ALMH among nation's best rural hospitals
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[March 19, 2013]
Abraham Lincoln Memorial
Hospital has been recognized by iVantage Health Analytics as one of
the nation's 100 best-performing critical-access hospitals. The
honor is based on iVantage's Hospital Strength Index and its
measures of market conditions, clinical and operational performance,
and financial and qualitative outcomes.
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"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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