Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Office of Rural Health

Massachusetts State Flex Program

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

Selected Core Competency: Improving Financial Stability

The Massachusetts  Flex Program has a long-standing MA Rural Hospital CEO/CFO Forum, a collaboration with CAHs and SHIP hospitals, the MA Health and Hospital Association, and Stroudwater Associates.  Through this learning and action network hospital senior leadership participates in group financial and operational benchmarking; exploration,  implementation, and ongoing development of rural models of healthcare delivery, hospital and rural health clinic feasibility and other analyses; understanding industry updates, post-pandemic trends, workforce pressures, best practices and peer-sharing. What we are also working on is the integration of other key concerns – for example, improving clinical quality, as ultimately key to financial sustainability, as well.