Hough recognized nationally as top performing healthcare administrator

CEO Nathan Hough of the Crook County Medical Services District has been selected to receive the Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award from the American College of Healthcare Administration (ACHCA). The award recognizes Hough as one of the top performing healthcare administrators in the nation.

To be eligible for the award, a nominee must be performing among the top seven percent in America. This year, a total of 1111 facilities across the nation met the selection criteria.

Only three of these are located in Wyoming, with Crook County’s long term care unit joining Legacy Living and Rehabilitation in Gillette and the Cody Regional Health Long Term Care Center on the list. Recipients are thus among an elite group of healthcare leaders nationally.

The award was introduced in 2008 when Pick worked with the organization to develop an awards program that “uses data-driven criteria to objectively identify high-performing Skilled Nursing Facilities and the leaders who make them excel”.

The facility must score among the top 25 percent in the nation for quality measures ranging from patient pain levels to improvement in function over the course of a short-term stay.

Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award recipients are identified using publicly collected data by the Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which is pulled and evaluated by an independent third party.