Avera Sacred Heart Hospital

Avera Sacred Heart's mission is to provide healthcare services to Yankton, South Dakota residents and residents of the surrounding area. Avera Sacred Heart is a 501(c)(3) organization affiliated with Avera Health. Avera Sacred Heart consists of a 99-bed hospital and a 187-bed nursing home, congregate housing facility and a hospice house in Yankton, SD, a 23-bed critical access hospital and a 47-bed nursing home in Creighton, NE, and 15 physician clinics. The physician clinics include primary care, ob/gyn, pediatrics, orthopedics, general surgery, internal medicine, radiation, radiology, oncology, podiatry, therapy, dialysis, behavioral health, and palliative care. Following is a breakdown of these statistics by facility:Avera Sacred Heart Hospital 2,868 Acute inpatient discharges 486 Newborn patient discharges 71 Swing bed patient discharges 90,308 Outpatient visits 394 Swing-bed patient days 1,116 Newborn patient days 37,584 Clinic visitsAvera Sacred Heart Majestic Bluffs 273 Long term care patient discharges 63,224 Long-term care resident daysAvera Creighton Hospital (CAH) 79 Acute inpatient discharges 52 Swing bed patient discharges 7,814 Outpatient visits 594 Swing-bed patient days 19,604 Clinic visitsAvera Creighton Care Centre 34 Long term care patient discharges 12,755 Long-term care resident daysAvera Sacred Heart 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 $2,444,310.Avera Sacred Heart 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 Sacred Heart 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 Sacred Heart 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.