Our distinctions are your advantage
At Great Plains Health, we are continually focused on advancing and improving the healthcare we deliver every day. Whether it's implementing new technology to improve efficiency or evaluating new ways to improve patient care and customer service, our philosophy is to remain steadfastly focused on finding better ways to improve the patient experience. Continued emphasis on quality, outcomes, patient safety, service and delivery of care has made us west central Nebraska's regional healthcare destination.
Focused on advancing and improving healthcare every day.
While our commitment is the patients we serve, our dedication has earned us accolades on local, state and national levels. Below are just a few of our honors, accreditations and designations:
- CMS-designated Birthing-Friendly Hospital 2025
- Nebraska Hospital Association Quest for Excellence Award for mortality 2025
- Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award, American Heart Association, 2025
- Rural Coronary Artery Disease NSTEMI-Acute Coronary Syndrome Gold Award
- Rural Coronary Artery Disease STEMI-Acute Coronary Syndrome Gold Award
- Rural Coronary Artery Disease NSTEMI- Bronze Award
- Rural Coronary Artery Disease STEMI- Bronze Award
- Rural Health Stroke Care- Silver Award
- Stroke GOLD PLUS with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite
- Stroke Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
- Nebraska Hospital Association Quest for Excellence Award for:
- Mortality Reduction Initiative, 2025
- Chest Pain Patient Flow Initiative, 2022
- Diagnostic imaging guidelines, 2019
- Antibiotic stewardship, 2017
- Fall reduction, 2015
- Reduction of medication errors, 2012
- Sepsis, 2011
- Fully accredited by CIHQ under its acute care hospital program.
- Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program, Comprehensive Center 2022.
- American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC) accreditation 2024.
- CIHQ accreditation in Joint Replacement Surgery.
- CIHQ accredited Primary Stroke Center.
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Distinction Center of Excellence for Hip and Knee Replacement.
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Distinction Center of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery.
- American Academy of Sleep Medicine Accredited Sleep Center
- College of American Pathologist