Awards

Recent Awards and Recognition

Hospital Patient Satisfaction

  • National Rural Health Association Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals for Patient Satisfaction (2012-2014, 2016-2023)
  • National Rural Health Association Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals for Quality (2018)
  • Bigfork Valley Chiropractic (Mike Olson, DC) received recognition as a Center of Excellence by ChiroCare (2017-2023)
  • National Organization of State Office of Rural Health Performance Leadership Award for overall excellence in quality and patient perspective (2017)
  • Bigfork Valley was named a recipient of the Women’s Choice America’s Best 100 Hospitals for Patient Experience award (2011-2014, 2016-2019)

 

Designations

  • Bigfork Valley awarded CALS designation for continuing emergency skills improvement through the Comprehensive Advanced Life Support curriculum, 2011; renewed 2016 and in 2020.
  • Bigfork Valley designated as a level IV trauma facility, December 2012.
  • Listed on the Star Tribune Top Workplaces list as a National Standard Setter 2015, 2016.

Other awards

  • Healthcare Achievement Award for Financial and Operational Improvement within an Acute Care Critical Access Hospital-Amerinet
  • MN Department of Health (MDH) Antibiotic Stewardship Honor Roll recipient (2017-2023)