Winona Health has been serving the community for 113 years, boasts impressively efficient information systems and is at the forefront of the US healthcare revolution.
Written by Ben O'Hanlon and Produced by James McCann
Winona Health is a non-profit organization, offering care services to the town of Winona, Minnesota. Its history reaches back as far as 1894, when local residents raised money to establish an 18-bed general hospital. Since then, investment has seen many additions; assets now include a 99-bed hospital, a 154-bed nursing home, three assisted living facilities, clinics, a pharmacy and a host of related healthcare services.
The Full Package
Today, Winona is still community-owned, run by a voluntary board of directors and independent of the large healthcare systems. It is operated at primary care level, which excludes staff from performing serious operations such as heart surgery or running a burns unit. However, its portfolio of services does include providing emergency care, nutrition education, rehabilitation and a sleep lab. Winona also works in partnership with two other hospitals nearby in order to offer a complete service to residents.
And if the local community wants evidence that its health service is performing, they need only look as far as the overcrowded awards cabinet. Some of 2007’s most notable achievements include being honored as one of the ‘Most Innovative Acute Care Hospitals’ in the country (according to FierceHealthcare), receiving the Minnesota Quality Award and the award for Health Care’s Most Wired Small & Rural Hospitals, relating to the use of technology (an accolade that has been bestowed for the past six years running).
A Changing World
President and CEO Rachelle Schultz joined the organization five and a half years ago from Banner Health System, a multi-state healthcare provider. Rachelle has nearly twenty years…
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