Resources & Tools
The Flex Monitoring Team completes projects each year in a variety of topic areas such as Critical Access Hospital (CAH) financial and operational improvement, patient safety, quality of care, Emergency Medical Services, and social determinants of health. These resources and tools aim to provide important products for key stakeholders to use to as they work in and with CAHs to improve different aspects of CAH activity.
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This outcome measurement and evaluation toolkit and related resources are based on the Flex Monitoring Team's (FMT's) extensive experience with…
Over the past decade, hundreds of rural hospitals have stopped offering Labor & Delivery services, and many remaining programs face financial and…
This page includes several resources for Critical Access Hospitals to use to complete the 2025 CAH Quality Inventory and Assessment (Assessment).…
The HCAHPS Toolkit was developed to assist Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in reporting and utilizing HCAHPS data, which CAHs are expected to report…
The resources on this page are ancillary materials related to the 2025 CAH Quality Inventory & Assessment (Assessment) for State Flex Programs (…
The Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Quality Infrastructure measure is a structural measure to assess CAH capacity, processes, and infrastructure for…
The FMT produces state- and CAH-level reports of MBQIP measures for State Flex Programs (SFP) and CAHs to support them in quality improvement…
The Flex Monitoring Team makes financial indicator data available to every Critical Access Hospital in the United States on an annual basis. These…
Health care workforce recruitment and retention challenges are pervasive throughout the U.S., driven by factors such as staff shortages, high rates…
In this webinar recording, the Flex Monitoring Team presented their results from a survey of system-owned and independent Critical Access Hospital (…