Pioneer Memorial Hospital & Health Services

Pioneer Memorial Hospital & Health Services operates a 12-bed critical access Hospital. The organization provides healthcare Services to viborg and surrounding rural communities. During the current year, the Hospital had 104 acute and swing bed admissions and 542 patient days, 831 visits to the emergency room and performed 42 surgeries/scope procedures. Acute and swing bed volumes at Pioneer Memorial Hospital remained consistent with the prior year. Outpatient volumes experienced a decrease in volumes of 14% with the decrease in testing for covid-19 and providing care to patients with covid-19.

Pioneer Memorial Hospital & Health Services operates three medicare-certified rural Health clinics located in centerville, parker and viborg, sd. In the rural Health clinics, there were 11,081 clinic visits. The three rural Health clinics administered 1,727 covid vaccinations in fiscal year 2022.

Pioneer Memorial Hospital & Health Services operates a 46-bed skilled nursing facility, a 20-unit senior housing facility, and a 10-unit assisted living facility. In the nursing home, there were 34 admissions and 14,264 resident days. There were 3,482 resident days in the senior housing facility, and 3,214 resident days in the assisted living facility. Going into the third year of the covid-19 pandemic (2020-2022), an increase in census was seen in fiscal year 2022 with the skilled nursing facility increasing days by 22% and the assisted living days increased slightly by 2%. A decline in census continued to be seen with the senior housing with days down by 29%.