Florida Department of Health

Florida State Flex Program

What is one Core Competency your state Flex Program is working on developing through Flex activities?

Selected Core Competency: Managing the Flex Program

Over the past several years, the Florida (FL) Flex program has had a great deal of turnover. Recently, the FL State Office of Rural Health (SORH) hired a full-time Flex Coordinator and is planning to make improvements in timely and high-quality reporting, building relationships with Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), and increasing collaboration across SORH programming. Florida Flex staff have attended several national rural health events to increase understanding of the Flex program, as well as completing 12 virtual site visits with the FL CAHs, working closely with the Flex vendors, reviewing the most recent Flex support documents as well as previously submitted reports, and attending several webinar/professional development opportunities hosted by both state and national partners.