$1.5B in expenses

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 618-bed hospital, a 53-bed heart hospital and a 126-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 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 26,244 Acute patient discharges 1,903 Newborn patient discharges 493,038 Outpatient visits 3,615 Newborn patient days 895,624 Clinic visitsAvera Heart Hospital 2,858 Acute patient discharges 19,106 Outpatient visits 78,166 Clinic visitsAvera Prince of Peace 39,891 Long-term care resident days 392 Long-term care patient dischargesAvera Gregory Hospital (CAH) 271 Acute patient discharges 90 Swing-bed patient discharges 11,435 Outpatient visits 645 Swing-bed patient days 15,152 Clinic visitsAvera Rosebud Country Care Center 9,998 Long-term care resident days 25 Long-term care patient dischargesAvera Milbank Hospital (CAH) 294 Acute patient discharges 42 Newborn patient discharges 82 Swing-bed patient discharges 18,433 Outpatient visits 60 Newborn patient days 608 Swing-bed patient days 20,246 Clinic visitsAvera Dell Rapids Hospital (CAH) 135 Acute patient discharges 44 Swing-bed patient discharges 10,671 Outpatient visits 355 Swing-bed patient days 13,699 Clinic visitsAvera Flandreau Hospital (CAH) 145 Acute patient discharges 19 Swing-bed patient discharges 8,157 Outpatient visits 198 Swing-bed patient days 8,235 Clinic visitsAvera Hand County Hospital (CAH) 157 Acute patient discharges 37 Swing-bed patient discharges 10,410 Outpatient visits 242 Swing-bed patient days 7,656 Clinic visitsAvera Merrill Pioneer Hospital (CAH) 74 Acute patient discharges 40 Swing-bed patient discharges 8,884 Outpatient visits 372 Swing-bed patient days 5,737 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 $85,289,932.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.