Flex Monitoring Team

Welcome to the Flex Monitoring Team Site

A Performance Monitoring Resource for Critical Access Hospitals, States, and Communities.

The Rural Health Research Centers at the Universities of Minnesota, North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Southern Maine (the Flex Monitoring Team), are the recipients of a 5-year cooperative agreement award from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy to continue to monitor and evaluate the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Grant Program (Flex Program). The monitoring project is assessing the impact of the Flex Program on Critical Access Hospitals and their communities and the role of states in achieving overall program objectives.

Our most recent publications are listed below. For a complete listing click on the "Publications and Presentations" link to the left.

Briefing Papers	Policy Briefs
Critical Access Hospital Year 4 Hospital Compare Participation and Quality Measure Results (September 2009)	Critical Access Hospitals and Financial Benchmark Performance (November 2009)
Presentations	Other Documents
Managing Community Benefits in Turbulent Times. Presented at the NRHA Critical Access Hospital Conference, Portland, OR.(October 2009)	A Community Benefit Reporting Toolkit for Critical Access Hospitals (October 2009)