Hamiliton General Hospital was announced as one of the 20 highest-ranked critical access hospitals (CAHs) in the country, as determined by the Chartis Center for Rural Health.
The list was recently announced by the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) and an awards ceremony will be held during NRHA’s Critical Access Hospital Conference in September in Kansas City, Mo.
Hamilton General Hospital was the sole Texas hospital named on the list.
The determining factors for the top 20 CAHs are based on the results of the Chartis Rural Hospital Performance INDEX and its eight indices of performance: inpatient market share, outpatient market share, quality, outcomes, patient perspective, cost, charge, and finance.
This group of hospitals was selected from the Chartis Center for Rural Health’s 2022 top 100 CAH list, which was released earlier this year.
Forty best practice designations were also given to facilities that achieved success in one of two key areas of performance: 1) quality: a rating of hospital performance based on the percentile rank across ruralrelevant process of care measures, and 2) patient perspective: a rating of hospital performance based on the percentile rank across all 10 HCAHPS domains.
“NRHA is committed to ensuring our members have the best information to manage their hospitals,” says Brock Slabach, NRHA chief operations officer. “We’re pleased to recognize the accomplishments of these rural hospitals.”