CHI St. Alexius Health Carrington is a 25-bed critical access hospital and level 5 trauma center that has served central North Dakota since 1916, operating two nearby rural health clinics to extend primary and preventive care access across the region. The hospital has been named a “Top 100 Critical Access Hospital” in 11 separate years, dating back to 2012, and a “Top 20 Critical Access Hospital” seven times, most recently in 2026. Services span primary care and family medicine, behavioral health, pain management, wound care, radiology including mammography, physical therapy, diabetes education and management, emergency services, sleep medicine, ENT and general surgery. The hospital also operates an addiction and recovery clinic, addressing a critical behavioral health need in rural North Dakota. A focused patient safety initiative targeting unnecessary urinary catheter use, combining frequent audits, staff education and provider feedback, achieved a 10% reduction in catheter days, illustrating the hospital’s data-driven approach to quality improvement.
