Ashley Regional Medical Center Earns Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital Award for Eighth Year from The Chartis Center for Rural Health
February 21, 2024
Vernal, Utah (February 21, 2024) – Ashley Regional Medical Center (ARMC) has been recognized as a 2024 Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital by The Chartis Center for Rural Health for the eighth consecutive year. Chartis’ annual Top 100 award program recognizes outstanding performance among the nation’s rural hospitals based on the results of the Chartis Rural Hospital Performance INDEX®.
“The team is meticulously focused on high-quality patient care,” said Alan Olive, CEO of Ashley Regional Medical Center. “Being recognized for eight straight years is an extraordinary accomplishment, and it’s an honor to be in that ranking with just five other Utah hospitals. The ARMC physicians, providers and staff have diligently worked to achieve this success, and I’m proud to be working alongside each of them.”
“During an era of profound uncertainty for rural healthcare, the Top 100 rural hospitals continue to provide a unique lens through which we can identify innovation and inspiration for how to deliver high-quality care to increasingly vulnerable populations,” said Michael Topchik, National Leader, The Chartis Center for Rural Health. “We’re delighted to be able to recognize all this year’s Top 100 but especially the more than 40 first-time recipients across both categories. It’s wonderful to see so many new facilities join the ranks of our Top 100 alumni.”
Now in its 14th year, the INDEX is the industry’s most comprehensive and objective assessment of rural hospital performance. Featuring a methodology utilizing publicly available data, the INDEX is leveraged nationwide by rural hospitals, health systems with rural affiliates, hospital associations, and state offices of rural health to measure and monitor performance across a variety of areas impacting hospital operations and finance.
About Ashley Regional Medical Center
Through its 39-bed, Joint Commission-accredited acute care facility and physician practices, Ashley Regional Medical Center provides inpatient and outpatient services to the populations of Uintah, Duchesne and Daggett counties in Utah and Rio Blanco County in Colorado. Ashley Regional has been serving the Basin for more than 80 years and is a designated Level IV trauma center, an Accredited Chest Pain Center and has been designated as a Stroke Receiving Facility by the Utah State Department of Health. The healthcare workers provide safe, high-quality patient care across labor and delivery, surgery, imaging, outpatient care, the 24/7/365 emergency room and many other specialties. Ashley Regional has been recognized for excellence in quality indicators and measures, including being named a Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital for eight consecutive years by Chartis Center for Rural Health and a 2023 Top 20 Rural & Community Hospital by the National Rural Health Association.