The Flex Monitoring Team (FMT) has released a new product, Reporting and Performance of Maternity-related Quality Measures in Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). As maternity care in rural areas continues to be a priority nationally, access to quality health care for mothers and infants is essential for their health and well-being.
In this brief, the FMT describes the characteristics of CAHs that provide labor and delivery services, identifies relationships between maternity care quality performance and CAH characteristics (such as system affiliation, volume, and location), and identifies quality measures related to maternity and birth outcomes that are most feasible and relevant for CAHs and rural hospitals.