Kirby Medical Center Earns 2024 Performance Leadership Awards from The Chartis Center for Rural Health

Monticello, Illinois, November 21, 2024 – As part of National Rural Health Day, Kirby Medical Center today announced it earned two 2024 Performance Leadership Awards for excellence in Quality and Patient Perspective. Compiled by The Chartis Center for Rural Health, the Performance Leadership Awards recognize top quartile performance (i.e., 75^th percentile or above) among rural hospitals in Quality, Outcomes and/or Patient Perspective.

“It is wonderful to be recognized not only by Chartis for outstanding quality and patient satisfaction, but also recognized by our patients for the great care they receive. I am blessed by the team we have at Kirby Medical Center and this award recognizes them for the difference they make every day,” said Steve Tenhouse, Kirby Medical Center Chief Executive Officer.

The Performance Leadership Awards are based on the results of the Chartis Rural Hospital Performance INDEX®, a comprehensive and objective framework for assessing how rural hospitals are performing. INDEX benchmarks are relied upon by rural hospitals, health systems with rural footprints, hospital associations, and state offices of rural health to measure performance across multiple areas impacting hospital operations and finance.

“The Performance Leadership Awards capture the commitment, diligence, and innovation with which America’s rural hospitals approach the delivery of care within their communities,” said Troy Brown, Network Consultant, The Chartis Center for Rural Health. “It’s a tremendous honor to be able to recognize the efforts of this year’s award winners and celebrate their achievement as part of National Rural Health Day.”

Kirby Medical Center is an independent not-for-profit acute care hospital that, over the 80 years of caring for families in Piatt County and the surrounding areas, has been nationally recognized for outstanding quality, patient satisfaction, and employee engagement.