The Leader in Rural Healthcare Consulting

For more than 40 years, Stroudwater has partnered with healthcare leaders to strengthen financial performance, operations, and clinical and quality outcomes.

Rural Healthcare Featured Insights

The State of Rural Provider Compensation in 2025

Stroudwater Associates, in partnership with the NRHA and NOSORH, developed a physician and advanced practice provider compensation survey for rural organizations.

Planning and Financing a Successful Capital Project

Capital needs remain, and delays only increase costs. Many rural organizations, however, start facility planning by calling the architect first…

Provider Compensation Redesign for Two Critical Access Hospitals in Mountain Communities

Balancing Regulatory Risk and Strategic Alignment Challenge: The Catalyst for Change In today’s healthcare landscape, the friction between financial sustainability…

Trusted by Rural Health Leaders Nationwide

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Evidence-Based Solutions for Measurable Success

No other firm delivers Stroudwater’s level of expertise, experience, and innovation specific to rural & community healthcare. By improving and advancing strategy, operations, finance, clinical & quality, and data & analytics within rural & community healthcare, we support rural providers in offering the highest quality sustainable care to their patients and communities.

Proven Return on Investment

For nearly 42 hospitals participating in financial and operational assessments over the past 3 years, the median value of financial improvement identified was approximately $2.4m, equating to nearly 8% of net patient revenue. Our work consistently delivers strong return on investment while helping rural hospitals regain stability, improve care delivery, and protect access for their communities.

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Real Voices, Real Community Impact

Sustaining Rural Labor & Delivery Programs: Strategies & Considerations

Sixth Annual Virtual CAH Conference

"We are a Critical Access Hospital on a small Hawaiian island often feeling isolated from what is happening in the rest of the country. For 22 years, we have relied on Stroudwater to advise us on quality and fiscal isssues in addition to what they see across the country in terms of viable programs and services. They are absolutely the best."

"As with many small, rural & community hospitals, Alleghany Health does not have the in-house expertise to support complex initiatives such as Price Transparency. Stroudwater responded immediately to our call for assistance and worked with us tirelessly to address the reported violation. With Stroudwater’s constant guidance and support, we were successful in correcting the issue and having a posting that meets CMS requirements.”

“We really needed the expertise that the Stroudwater team brought to us to achieve the goal that we set out to accomplish. It calmed our fears knowing that Stroudwater was an expert in what they were doing so we could focus on other issues going on within the hospital.”

“Stroudwater really knows Rural Healthcare and Critical Access. Because their team is so knowledgeable, they facilitate and can also participate. They were a great partner all the way around.”

“Our partnership with Stroudwater accelerated conversations with the board and community by at least a year and a half. It’s enabled us to think two steps ahead on the future of our facilities.”

“Stroudwater’s knowledge and expertise complements each other very well, and what could have felt like an overwhelming project wasn’t with their help. Having a knowledgable and fun team to work with made for an enjoyable project. I truly enjoyed working with them.”