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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

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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…

Research Update: Policy Implications for the Rural Health Safety Net

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by Michael Topchik National Leader, The Chartis Center for Rural Health February 6, 2018 The Chartis Center for Rural Health has been monitoring and modeling rural provider performance in an effort to better understand the overall stability of the rural health safety net. Our research findings have made an important contribution to the national narrative around the complex challenges confronting rural providers and the downward pressure caused by different policies and legislation. This week we’ll…

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