Avera Gettysburg

Avera Gettysburg's mission is to provide healthcare services to Gettysburg, South Dakota residents and residents of the surrounding counties including Potter, Sully, Faulk, and Dewey. Avera Gettysburg is a 501(c)(3) organization affiliated with Avera Health. Avera Gettysburg consists of a 7-bed critical access hospital, a physician clinic, and a 40-bed nursing home in Gettysburg, South Dakota. Avera Gettysburg provides acute care, swing-bed, and long-term healthcare services. Services include emergency department, surgery, x-ray, laboratory, CT, outpatient treatment, physical therapy, occupational therapy, ambulatory care, long-term care, and senior living apartments. Following is a breakdown of these statistics by facility:Avera Gettysburg Hospital 73 Acute patient discharges 54 Swing Bed patient discharges 5,501 Outpatient visits 629 Swing-bed patient days 4,674 Clinic visitsOahe Manor 12,431 Long-term resident days 16 Long Term Care patient dischargesAvera Gettysburg 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 $179,594.Avera Gettysburg 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 Gettysburg 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 Gettysburg 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.