The National Rural Health Association released its annual list of the top 20 rural and community hospitals in the U.S., based on an evaluation of prospective payment system hospitals by the Chartis Center for Rural Health.
The list, released March 24, uses the Chartis Rural Hospital Performance INDEX to assess hospital performance. Eight factors are used to determine the top 20 hospitals: inpatient market share, outpatient market share, quality, outcomes, patient perspective, cost, charge and finance.
Here are the top 20 rural and community hospitals in the U.S., listed in alphabetical order:
- Alomere Health (Alexandria, Minn.)
- Avera Sacred Heart Hospital (Yankton, S.D.)
- Brookings (S.D.) Health System
- Chambers Memorial Hospital (Danville, Ark.)
- CHI Mercy Health (Roseburg, Ore.)
- HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital Breese (Ill.)
- Hutchinson (Minn.) Health
- Intermountain Health Cedar City Hospital (Utah)
- Intermountain Health Sevier Valley Hospital (Richfield, Utah)
- Ivinson Memorial Hospital (Laramie, Wyo.)
- Jones Memorial Hospital (Wellsville, N.Y.)
- Labette Health (Parsons, Kan.)
- OhioHealth Van Wert (Ohio) Hospital
- Peterson Health (Kerrville, Texas)
- Riverside Walter Reed Hospital (Gloucester, Va.)
- Sheridan (Wyo.) Memorial Hospital
- Spencer (Iowa) Hospital
- SSM Health St. Clare Hospital – Baraboo (Wis.)
- St. John’s Health (Jackson, Wyo.)
- UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center (Steamboat Springs, Colo.)
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