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Flex Program

Examples of Past Flex Grant Awards

  • Cardiac Rehabilitation Program - Cardiac stress test equipment:  StressVue Monitoring system, Trackmaster treadmill
  • Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program – Recumbant bike, Airdyne treadmill, exercise testing system, defibrillator, spirometer, capnographer, education, travel, coordinator salary and benefits
  • Patient Physical Therapy Services – Personnel, fringe benefits, advertising
  • Monitoring System – Installation of Watch Mate patient monitoring system
  • Call-Light System – Purchase and installation of new call-light system
  • Community Wellness Program and Health Fair – Travel to different wellness facilities, postage and supplies for community survey, staff, therapy equipment, computer and printer, audio/visual equipment, marketing/advertising
  • “Fight the Fat” Program – Speakers fee, pedometers, lab fees, weigh-in equipment, facilitator fee, t-shirts, marketing, books
  • Chemotherapy Education – Educational materials
  • Laboratory Services – Hematology Analyzer, coagulation machine, Biosite Triage MeterPlus, marketing
  • Financial Analysis – On-site operational analysis, business review, sample claims by payor comparison, feasibility studies, Chargemaster/Billing Compliance Review, Medicare Cost Report Review, consultant travel
  • Childbirth Classes – Videos and printed materials, Empathy Belly and case, Electric Breast Pump, seminar/workshop registration fees, travel expenses
  • Women and Children’s Wellness Program – Gyn table, Doppler,  bone density screening machine, wall mounted height measurer, baby scale tymp meter, marketing – staff and advertising
  • Staff Education – Onsite surgical tech education program and offsite nurse education for OB training
  • Community Hypertension Program – Staff salary and fringe benefits, laptop computer and powerpoint projector, blood pressure cuffs, pedometers, educational materials
  • Lab Information System – System hardware and software with communication interfaces to communicate with the electronic medical records
  • Respiratory Therapy Equipment – Respironics bi-pap vision system, re-useable and disposable full face masks, headgear
  • Information Technologist – Salary, fringe benefits, professional development, travel
  • Dictation System – 12-line Orate Enterprise Dictation System
  • Financial Software Package – Dairyland software