Rather than pursuing a merger, Crisp Regional Health Services in Cordele, Ga., has decided to link up with a collaboration of 30 community hospitals, says President and CEO Steve Gautney.
West Park Hospital in Cody, Wyo., has excelled in a challenging environment for critical access institutions, tripling the size of its medical staff in recent years and putting more than $90 million toward updating its campus, says CEO Doug McMillan.
Todd Linden, president and CEO of Grinnell (Iowa) Regional Medical Center, outlines how rural hospital leaders might synthesize the lessons from the American Hospital Association's Rural Health Care Leadership Conference.
Tim Putnam, president and CEO of Margaret Mary Health, Batesville, Ind., explains the different roles that a critical access hospital's staff, management and board need to take on to keep operations in order and ready for the future, in a video interview with Marty Stempniak, senior writer for H&HN.