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.

Filter by:

Andrew Coburn, John Gale, Melanie Race, Mark Richards, Anush Hansen
A central goal of the Flex Program, as defined in the original and reauthorizing legislation, is to help Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) develop and…
John Gale, Jennifer Lenardson, Melanie Race, Walter Gregg, Michelle Casey, Indira Richardson, Stephen Rutledge
To document effective state initiatives using Flex Grant Program funds, Flex Coordinators in all 45 participating states were asked to identify and…
Michelle Casey, Ira Moscovice, Jill Klingner
This report describes the patient safety results from a national phone survey of 474 CAH administrators conducted in early 2004. Survey respondents…
Michelle Casey, Ira Moscovice, Jill Klingner
The Flex Monitoring Team conducted a national telephone survey of 500 Critical Access Hospital (CAH) administrators between January and April 2004 to…