December 21, 2023 – The American Hospital Affiliation (AHA) introduced the workforce from Queen's North Hawai'i Group Hospital, a 35-bed rural acute care hospital in Waimea (Kamuela) on Hawaii Island, because the recipient of the Rural Hospital in 2023. Management Crew Award. The award acknowledges small or rural hospital leaders who information their hospitals and communities by way of change and innovation.

The winners reveal excellent management, responsiveness to the well being wants of their communities and a collaborative course of that has led to measurable outcomes. The award can be offered in the course of the thirty seventh annual AHA Rural Well being Care Management Convention, held Feb. 11-14 in Orlando.

Queen's North Hawai'i Group Hospital serves a inhabitants that’s roughly 30% Hawaiian, with some communities in its service space having even increased percentages. Native Hawaiians expertise huge well being disparities with poorer well being standing, the next danger of persistent illness, and a life expectancy seven years shorter than everybody else within the state. Hawaii Island faces important disparities in entry to well being care because of supplier shortages, restricted well being care companies, and transportation challenges. Guided by the Kahua Ola (Fundamental of Well being Care) Plan and Hawaii's Group Well being Wants Evaluation, Queen's North Hawai'i Group Hospital carried out initiatives to remove current well being disparities and enhance the standard of life for weak sufferers with complicated well being care wants .

The AHA Rural Hospital Management Award additionally acknowledged Windfall Alaska's groups in Seward, Valdez and Kodiak, Alaska, and CEO Ella Goss; Cass Well being in Atlantic, Iowa, and CEO Brett Altman; and Hannibal Regional Healthcare System in Hannibal, Mo., and President and CEO Todd Ahrens as finalists.

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