Brookings Health System Named Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital for Fourth Consecutive Year

  • March 04, 2019

Health system ranks in top 2% nationally

Members of the Inpatient Care multidisciplinary team at Brookings Health System gather during their daily team planning meeting to discuss how to best care for patients staying in the hospital. Collaboration like this between doctors, nurses, case managers, therapists, pharmacists, dietitian, chaplain and quality specialists ensures Brookings Health delivers patient care safely and with the best possible outcomes. Quality measures like daily team planning has established Brookings Health as a Top 100 Rural and Community Hospital for the fourth consecutive year.
Members of the Inpatient Care multidisciplinary team at Brookings Health System gather during their daily team planning meeting to discuss how to best care for patients staying in the hospital. Collaboration like this between doctors, nurses, case managers, therapists, pharmacists, dietitian, chaplain and quality specialists ensures Brookings Health delivers patient care safely and with the best possible outcomes. Quality measures like daily team planning has established Brookings Health as a Top 100 Rural and Community Hospital for the fourth consecutive year.

Brookings Health System was recently named one of the 2019 Top 100 Rural & Community Hospitals in the United States by The Chartis Center for Rural Health, ranking in the top two percent of all rural and community hospitals nationally. This is the fourth consecutive year Brookings Health has been included on the list.

“Reoccurring recognition for high-quality health care does not happen by chance,” said President and CEO Jason Merkley. “Our team works day-in and day-out to deliver the best possible health outcomes for our community. Focusing on quality, safety, performance and patient satisfaction has established us as a Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital.”

Hospitals recognized as Top 100 facilities scored in the top 100 among all rural and community hospitals nationally. Regarded as one of the industry’s most significant designations of performance excellence, the annual Top 100 award is based upon the results of the Hospital Strength INDEX® from iVantage Health Analytics. Now in its ninth year, the INDEX leverages 50 rural-relevant indicators across eight pillars of hospital strength (i.e. Inpatient Market Share, Outpatient Market Share, Cost, Charge, Quality, Outcomes, Patient Perspective and Financial Stability) to determine an overall score for each hospital. Each of the INDEX’s 50 indicators is culled from publicly-available data sources.

The list of this year’s Top 100 Rural & Community Hospitals, as well as the 2019 INDEX methodology, can be found at www.ivantageindex.com/top-performing-hospitals. More information about Brookings Health System’s care quality can be found at www.brookingshealth.org/Quality.

About Brookings Health System

Brookings Health System, located in Brookings, South Dakota, includes a 49-bed hospital, the 79-bed The Neighborhoods at Brookview nursing home, Brookhaven Estates senior living apartments, Yorkshire Eye Clinic, and medical clinics in Arlington, White and Volga, South Dakota. It is a non-profit, city-owned facility that offers the community a full range of inpatient, outpatient, surgical and extended care services. The emergency room is staffed 24 hours a day and provides around the clock patient needs ranging from minor injuries to life threatening crises. For more information about the services offered at Brookings Health System, please call (605) 696-9000 or visit us on the Web at brookingshealth.org.