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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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, Ira Moscovice
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, Sara Kahn-Troster, Karen Pearson, Nathan First
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, Sara Kahn-Troster, 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…
John Gale, Stephanie Loux, Andrew Coburn
The Flex Monitoring Team has developed this logic modeling toolkit for use by state Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Programs (Flex Programs) in…