The National Rural Health Association recently announced Olympic Medical Center one of the Top 20 Rural Community Hospitals in the country.

The Top 20 Rural Community Hospitals, including OMC, scored best among Prospective Payment System hospitals (rural community, non-Critical Access Hospitals) on iVantage Health Analytics’ Hospital Strength Index™.

Olympic Medical’s Lorraine Wall, RN, chief nursing officer and hospital chief operations officer, and Scott Kennedy, MD, chief medical officer and chief safety officer, will be on hand to receive the award during a ceremony at the NRHA’s Rural Hospital Innovation Summit conference in May.

The Top 20 Rural Community Hospital winners are those hospitals who achieved success in the overall performance based on a composite rating from eight indicators of strength: inpatient market share, outpatient market share, quality, outcomes, patient perspectives, costs, charges and financial stability. The group was selected from iVantage’s Top 100 Rural Community Hospital list released earlier this year.

“This is a huge honor and shows the outstanding work of the employees and medical staff we have here at Olympic Medical Center,” said Eric Lewis, chief executive officer.

“Our rural community deserves to have a high-caliber, quality medical community and we work hard to reliably deliver needed services now and in the future.”

In February, OMC was named to the 2017 Top 100 Rural &Community Hospitals in the US by the National Rural Health Association’s Rural Health Policy Institute, iVantage Health Analytics and The Chartis Center for Rural Health. Olympic Medical Center was the only hospital from Washington named in the report.