Platte Health Center-Avera

The purpose of the Platte Community Memorial Hospital, Inc. is to provide healthcare services to the Community of Platte and the surrounding areas. The facility consists of a 17-bed critical access Hospital, a 48-bed long-term care facility, and three rural Health clinics in Platte, geddes, and white lake, south dakota. Services offered include primary care, emergency, same-day surgery, cardiac rehab, pharmacy, laboratory, imaging, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, telemedicine, and numerous specialties via outreach providers. Inpatient and outpatient statistical data for the year were as follows: 404 inpatient days; 467 swing bed days; 10,785 long-term care days; 8,497 outpatient visits; and 10,837 clinic visits.to fulfill its mission of Community service, the Platte Health center provides charity care to persons who have healthcare needs and are uninsured, underinsured, ineligible for a government program, or otherwise unable to pay for medically necessary care. Consistent with its mission to make a positive impact in the lives and Health of persons and communities by providing quality services guided by christian values, phc strives to ensure that the financial capacity of people who need Health services does not prevent them from seeking or receiving care.phc attested to the program year 2022 of meaningful use. This attestation to cms states phc has met and will comply with the requirements for meaningful use. With this, phc has enhanced patient care by implementing an electronic Health record system as well as the many patient safety measures that comes with it.