Avera Sacred Heart Hospital
More than a century has passed since the light of Avera Sacred Heart Hospital began to shine on Yankton when the Benedictine Sisters began to provide care and compassion to the sick - first opening their doors in 1897. Today our light casts a healing glow over 120,000 residents in southeastern South Dakota and northeastern Nebraska and now illuminates a state-of-the-art center of care, ever expanding to meet the changing needs of this region. And yet...it is still the same simple light of healing that has always guided our mission ... to reach out to those who are hurting.
Recent News and Visiting Hours Articles
March 16, 2010
Recommit Yourself to Wellness
Approximately 100 million Americans made a New Year’s Resolution this past January, and if you are like the majority of these reported goal makers, your top resolution was to lose weight and get in shape. Statistically however, more than 80% of these resolutions will go unresolved this year. But it’s not too late to change the numbers.
March 9, 2010
National Patient Safety Awareness Week
National Patient Safety Awareness Week is being celebrated March 7-13. This is a national education and awareness-building campaign for improving patient safety at the local level.
March 2, 2010
Patient Care and Safety - Medication Use
Medications are perhaps the most commonly used intervention in health, providing palliative, symptomatic and curative treatment of diseases and conditions. The opportunity for error in the use and administration process is significant.
