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34 CRITICAL ACCESS named it as a Top 20 Critical Access Hospital. St. Mary's Hospital and Clinics (Cottonwood, Ida- ho). is hospital and its sister hospital, Clearwater Valley Hospital in Orofino, Idaho, are both affiliates of Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health. Together, the two hospitals have eight satellite medical clinics and four physical therapy clinics. St. Mary's Hospi- tal has a four-star rating for patient satisfaction on CMS' Hospital Compare, based on HCAHPS survey responses. is year, St. Mary's and Clearwater Valley expanded their telehealth program to include stroke. e program is coordinated through Providence Sa- cred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash. Steele Memorial Medical Center (Salmon, Idaho). Founded in 1950, Steele Memorial Medical Center is a nonprofit 18-bed hospital with an associated rural health clinic. e hospital opened in its cur- rent building in October 2004. SMMC is the sec- ond-largest employer in Salmon, with more than 150 employees. SMMC has earned several recognitions of excellence in recent years, including being named an iVantage Health Analytics Top 100 Critical Access Hospital as well as the National Rural Health Associ- ation naming it a Top 20 Critical Access Hospital this year. Studer Group also gave SMMC its Excellence in Patient Care Award in 2015. Redington-Fairview General Hospital (Skowhegan, Maine). is independent hospital has served the residents of Somerset County since 1952. While today it has 25 beds, in the past its capacity reached as high as 92 beds. e hospital has the distinction of holding a place both on iVantage Health Analytics' Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals list and the Nation- al Rural Health Association's list of Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals this year. In fact, Redington-Fair- view has been on iVantage's list each year since the list started five years ago. Richland Hospital (Richland Center, Wis.). e CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITALS by the numbers 25 Max number of inpatient beds allowed 96 Max annual average length of stay, in hours, per patient for acute care 35 Min distance, in miles, between a CAH and another hospital in most instances 101 percent of reasonable costs critical access hospitals are paid for most inpatient and outpatient services to Medicare patients Source: HHS