The Flex Monitoring Team (FMT) has released a new product, the Workforce Toolkit to Support Critical Access Hospitals and Rural Providers. This toolkit provides background on health care workforce challenges in the U.S., describes common workforce challenges faced by Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), and provides examples and links to external resources that CAHs may use to address their own workforce needs and enhance recruitment and retention.
The toolkit includes five modules, which each discuss key workforce challenges and resources by topic. These include an introductory module that summarizes broad challenges in the rural health care workforce as well as modules on organizational culture and leadership, leveraging partnerships, emergency medical services workforce, and administrative and support staff workforce.