Kirby Medical Center named one of the Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals
for Best Practice in Patient Satisfaction.
Kirby Medical Center in
Monticello, IL was recently named one of the Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) for
Best Practice in Patient Satisfaction– overall quality: a rating
of hospital performance based on the percentile rank across rural-relevant
process of care measures, patient perspective: a rating of hopsital performance
based on the percentile rank across all 10 HCAHPS domains in the country.
The Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals, including Kirby Medical Center, scored
best among critical access hospitals as determined by The Chartis Center
for Rural Health for Best Practice. The rankings were recently announced
by the National Rural Health Association (NRHA). An awards ceremony will
be held during NRHA’s Critical Access Hospital Conference in September
in Kansas City, Mo.
The Top 20 Critical Access Hospital “winners” are those hospitals
who have achieved success in the overall performance based on a composite
rating from eight indices of strength: inpatient market share, outpatient
market share, quality, outcomes, patient perspectives, cost, charge and
financial stability. This group was selected from The Chartis Center for
Rural Health’s 2019 Top 100 CAH list, which was released earlier
this year.
Those hospitals that have been recognized as Top 20 Critical Access Hospital
“best practice recipients” have achieved success one of two
key areas of performance:
Quality index: A rating of hospital performance based on the percentile rank across the
five categories of Hospital Compare Process of Care measures.
Patient perspective index: A rating of hospital performance based on the percentile rank on two Hospital
Compare HCAHPS measures (“Overall Rating” and “Highly
Recommend)”.
About the National Rural Health Association
NRHA is a nonprofit organization working to improve the health and wellbeing
of rural Americans and providing leadership on rural health issues through
advocacy, communications, education and research. NRHA membership is made
up of 21,000 diverse individuals and organizations, all of whom share
the common bond of an interest in rural health. For more information, visit
RuralHealthWeb.org.
About The Chartis Group
The Chartis Group® (Chartis) provides comprehensive advisory services
and analytics to the health care industry. With an unparalleled depth
of expertise in strategic planning, performance excellence, informatics
and technology, and health analytics, Chartis helps leading academic medical
centers, integrated delivery networks, children's hospitals and health
care service organizations achieve transformative results. Learn more at
Chartisrural.com.
