MONROE — SSM Health Monroe Hospital has been named one of the 2023 Top 20 Rural & Community Hospitals in the United States by the National Rural Health Association. Regarded as one of the industry’s most significant designations of performance excellence, SSM Health Monroe Hospital is proud to have received the Top 100 recognition every year since 2016 and Top 20 recognition in 2021. 

“We are incredibly proud to be recognized at a national level for the excellent work our teams perform every day,” said Jane Curran-Meuli, President of SSM Health Monroe Hospital and SSM Health Monroe Clinic Medical Group. “Serving our patients and community remains our top priority and this award shows they can count on us to deliver high quality care now and in the future.” 

Based entirely on publicly available data evaluated by the Chartis Center for Rural Health, this review gives hospitals a score across eight pillars of hospital strength: inpatient market share, outpatient market share, quality, outcomes, patient perspective, cost, change and finance.