Sunflower Rural Health Clinic Wins a Lilypad Award

By Robyn Marlow

It’s awards season. Right in between the Emmys, Golden Globes and Oscars, Lilypad – a healthcare analytics firm – announces the Lilypad Awards. And it’s a big freaking deal.

This week, Sunflower Rural Health Clinic in Ruleville was honored to receive a Lilypad Award, designating it as one of the top 5 provider-based rural health clinics in the Southeast — and one of the top 50 rural health clinics in the country.

Lilypad Award

The Lilypad Award analyzes data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid program to calculate the top-performing rural health clinics in the nation. Data is taken from the 4,400 rural health clinics across the country that are reviewed in the December 2019 Medicare Cost Report.

Gregory Wolf, founder and President of Lilypad, LLC said in the press release announcing this year’s winners, “The Lilypad Awards seek to fill this data gap and shed new light on the relative performance among Rural Health Clinics. We feel it is time to recognize high performing clinics as a catalyst for future improvement and investment. Our rural healthcare delivery system relies on affordable access to high-quality primary care services and Rural Health Clinics play a vital role in strengthening our rural safety net.”

Obviously, we agree.

“We try every day to provide our patients with the best care anywhere,” said Billy Marlow, Executive Director of North Sunflower Medical Center, which operates the Sunflower Rural Health Clinic. “We are proud to have this recognition, and will remain focused on our number one goal – excellent patient care.”

Lilypad also recognized Mississippi as one of five top-performing states rural health care states, joining Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, and Louisiana. According to Lilypad, “The clinics in these states represent the top performing clinic cohorts in terms of cost-effectiveness and operational efficiency”. Chant along with us, S-E-C! S-E-C! S-E-C!

All of us are extremely proud of our dedicated employees and team leaders at Sunflower Rural Health Clinic. They all give us so many reasons to say “Take me to Ruleville.”