 "We are excited and proud to have earned this national recognition based on our
performance," said Dolan Dalpoas, the hospital's president and chief executive
officer. "Our employees, physicians and volunteers work together to serve the
needs of our patients, and have earned this honor through their commitment to
improve the health of the people and communities we serve."
Findings of the iVantage Health Analytics' study
on the nation's critical-access hospitals shed new, multidimensional light on
the characteristics of the 100 top-performing critical-access hospitals. The
2013 "Benchmark Performance for Critical Access Hospitals" study is a trending
study of the rural hospital industry. Key findings from the study include:
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Top 100 CAHs face the least
population-based demand for future health care services, while their quality
is near the top quartile when compared with all U.S. general acute care
hospitals.
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Top 100 CAH performance is in the top quartile of
all U.S. general acute-care hospitals in the financial and cost and charge
categories of the study.
"Small and rural hospitals play a critical role in providing efficient and
effective health care that is on par with other larger suburban and urban
counterparts," said John Morrow, executive vice president of iVantage Health
Analytics Inc. "Rural hospitals have new and difficult demands that are best
managed with actionable information.
"The Hospital Strength Index reflects the multiple challenges of running a
hospital by incorporating the measures on which the industry has worked to gain
consensus and standardization," he said.
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The Hospital Strength Index ranks all of the nation's more than
4,400 general acute-care hospitals, including more than 1,300
critical-access hospitals. The index is based on eight performance
categories measuring 56 different performance metrics. The index
offers hospital executives, trustees and boards of directors an
objective way to measure their relative performance internally and
among their peers.
"Measuring the effectiveness of our care delivery processes and
patient outcomes is vital to improving the quality of care we
provide to every patient, every day," Dalpoas said. "For our
performance to be measured against all others and to be recognized
through this analysis as one of the nation's best rural safety net
health care facilities provides the people of Lincoln and the
greater Logan County region with another important assurance of the
high-quality health care services that are available to them at
Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital."
[Text from file received from
Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital]
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