ALEXANDRIA BAY â For the first time, River Hospital was recognized as a Top 100 Critical Access Hospital by The Chartis Center for Rural Health in April, and was the only New York hospital to be included.
Now, it has gone a step further and has been named to the top 20 Critical Access Hospitals in the United States.
River Hospital has been ranked in the 99th percentile among the more than 1,300 Critical Access Hospitals in the United States. Of the 18 Critical Access Hospitals in New York state, River Hospital is the only one on the list.
Emily E. Mastaler has been River Hospitalâs president and chief executive officer since September 2019 and said the hospital is absolutely thrilled to hear the news about being in the top 20 Critical Access Hospitals in the nation.
ALEXANDRIA BAY â For the first time, River Hospital has been recognized as a 2021 Top 100 Critical Access Hospital by The Chartis Center for Rural Health, and was the only New York hospital to be included.
The 11th annual recognition program honors outstanding performance among the nationâs rural hospitals based on the results of the Hospital Strength Index. Based entirely on publicly available data, the index is the industryâs most comprehensive and objective assessment of rural hospital performance.
These top performers, excelling in managing risk, achieving higher quality, securing better outcomes, increasing patient satisfaction and operating at a lower cost than their peers are meant to serve as a benchmark for other rural facilities as they strive to achieve similar results and provide a blueprint for successfully navigating the uncertainty of the new health care.
WATERTOWN â In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health care centers were learning about the virus in real time.
While there was confusion and fear, there was also the underlying notion that society needed to move forward and work together to make it through the largest public health crisis in 100 years.
North country health care providers, while they dealt with a smaller number of patients compared with other hospitals in the state early on in the pandemic, many have been met with challenges along the way. The challenges span a wide spectrum, including financial strain, the canceling of elective surgeries, the lack of personal protective equipment and furloughs. But local health centers have adapted and grown in ways that will carry them into the future of health care in the region.
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