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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Robert Barclay, Hannah MacDougall, Annie Lemieux, Carson Crane, Megan Lahr
Health care workforce recruitment and retention challenges are pervasive throughout the U.S., driven by factors such as staff shortages, high rates…
Megan Lahr, Robert Barclay, Madeleine Pick
This page includes several resources for Critical Access Hospitals to use to complete the 2024 CAH Quality Inventory and Assessment (Assessment).…
Megan Lahr, Robert Barclay, Madeleine Pick
The resources on this page are ancillary materials related to the 2024 CAH Quality Inventory & Assessment (Assessment) for State Flex Programs (…
Megan Lahr, Madeleine Pick, Robert Barclay
The Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Quality Infrastructure measure is a structural measure to assess CAH capacity, processes, and infrastructure for…
The Flex Monitoring Team makes financial indicator data available to every Critical Access Hospital in the United States on an annual basis. These…
Madeleine Pick
In this webinar recording, the Flex Monitoring Team presented their results from a survey of system-owned and independent Critical Access Hospital (…
Madeleine Pick, Megan Lahr
In this webinar, the Flex Monitoring Team (FMT) presented their results from a survey of Critical Access Hospital (CAH) CEOs about their hospital's…
John Gale, Karen Pearson
Substance use is a significant public health issue in rural communities. In particular, the opioid epidemic continues to have a devastating impact in…
John Gale, Zach Croll, Yvonne Jonk, Karen Pearson
State Flex Programs have played an important role in addressing the evolving COVID-19 needs of their CAHs and will continue to do so as we emerge…
John Gale, Melanie Race
This document is designed to provide guidance to the staffs of Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in collecting and reporting community benefit data to…