AVERA MCKENNAN
1325 South Cliff Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 571175045 www.averamckennan.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Avera is a health ministry rooted in the Gospel. Our mission is to make a positive impact in the lives and health of persons and communities by providing quality services and guided by Christian values.

Promotion of Health

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 511-bed hospital, a 53-bed heart hospital and a 138-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, liver, and pancreas) and bone marrow transplant.(Continued on Schedule O)Avera McKennan owns or leases rural critical hospitals and a nursing home in South Dakota including a 25-bed critical access hospital and a 55-bed nursing home in Gregory, SD, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Milbank, SD, a 21-bed critical access hospital in Dell Rapids, SD, an 18-bed critical access hospital in Flandreau, SD and a 25-bed critical access hospital in Miller (Hand County), SD, and a 14-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, in 98 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, infection 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 Hospital23,682 Acute patient discharges344,425 Outpatient visits1,845 Newborn patient discharges3,658 Newborn patient days1,029,400 Clinic visitsAvera Heart Hospital2,246 Acute patient discharges9,332 Outpatient visits60,143 Clinic visitsAvera Prince of Peace45,899 Long-term care resident days405 Long-term care patient dischargesAvera Gregory Hospital (CAH)420 Acute patient discharges13,930 Outpatient visits162 Swing-bed patient discharges1,084 Swing-bed patient days18,429 Clinic visitsAvera Rosebud Country Care Center13,099 Long-term care resident days36 Long-term care patient dischargesAvera Milbank Hospital (CAH)401 Acute patient discharges90 Swing-bed patient discharges26,689 Outpatient visits95 Newborn patient days383 Swing-bed patient days24,812 Clinic visitsAvera Dell Rapids Hospital (CAH)117 Acute patient discharges41 Swing bed patient discharges9,728 Outpatient visits413 Swing-bed patient days13,854 Clinic visitsAvera Flandreau Hospital (CAH)125 Acute patient discharges15 Swing-bed patient discharges16,643 Outpatient visits144 Swing-bed patient days10,047 Clinic visitsAvera Hand County Hospital (CAH)209 Acute patient discharges50 Swing-bed patient discharges11,801 Outpatient visits440 Swing-bed patient days8,663 Clinic visitsAvera Merrill Pioneer Hospital(CAH)(May 1, 2019 - June 30, 2019)8 Acute patient discharges1,101 Outpatient visits6 Swing-bed patient days676 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 $66,646,224.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.

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