20 Critical Access Hospitals With Top Patient Satisfaction

The following 20 hospitals were top performers in iVantage's Patient Perspectives Index, which rates hospital performance based on the percentile rank for two measures from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey — overall rating and percentage of patients who would highly recommend the hospital.

The National Rural Health Association recently named the" 59 Top Performing CAHs." Hospitals were chosen based on their performance on iVantage's Hosptial Strength Index.

Here are the top performers for patient perspectives:

Aspen (Colo.) Valley Hospital
Audubon (Iowa) County Memorial Hospital
Bigfork (Minn.) Valley Medical Center
Central Valley Medical Center (Nephi, Utah)
Charles A. Dean Memorial Hospital (Greenville, Maine)
Delta (Utah) Community Medical Center
Electra (Texas) Memorial Hospital
Fairview Hospital (Great Barrington, Mass.)
Grundy County Memorial Hospital (Grundy Center, Iowa)
Harbor Beach (Mich.) Community Hospital
McCune-Brooks Hospital (Carthage, Mo.)
Mount Desert Island Hospital (Bar Harbor, Maine)
Richland Parish Hospital (Delhi, La.)
Sabetha (Kan.) Community Hospital
Sanford Westbrook (Minn.) Medical Center
Spectrum Health United Memorial-Kelsey Campus (Lakeview, Mich.)
St. Elizabeth Medical Center (Wabasha, Minn.)
Tahoe Forest Hospital (Truckee, Calif.)
West Feliciana Parish Hospital (Saint Francisville, La.)
Whitman Hospital and Medical Center (Colfax, Wash.)

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