Intermountain Garfield Hospital and Intermountain Heber Valley Hospital have been named as Top 100 Access Hospitals in America for 2024 by the Chartis Center for Rural Health.
The annual top access hospitals list by Chartis uses a variety of data to assess the strength of critical access hospitals including quality, outcomes, cost, and patient perspective among other factors.
Intermountain Garfield Hospital and Intermountain Heber Valley Hospital were two of only three Utah hospitals selected on this year’s list of top hospitals.
“This recognition is important to Intermountain Garfield Memorial Hospital as it demonstrates our caregivers’ ongoing dedication to our community,” said DeAnn Brown, president of Intermountain Garfield Memorial Hospital. “Our goal at Intermountain is to work together to bring care to patients no matter where they live.”
Critical Access Hospital is a designation given by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which is designed to reduce the financial vulnerability of rural hospitals and improve access to healthcare by keeping essential services in rural communities.
Intermountain has put a major focus on care at rural hospitals and expanded access to care through a large network of facilities and telehealth services to help improve patients’ ability to get the care they need, closer to home.
To see the Chartis full list of Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals, click here.
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About Intermountain Healthcare
Intermountain Healthcare is a nonprofit system of 33 hospitals, 385 clinics, medical groups with some 3,900 employed physicians and advanced care providers in seven states, a health plans division called SelectHealth with more than one million members, and other health services.
Intermountain is committed to helping people live the healthiest lives possible by improving community health and is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare by using evidence-based best practices to consistently deliver high-quality outcomes at sustainable costs.