Projects
Each year, the Flex Monitoring Team conducts several projects in the areas of quality performance, financial performance, and community engagement. Select a description below to find out more information about the project and any associated publications. Our current projects are listed first, followed by completed projects.
The COVID-19 pandemic initially struck hardest in densely populated metro areas, but as the virus continues to spread its effects on strained rural…
Completed Project
Under Program Area 3, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy set forth three areas in which State Flex Programs (SFPs) could aim to build Critical…
Completed Project
Social determinants of health—the social, political, and economic factors that influence or define the circumstances in which people are born, grow…
Completed Project
Federal data collection often overlooks or fails to retain rural-relevant measures, leaving Flex programs with fewer measures with which to assess…
Completed Project
Purpose
The purpose of this project was to analyze the efforts of CAHs to develop systems of care that support the provision of these core health…
Completed Project
The purpose of this project was to measure the community benefit and impact performance of CAHs nationally and by state using data from the American…
Completed Project
The purposes of this project were: 1) to generate State Flex Program monitoring data that states would be submitting under the new program guidance;…
Completed Project
This project aimed to identify the extent to which CAH-based Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) are providing mental health services, how they are…
Completed Project
As the hub of local health care systems, CAHs can play an important role in addressing the problems of opioid use in their communities. For this…
Completed Project
While the financial challenges of Critical Access Hospitals and the spate of rural hospital closures have recently garnered national attention,…
Completed Project
COVID-19 has posed unique challenges to rural communities and rural hospitals, including Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). The ability of CAHs to…
Completed Project
The COVID‐19 pandemic has disrupted the operations of hospitals nationally. However, little is known about the overall impact of COVID‐19 on the…
Completed Project
As the COVID-19 pandemic has persisted, Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) have found innovative ways to support their workforce. In this project…
Completed Project
Though the proportion of Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) using at least a basic electronic health record (EHR) is comparable to non‐CAHs, CAHs are…
Completed Project
In this project the Flex Monitoring Team will work with the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy to evaluate quality improvement activities…
Completed Project
Given the high level of performance achieved by Critical Access Hospital (CAH) antibiotic stewardship programs (ASPs), it is valuable to supplement…
Completed Project
This project will produce recommendations for the future of the Flex Program, given challenges posed by COVID-19. COVID-19 has exposed the…
Completed Project
Building on the FMT’s extensive body of work related to the role of Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in supporting the health of their communities,…
Completed Project
Hospice closures in rural communities are putting a strain on the remaining hospice providers, and this strain is compounded by increased demand for…
Completed Project
This project will identify a rural-relevant minimum data set of core EMS (Emergency Medical Services) agency licensure elements for…
Completed Project