Oct. 22, 2009

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St. Cloud Hospital wins Consumer Choice award

St. Cloud, Minn. – St. Cloud Hospital has ranked top of the list in the Consumer Choice award given out by the National Research Corporation (NRC) and was recognized in the October 12th edition of Modern Healthcare magazine.

NRC awards hospitals whose consumers have recognized them for providing high quality health care. Consumers in St. Cloud have ranked St. Cloud Hospital at the top of the list based on four consumer metrics:

best overall quality;
best image and reputation;
best doctors; and
best nurses.

NRC’s Health Care Market Guide Ticker is the largest and most comprehensive study of its kind, surveying more than 200,000 households. Winners are determined by consumer perceptions on multiple quality and image ratings collected in the company’s Health Care Market Guide Ticker study.

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