The administration of Paulding County Hospital thinks it is important to compare the costs, patient outcomes and financial stability of PCH with other hospitals in Ohio and the United States. IVantage Health Analytics, an independent hospital rating company, has recently released their data regarding the Top 100 HealthStrong Critical Access Hospitals in the United States. Paulding County Hospital overall ranked 6th among the 33 Critical Access Hospitals in Ohio. The categories ranked were Market Strength, Value-Based Strength and Financial Strength. Notable was that Paulding County Hospital ranked 1st in Ohio among Critical Access Hospitals in the Cost & Charge Index. This measures PCH’s affordability and efficiency, while still ranking in the upper half of our peers in the overall clinical outcomes of our patients. To put this in more simple terms, we are a lower cost healthcare provider that has good patient outcomes. PCH also ranked in the upper quarter nationally in Financial Stability which measures the hospital’s financial viability. The data presented was gathered by IVantage from publicly accessible data bases such as MedPar and the Medicare Cost Report.
Paulding County Hospital CEO Gary Adkins stated, “The mission and vision of our hospital is to continually improve the health status of the residents of our area by providing local access to high quality affordable care. We are pleased that our efforts are leading to success not only with affordability but with clinical outcomes as well. We will continue to strive to be the best hospital we can be in the New Year.”
