Publications

The Flex Monitoring Team completes projects each year in a variety of topic areas such as CAH financial and operational improvement, patient safety, quality of care, Emergency Medical Services, and social determinants of health. These publications aim to evaluate the Flex Program and disseminate information to State Flex Programs, CAHs, and the general public. Our publications offer a wide range of information about Flex Program activities, best practices in CAHs, financial, quality, and community measures, and hospital services. Below is a list of publications from the Flex Monitoring Team. Publications are listed chronologically, in descending order. You can search by title and filter by topics and state. For data reports and publications relevant to specific states, please visit our State Profiles.

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Michelle Casey, Shailendra Prasad
Preventable hospital readmissions are considered to be a marker of poor-quality care and may reflect problems with care coordination. Additionally,…
Michelle Casey, Peiyin Hung, Alex Evenson
The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) is a national, standardized survey of patients’ perspectives of…
Michelle Casey, Alex Evenson, Shailendra Prasad, Peiyin Hung
Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) in hospitals have garnered considerable attention in recent years and are the focus of multiple national and…
Michelle Casey, Shailendra Prasad, Alex Evenson
An estimated 5-10% of hospitalized patients experience a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) every year, resulting in significant morbidity and…
Peiyin Hung, Michelle Casey, Ira Moscovice
This policy brief has three purposes: 1) to describe current Critical Access Hospital (CAH) participation in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive…
Jill Klingner, Ira Moscovice, Michelle Casey, Alex Evenson
Prior research based on field tests indicated that emergency department patient transfer communication measures are feasible and worthwhile to…
Michelle Casey, Alex Evenson, Ira Moscovice
This data summary report presents comparisons of Critical Access Hospital (CAH) reporting and performance rates from 2012 vs. the first six months of…
Michelle Casey, Peiyin Hung, Maeve McClellan, Ira Moscovice
This policy brief profiles the eighth-year participation and quality measure results for CAHs in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS…
Michelle Casey, Peiyin Hung, Ira Moscovice
This full-length report examines the eighth-year participation and quality measure results for CAHs in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
Jill Klingner, Shailendra Prasad
This report examines evidence-based medication safety Quality Improvement (QI) programs and strategies that could be implemented in Critical Access…