News : Healthstrong: Virginia Gay Hospital among Top Performers

Virginia Gay Hospital was recently recognized by iVantage Health Analytics as a HealthStrong™ Award winner for Excellence in Efficiency, reflecting top quartile performance among all acute care hospitals in the nation.

The award is based on outstanding performance in the following areas: Overall Excellence, Excellence in Quality, Excellence in Outcomes, Excellence in Patient Satisfaction, and Excellence in Efficiency. “As a leader in rural healthcare, Virginia Gay Hospital and Clinics continually strives for excellence and this award simply acknowledges what we hear from our patients, healthcare providers and staff,” says Mike Riege, CEO. He continues, “We’re proud of our accomplishments and we’re resolute in our commitment to providing superior healthcare opportunities for our community.”

iVantage Health announced the latest HealthStrong Award™ winners at the annual meeting of the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health held this October in Asheville, NC. The HealthStrong Awards are based on The Hospital Strength Index™, a national ratings program developed by iVantage to recognize top performing hospitals based on key metrics critical to success in the new healthcare marketplace. The Hospital Strength Index ranks all 4,400+ U.S. general acute care hospitals, including the 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.

Small and rural hospitals play a critical role in providing efficient and effective healthcare that is comparable to its larger urban counterparts. “Rural hospitals have new and difficult demands that can only be managed with better 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,” said John Morrow, executive vice president of iVantage Health Analytics, Inc.

About iVantage Health Analytics
iVantage Health Analytics® is a privately held company serving more than 500 hospitals across the United States. iVantage Health provides comprehensive and objective information products to help hospitals and health systems improve performance our unique approach connects executive dashboards, hospital and system-level market analytics, clinical benchmarking, physician scorecards and off-quality cost analysis to deliver new perspectives for managing under the New Healthcare.

For more details about iVantage Health Analytics or the Hospital Strength Index or to schedule an interview, please call Amy Weickert, at 207-245-6769 or email at aweickert@ivantagehealth.com.

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