Molokai General Named Among Top Critical Access Hospitals

Queen’s Health System News Release 

The top 20 Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) nationwide, including Molokai General Hospital, scored best among CAHs as determined by the Chartis Center for Rural Health for Best Practice in Quality. The rankings were recently announced by the National Rural Health Association (NRHA). An awards ceremony will be held during NRHA’s Critical Access Hospital Conference in September in Kansas City, Mo. 

The top 20 CAHs have achieved success in overall performance based on a composite rating from eight indices of strength: inpatient market share, outpatient market share, quality, outcomes, patient perspective, cost, charge, and finance. This group was selected from the Chartis Center for Rural Health’s 2022 top 100 CAH list, which was released earlier this year.

The top 20 CAH best practice recipients have achieved success in one of two key areas of performance. Quality index is a rating of hospital performance based on the percentile rank across rural-relevant process of care measures. Patient perspective index is a rating of hospital performance based on the percentile rank across all 10 HCAHPS domains.

“Molokai General Hospital is proud of the efforts of the physicians, nurses and staff who have contributed to our hospital achieving this designation,” said Jan Kalanihuia, President of Molokai General Hospital. “Our results as a top critical access hospital means our community can count on us to deliver the services they need now and in the future.”