Area health care facilities recognized as performance leadership winners

Grand Forks, N.D. – Twenty-eight North Dakota Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) have been honored by The Chartis Center of Rural Health as Performance Leadership Award winners, according to the Center for Rural Health (CRH) within the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences.

Based upon the results of the Chartis Rural Hospital Performance INDEX®, the Performance Leadership Awards honor top quartile performance among rural hospitals in Quality, Outcomes, and/or Patient Perspective.

“We are not surprised that over 75% of our rural hospitals are being honored for their performance,” said Jody Ward, program director of the North Dakota Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program at CRH. “We see every day how hard the CAHs work to provide quality healthcare to our rural communities.”

Local medical facilities that received the award included the following:

Quality:

• CHI St. Alexius Health Carrington Medical Center in Carrington

• Cooperstown Medical Center in Cooperstown

• Jamestown Regional Medical Center in Jamestown

• SMP Health - St Aloisius in Harvey

Patient Perspective:

• CHI St Alexius Health Carrington Medical Center in Carrington

• Jamestown Regional Medical Center in Jamestown

The Chartis Rural Hospital Performance INDEX® is the industry’s most comprehensive and objective assessment of rural hospital performance. INDEX data is relied upon by rural hospitals, health systems with rural footprints, hospital associations, and state offices of rural health around the country to measure and monitor performance across several areas impacting hospital operations and finance.