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The 2020 Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals: Recognizing Exceptional Performance

Billy BalfourRural Healthcare, Rural Performance, Top Performing Hospitals, Uncategorized

  Each September, The Chartis Center for Rural Health joins The National Rural Health Association in recognizing the Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals in Kansas City at the annual Critical Access Hospital Conference. While we will convene virtually this week, we are nonetheless delighted to celebrate the outstanding performance of these facilities. This year has been exceedingly difficult as COVID-19 has added a new pressure point that threatens to further erode the stability of the…

Celebrating Top 20 Performance Among America’s Critical Access Hospitals

Billy BalfourRural Healthcare, Rural Performance, Top Performing Hospitals

We’re delighted to be joining the National Rural Health Association in recognizing the nation’s Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals at the annual Critical Access Hospital Conference this week in Kansas City. The Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals is based upon the results of the 2019 Hospital Strength INDEX, and derived from the list of 2019 Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals. In its ninth year, the INDEX continues to provide rural healthcare leaders and frontline decision…

Research Update: Rural Hospital Closures Eclipse the Century Mark

Billy BalfourRural Healthcare, Rural Performance, Uncategorized1 comment, ,

by Michael Topchik National Leader, The Chartis Center for Rural Health March 19, 2019 Over the course of the last nine years, The Chartis Center for Rural Health has explored the stability of the rural health safety net. A key component of our research – whether through the lens of the Hospital Strength INDEX and the Rural Relevance Study, downward pressures on rural operating margins or declining access to OB services – has been the…

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