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Strategic Marketing for Rural Hospitals

In today’s competitive healthcare market, rural and community hospitals are making do with less. Marketing resources are no exception. It’s not uncommon for smaller hospitals to lack a formal marketing...


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John Yeary, CEO, Freestone Medical Center

Service Isn’t Seasonal: Give Back to the Community All Year Round

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By John Yeary, CEO, Freestone Medical Center

The holidays are a time for giving and gathering. However, for hospitals, community involvement and giving back should be year-round priorities....


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Community Hospitals Are Economic Engines. How Are You Fueling Yours?

Metaphors commonly used to describe community hospitals underscore their importance to the regions they serve. They’ve been called economic engines, cornerstones of the community, and, by Forbes, the “financial glue”...


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Podcast

Rural Matters Podcast Features Karen Barber & Jim Kendrick

Rural Matters, a podcast featuring issues important to Rural America, recently spoke to Karen Barber, CEO of Yoakum Community Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Texas, and Jim Kendrick, president...


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Rural America Needs Critical Access Hospitals

Rural America Needs Critical Access Hospitals

By guest author Paul Lee, Senior Partner & Founder, Strategic Health Care

National policy in support of rural healthcare has been lacking for more than a decade. Critical access hospitals...


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Case Study

Yoakum Community Hospital: Rural Texas Hospital Is a Model Of Success

THE SITUATION

Over the past several years, small community hospitals in rural areas across the United States have been struggling to stay afloat. Yoakum Community Hospital was no...


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Solutions

CHC Helps Hospitals Dial Down Telecom Expenses

Internet and telecommunications services are essential for rural and community hospitals to offer the highest quality of medical care to their respective areas. However, research shows that an estimated 25-30%...


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Case Study

Rural hospital leverages federal funding to save on telecom services, provide better care: Yoakum Community Hospital, Yoakum, TX

The Situation

Yoakum Community Hospital’s (YCH) antiquated data network and low-speed internet fell short of meeting today’s healthcare industry demands, including use of electronic health records. YCH needed...


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Community Hospital: Small Hospital Realizes Big Healthcare Supply Chain Savings

Situation

Community Hospital in McCook, Nebraska, previously purchased its supplies and services from a nationwide hospital network. As part of the network’s supply contracting company and group purchasing organization...


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Striving for Quality Care

By Brian Cunningham,
CEO, Wahiawa General Hospital

I arrived in Hawaii in mid-August to assume my new role as the permanent CEO of Wahiawa General Hospital, and almost immediately,...


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