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Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center |
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1325 S Cliff Avenue |
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P.O. Box 5045 |
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Sioux Falls |
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South Dakota |
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USA |
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57117 5045 |
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605 322 8000 |
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Specialization Of Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center
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Obestetrician/Gynecologist |
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About Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center
** About Avera McKennan **
As a member of Avera Health, the region's largest and strongest health care network, our patients receive excellent care of the highest clinical quality, close to home.
Within our network are more than 300 care locations in 82 communities in five states, including hospitals, primary care clinics, specialty care clinics, long term care facilities, retirement communities, home medical equipment outlets and research centers.
** Mission **
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 guided by Christian values.
** Vision **
Working with its partners, Avera shall provide a quality, cost-effective health ministry, which reflects Gospel values. We shall improve the health care of the people we serve through a regionally integrated network of persons and institutions.
** Values **
In caring together for life, the Avera community is guided by the gospel values of compassion, hospitality and stewardship.
* Compassion: The compassion of Jesus, especially for the poor and the sick of
body and spirit, shapes the manner in which health care is delivered by
Avera's employees, physicians, administrators, volunteers and sponsors.
Compassionate caring is expressed through sensitive listening and responding,
understanding, support, patience and healing touch.
* Hospitality: The encounters of Jesus with each person were typified by
openness and mutuality. A welcoming presence, an attentiveness to needs, and
a gracious manner, seasoned with a sense of humor, are expressions of
hospitality in and by the Avera community.
* Stewardship: Threaded through the mission of Jesus was the restoration of all
the world to right relationship with its Creator. In that same spirit and
mission, the members of Avera treat persons, organizational power and earth's
resources with justice and responsibility. Respect, truth and integrity are
foundational to right relationships among those who serve, and those who are
served.
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History Of Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center
** Our History **
The ministry of the Benedictine Sisters has roots that run 15 centuries deep to Rome and the founders of the Benedictines, St. Benedict of Nursia and his twin sister St. Scholastica. The “Rule” St. Benedict wrote for monastic living continues to guide monastic life today. Benedictine Sisters first came to South Dakota from Maryville, Mo. at the invitation of Bishop Martin Marty, OSB to work in the new Dakota Territory and start a new foundation. They homesteaded in Zell, South Dakota, and then took over the bishop’s house and school in Yankton. Their rich health care tradition began in 1897 when Bishop Thomas O’Gorman asked them to convert their academy and orphanage into Sacred Heart Hospital in response to the need for a clean, quiet place for the sick and injured.
Called to Care for the Sick
The roots of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary are Irish and began with the zeal of an Irish woman, Nano Nagle, who redirected her life and wealth to the needs of the education of the poor and night-time ministry to the poverty-ridden elderly and sick in her hometown. In the late 19th century, three Presentation Sisters from Ireland responded to the call to come to Dakota Territory to educate the children of the Lakota Sioux and those of the European settlers, as well. As the territory grew, the new Dakota community of Presentation women did, too. Presentation College in Aberdeen became a leader in providing teachers and nurses to the rural area. At the turn of the century, the Sisters began caring for victims of diphtheria and typhoid epidemics in their homes and in their schools, opening St. Luke’s Hospital in Aberdeen in 1901.
As the Sisters heeded the Gospel call to care for the sick, their health care ministries grew. By treating every sick person as a child of God, they hoped to reveal God’s love to the world. Through a century of prudent and able administration, the Sisters met the challenges of an ever-changing health care system. In the early years, they borrowed to build hospitals for the people of the region and kept their ministries alive and flourishing during hard times. Mid-century, they met and often exceeded community expectations for quality care, specialized skills and technology. In the 1960s and 1970s they cooperated with government programs while assuring Gospel values, pastoral care and mission awareness would continue to be evident in their hospitals and nursing homes.
Presentation Health System
In 1978 the Presentation Sisters formed the Presentation Health System to combine the strengths of their individual institutions. In like manner, the Benedictine Sisters formed the Benedictine Health System of Yankton in 1987. The new organizations made it easier for the facilities to share the costs of expertise in areas of reimbursement coding, legal affairs, personnel management, employee benefit administration, bill collection and risk management. In a first step toward the eventual union of their health ministries, the Benedictine and Presentation Sisters formed the Benedictine-Presentation Health Alliance, and under its aegis began sponsoring an annual health care ethics conference.
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