West River Health Services in Hettinger was recently named one of the Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in the country.
The top 20 CAHs, including West River Health Services, scored best among CAHs as determined by The Chartis Center for Rural Health. 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 CAHs have achieved success in overall performance based on a composite rating from eight indices of strength: inpatient market share, outpatient market share, quality, outcomes, patient perspective, cost, charge, and finance. This group was selected from the Chartis Center for Rural Health's 2022 top 100 CAH list, which was released earlier this year.
The top 20 CAH best practice recipients have achieved success in one of two key areas of performance:
Quality index: A rating of hospital performance based on the percentile rank across the rural-relevant process of care measures.
Patient perspective index: A rating of hospital performance based on the percentile rank across all 10 HCAHPS domains.
"West River Health Services is proud of the efforts of our entire team during incredibly difficult circumstances," says Matt Shahan, CEO. Being recognized as a Top 20 CAH is something that the communities that we serve can be proud of."
About West River Health Services (WRHS)
West River Health Services is a nationally recognized rural healthcare organization serving the residents of Southwest North Dakota and Northwest South Dakota, based in Hettinger. The organization operates a 25-bed critical access hospital (acute, ICU, labor, and delivery) complemented by clinic operations in Bowman, Scranton, New England, Mott, and Lemmon, SD. WRHS offers a multi-specialty group practice in Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, OBGYN, General Surgery, Podiatry, an onsite Radiologist, and Optometry services. The organization collaborates with the University Of North Dakota School Of Medicine to train Resident Physicians in a rural setting through the Rural Training Track as well as third and fourth-year medical students through the Rural Opportunities in Medical Education (ROME) program. West River Health Services offers speech, physical, and occupational therapy, cardiac rehab, state-of-the-art radiology, laboratory services, stress testing, sleep studies, and behavioral health services. Visiting Physicians offer orthopedics, cardiology, and audiology services. The health system encompasses home nursing care, assisted living, and a skilled nursing facility.