Dr. Don Wood, Director of the Utah Department of Health’s Office of Primary Care and Rural Health (OPCRH) says, “These recognitions for Utah’s rural hospitals remind us that health care delivered in rural communities is affordable, high quality, and necessary to the continued good health of the entire community. These hospitals should serve as role models to all hospitals.”
Each year, rural hospitals are ranked by the Hospital Strength INDEXTM, the industry’s most comprehensive and objective assessment of hospital performance in the United States. The release of this information coincides with National Rural Health Week, November 15-21, 2015.
In addition, 19 Utah hospitals received recognition for reaching top quartile performance status in Quality, Outcomes, Patient Satisfaction, and Financial Strength, as compared to all other acute care hospitals in the nation.
Those facilities include:
• Ashley Regional Medical Center – Outcomes, Financial Strength
• Bear River Valley Hospital – Quality, Outcomes, Patient Satisfaction, Financial Strength
• Beaver Valley Hospital – Outcomes
• Castleview Hospital – Quality, Financial Strength
• Central Valley Medical Center – Patient Satisfaction, Financial Strength
• Delta Community Medical Center – Outcomes, Patient Satisfaction
• Fillmore Community Medical Center – Outcomes, Patient Satisfaction
• Garfield Memorial Hospital – Quality, Patient Satisfaction
• Gunnison Valley Hospital – Outcomes, Patient Satisfaction, Financial Strength
• Heber Valley Medical Center – Patient Satisfaction, Financial Strength
• Kane County Hospital – Financial Strength
• Milford Valley Memorial Hospital – Outcomes, Financial Strength
• Moab Regional Hospital – Outcomes
• Mountain West Medical Center – Financial Strength
• Park City Medical Center – Outcomes, Patient Satisfaction, Financial Strength
• San Juan Hospital – Outcomes
• Sanpete Valley Hospital – Outcomes, Patient Satisfaction
• Sevier Valley Medical Center – Quality, Outcomes, Patient Satisfaction, Financial Strength
• Valley View Medical Center – Quality, Outcomes, Patient Satisfaction, Financial Strength
Since 2010, 50 rural and critical care access hospitals have closed throughout the United States. Wood says, “Fortunately, Utah is one of the states in which a rural hospital has never closed. We want to maintain these hospitals because they provide extraordinary care and also contribute to the economies of our rural communities.”
Owen Quiñonez
Community Health Specialist
Office (801) 273-6620
Cell (801) 560-5935
