Augusta Healthy: Local hospital one of a few not struggling in Virginia

Many of Virginia's acute care and rural hospitals are struggling financially, according to numbers released this week by Virginia Health information. However, Augusta Health in Fishersville is not one of those struggling hospitals. The hospital's board chairman attributes Augusta Health's continued financial success to strong management and the leadership of the community-based hospital board. Virginia Health Information reports that in calendar year 2014, 25 percent of Virginia's acute care hospitals and nearly 42 percent of the commonwealth's rural hospitals operated in the red. Augusta Health meanwhile recorded net revenues and gains of nearly $75 million in 2014, according to Virginia Health Information.