Performance Leadership Award for Quality
Unity Medical Center has been recognized by The Chartis Center of Rural Health and the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) with a 2023 Performance Leadership Award for Quality and Patient Perspective.
The Performance Leadership Award is based on the results of the Hospital Strength INDEX, which is a comprehensive and objective methodology developed by the Chartis Group for assessing how rural hospitals are performing. The INDEX is based entirely on public data sources (no surveys or questionnaires etc. are used) and it encompasses all 1800 Critical Access Hospitals in the US along with ~900 rural and community facilities. There are eight performance pillars in the areas of (quality, outcomes, patient perspective) and Chartis percentile ranks each hospital’s performance against the full cohort of rural hospitals. Award winners are those facilities that ranked in the top quartile (75th percentile or above) in either quality, outcomes or patient perspective.