Avera McKennan Building Projects

Two levels of the addition will be dedicated to women’s services including:

• Labor and delivery
• Dedicated triage unit
• Low-risk birthing suites
• Postpartum family unit with newborn nursery

Across our system, Avera has invested strongly across multiple levels of women’s health care including:

• Family practice and family practice with OB
• OB/GYN
• Midwifery
• Maternal fetal medicine
• Genetic counseling and testing
• Lactation consultants
• Internal medicine for women
• Integrative medicine
• Urogynecology
• Avera Breast Center

Next to our current pediatrics hospital area, two levels of the Avera McKennan addition will expand services dedicated to children:

• Inpatient rooms: We will grow hospital rooms for kids and ensure the space encourages children to be children, with plenty of play room and child-friendly amenities.
• Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) expansion
• Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU): The new space will connect to the current state-of-the-art NICU completed in 2015. This will allow us to grow the NICU size as the city grows, with shell space to meet projected needs in coming decades, while respecting previous investment and philanthropic giving to the NICU.

We have been steadily growing our pediatrics program over the last two decades. Avera has 11 general pediatricians in Sioux Falls and 25 throughout the system, as well as a large group of pediatric subspecialists.

• One level in the tower will allow for future surgical expansion, adjacent to Avera McKennan’s current inpatient surgery center.
• Areas vacated in the main hospital will be converted to much-needed medical/surgical space.
• One third of the Avera McKennan tower is designated as shell space for future growth, taking us several decades into the future.
• The tower will be built just east of the main hospital, connecting to existing levels of the main hospital. The project will require relocation of services housed in Plaza 3 with eventual removal of that building.

• Ground floor of the building will be dedicated to gastroenterology procedures, with more procedure rooms and more patient rooms for pre- and post-procedure care. This growth allows us to double our capacity for procedures.
• Second floor will house space for the digestive health clinic with room for growth of additional more providers.
• There’s room for future growth including a third floor shell space and a design that enables adding more floors if needed.
• So far, Sioux Falls’ gastroenterology practice has grown to six physicians and seven advanced practice providers.

• Space in the Avera Specialty Hospital vacated by gastroenterology enables orthopedic growth including clinic and imaging space. We’ll also double the number of operating rooms that are configured for orthopedic surgeries.
• Avera has built the region’s largest team of orthopedic providers with 52 specialty physicians at eight clinic locations and 40 outreach locations.