Case Study: Mt. San Rafael Hospital achieves 56% operating cost reduction and 99% system uptime with MEDHOST EHR

How Pioneering EHR Technology Can Improve Rural Healthcare

Mt. San Rafael Hospital, a 25‑bed Critical Access Hospital in Trinidad, Colorado, faced a legacy paper‑based record system, an overworked IT team, fragmented clinical workflows, poor patient data centralization and difficulty tracking lab results — all while racing against Meaningful Use deadlines. To modernize, Mt. San Rafael partnered with MEDHOST to deploy a fully integrated EHR (and later an EDIS), leveraging a strategic HIT implementation to drive digital transformation.

MEDHOST delivered the EHR, supported virtualization and rollout planning, and provided training, communication and ongoing support to overcome clinician resistance. The MEDHOST implementation cut operating costs by 56%, increased system uptime from 59% to 99%, enabled MU3 attestation and a HIMSS EMR Adoption Model Stage 6 achievement, and helped earn multiple Most Wired awards — outcomes Mt. San Rafael credits to MEDHOST’s technology and responsive partnership.

Mt. San Rafael Hospital

Michael Archuleta

Chief Information Officer