Avera McKennan

Avera McKennan's mission is to provide healthcare services to Sioux Falls, South Dakota residents and residents of the surrounding area. Avera McKennan is a 501(c)(3) organization affiliated with Avera Health. Avera McKennan consists of a 572-bed hospital, a 53-bed heart hospital and a 114-bed nursing home in Sioux Falls, SD. Major service lines include oncology, surgery, obstetrics, pediatrics, neonatology, emergency and trauma, critical care including EICU, radiology and diagnostic imaging, psychiatry, pulmonary, orthopedics, neurology, cardiology, and gastroenterology. Transplant services include solid organ (kidney, liver, and pancreas) and bone marrow transplant.Avera McKennan owns or leases rural critical hospitals and a nursing home in South Dakota including a 17-bed critical access hospital and a 30-bed nursing home in Gregory, SD, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Milbank, SD, a 23-bed critical access hospital in Dell Rapids, SD, an 18-bed critical access hospital in Flandreau, SD, an 11-bed critical access hospital in Miller, SD (Hand County), and an 11-bed critical access hospital in Rock Rapids, IA. Services offered by the rural critical access hospitals include radiology and imaging, colonoscopy and endoscopy, therapy and rehabilitation, 24-hour emergency care, chemotherapy, orthopedics, cardiovascular testing, surgery, dialysis, and obstetrics.In addition, Avera McKennan provides clinical care, secondary and primary, through physician clinics in South Dakota, Northwest Iowa, Southwest Minnesota, and Northeastern Nebraska. The physician clinics provide primary care and urgent care, and specialties such as cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, hepatology, infectious disease, internal medicine, neonatology, nephrology, neurology, ob/gyn, oncology, ophthalmology, pediatrics, orthopedics, pain management, psychiatry, pulmonology, general surgery, and vascular services. Following is a breakdown of these statistics by facility:Avera McKennan Hospital 25,566 Acute patient discharges 1,862 Newborn patient discharges 448,336 Outpatient visits 3,623 Newborn patient days 855,054 Clinic visitsAvera Heart Hospital 2,590 Acute patient discharges 13,370 Outpatient visits 70,552 Clinic visitsAvera Prince of Peace 36,034 Long-term care resident days 382 Long-term care patient dischargesAvera Gregory Hospital (CAH) 257 Acute patient discharges 76 Swing-bed patient discharges 9,489 Outpatient visits 681 Swing-bed patient days 14,691 Clinic visitsAvera Rosebud Country Care Center 10,155 Long-term care resident days 17 Long-term care patient dischargesAvera Milbank Hospital (CAH) 343 Acute patient discharges 48 Newborn patient discharges 93 Swing-bed patient discharges 18,521 Outpatient visits 71 Newborn patient days 609 Swing-bed patient days 23,032 Clinic visitsAvera Dell Rapids Hospital (CAH) 106 Acute patient discharges 33 Swing-bed patient discharges 9,491 Outpatient visits 390 Swing-bed patient days 12,602 Clinic visitsAvera Flandreau Hospital (CAH) 121 Acute patient discharges 17 Swing-bed patient discharges 8,443 Outpatient visits 224 Swing-bed patient days 8,715 Clinic visitsAvera Hand County Hospital (CAH) 200 Acute patient discharges 61 Swing-bed patient discharges 9,686 Outpatient visits 400 Swing-bed patient days 8,515 Clinic visitsAvera Merrill Pioneer Hospital (CAH) 74 Acute patient discharges 38 Swing-bed patient discharges 7,695 Outpatient visits 376 Swing-bed patient days 6,499 Clinic visitsAvera McKennan maintains records to identify and monitor the level of charity care it provides. These records include the amount of charges forgone for services and supplies furnished under its charity care policy and equivalent service statistics. The amount of charges foregone, based on established rates, were $74,322,965.Avera McKennan also provides community benefit health activities at less than or at no cost to support those in the area serviced, see Schedule H. As a member of the Avera Health Network, Avera McKennan upholds the vision of the Presentation and Benedictine Sisters to work through collaboration to provide quality, effective health ministry, and to improve the healthcare of individuals and our communities through a regionally integrated network of persons and institutions. Avera McKennan engages in activities designed to improve the health of individuals and communities in response to a calling to heal the sick, the elderly, and the oppressed.