About Avera Health

Avera Health delivers top-quality, compassionate care through a connected system of locations and expert providers, all focused on you and your family. We’re available 24/7 to answer your questions or help you find the right services.

Find a Location

No matter where you enter our doors, we work together to offer you the latest medical expertise and technology close to home. As a leading nonprofit health system in the Upper Midwest, Avera serves South Dakota and surrounding areas of Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota. Our footprint reaches across 72,000 square miles and a population of 1 million.

Regional centers based in Aberdeen, Mitchell, Pierre, Sioux Falls and Yankton, SD, and Marshall, MN
Tertiary medical center: Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center in Sioux Falls, SD
36 community and critical access hospitals
Primary and specialty care clinics
Senior living facilities – long-term care, assisted living and independent living
Home care and hospice
Sports and fitness
Pharmacies
Home medical equipment

Care Close to Home

With over 60 medical specialties, Avera offers a full continuum of health services with nationally recognized quality. Find the care you need:

View all health services

Built for Rural Health

Avera is moving health forward with our commitment to deepen our roots in rural areas. Learn More

Driven by Our Mission

As the health ministry of the Benedictine Sisters of Yankton, SD, and the Presentation Sisters of Aberdeen, SD, we carry on our sponsors’ legacy and century-long commitment to providing faith-based health care.

Mission is central to all we do at Avera. 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 guided by Christian values.

Avera employees and caregivers live out the mission and values of Hospitality, Compassion and Stewardship, each and every day, in every patient encounter.

Our Ministry

Woman wearing gold sweater comforting woman wearing green shirt.

Daily Scripture and Reflection

Each day, an Avera colleague or friend of Avera writes a reflection based on Scripture. You can sign up to receive these by email.

Community Health Needs Assessments

We continually support our communities by reinvesting staff time, efforts and resources into improving community health.

Annual Report

Avera’s online annual report shares highlights and achievements from the past year.

Health Equity

Avera has developed programs and initiatives to promote diversity, equity and inclusion that result in human flourishing among all persons.

American Indian Health

The Avera American Indian Health Initiative aims to foster greater understanding and awareness among those we serve.

Avera Foundation

Make a gift and join Avera’s healing ministry. By donating, you support lifesaving services for patients and their families.

Quality Initiatives and Reporting

Avera encourages the development of systems that support delivery of excellent care to each and every patient.

Avera's Heritage

Avera has a rich heritage of faith and service. In the 1880s, courageous Sisters arrived to the Dakotas on a mission of education. They soon expanded their ministry to include health care in the face of diphtheria and influenza epidemics.

The Benedictine and Presentation Sisters brought their health ministries together in 2000 under the name Avera — a name derived from a Latin word meaning “to be well.”

We’re focused on helping you feel better and live healthier so you can experience all the good gifts that life has to offer. Caring for the whole person — body, mind and spirit — is central to the Avera mission.

Avera Leadership

In collaboration with our sponsors, Avera leaders and governing board members take responsibility for major decisions affecting Avera’s health care ministry.

Community Partnership Requests

Avera lives out our mission in partnership with community organizations with goals and values that align with our mission to make a difference in the lives of others. As good stewards of our resources, we have an annual request process for those seeking sponsorships.

Balance Health Tips

Keep up-to-date on the latest health news and tasty recipes by joining our wellness newsletter. Subscribe Now

You Belong at Avera

Work or volunteer at Avera where you can make a difference in the lives of others and contribute toward the greater good in your community.

Search Jobs Volunteer

Quick Access Links