Avera facilities earn 2025 Performance Leadership Awards

A number of Avera’s rural and community hospitals have earned a 2025 Performance Leadership Award for excellence.

The Performance Leadership Awards are based on the results of a comprehensive and objective framework for assessing how rural hospitals are performing– the Chartis Rural Hospital Performance INDEX®. INDEX benchmarks are used to measure performance across multiple areas impacting hospital operations and finance.

Avera hospitals in central South Dakota receiving awards are Avera Gregory Hospital, Avera Hand County Memorial Hospital in Miller, Avera St. Mary’s Hospital in Pierre and Platte Health Center Avera.

Avera hospitals receiving awards include:

• Avera Gregory Hospital, Gregory, S.D. – Patient Perspective
• Avera Hand County Memorial Hospital, Miller, S.D. – Quality, Outcomes and Patient Perspective
• Avera St. Mary’s Hospital, Pierre, S.D. – Outcomes
• Platte Health Center Avera, Platte, S.D. – Patient Perspective
• Avera Creighton Hospital, Creighton, Neb. – Quality
• Avera De Smet Memorial Hospital, De Smet, S.D. – Quality
• Avera Dells Area Hospital, Dell Rapids, S.D. – Quality and Patient Perspective
• Avera Granite Falls Health Center, Granite Falls, Minn. – Quality
• Avera Holy Family Hospital, Estherville, Iowa – Quality and Patient Perspective
• Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center, Marshall, Minn. – Quality and Outcomes
• Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital, Rock Rapids, Iowa – Quality
• Avera St. Anthony’s Hospital, O’Neill, Neb. – Quality
• Avera St. Benedict Hospital, Parkston, S.D. – Quality, Outcomes and Patient Perspective
• Avera St. Luke’s Hospital, Aberdeen, S.D. – Outcomes
• Avera Tyler Hospital, Tyler, Minn. – Quality
• Community Memorial Hospital Avera, Redfield, S.D. – Quality and Patient Perspective
• Floyd Valley Hospital, Le Mars, Iowa – Outcomes
• Freeman Regional Health Services, Freeman, S.D. – Patient Perspective
• Hegg Health Center, Rock Valley, Iowa – Quality and Patient Perspective
• Landmann-Jungman Memorial Hospital Avera, Scotland, S.D. – Quality
• Marshall County Healthcare Center Avera, Britton, S.D. – Quality and Patient Perspective
• Pipestone County Medical Center, Pipestone, Minn. – Patient Perspective
• Regional Health Services of Howard County, Cresco, Iowa – Quality
• St. Michael’s Hospital Avera, Tyndall, S.D. – Quality
• Sioux Center Health, Sioux Center, Iowa – Quality
• Wagner Community Memorial Hospital Avera, Wagner, S.D. – Quality