RSS</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://fmtumn.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/FMT-press-release… href="http://fmtumn.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/FMT-press-release… press release 1-27-14</a></a></p>