1325 S Cliff Ave Post Office Box 5045, Sioux Falls, SD, 57117 · (605) 322-8000
Beds
563
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Patient survey: 4 of 5
Net patient revenue
$1.71B
FY 2025
Net income
$104.5M
Patient care margin -7.6%
Discharges
27,168
Occupancy 70.4%
Clinicians
1,293
From the hospital's yearly cost reports (fiscal years as the hospital reports them)
Locations are shown at the center of the ZIP code.
US dollars as reported. Patient care margin = net patient revenue minus operating expenses, before other income such as grants, donations and investments.
| Fiscal year | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Patient care margin | Net income | Discharges | Uncompensated care | Medicare days | Medicaid days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1.71B | $1.84B | -7.6% | $104.5M | 27,168 | $21.7M | 27.9% | 18.4% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for COPD patients | 8.1% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 12.2% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 12.4% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.3% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 14.8% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 10.9% | US median 11.6% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
Official US government data: hospital records, ownership records, yearly cost reports and quality measures, linked by the hospital's CCN and NPI. Financials are for fiscal years as reported by the hospital.
Medicare clinicians who work here
| 2024 | $1.53B | $1.61B | -5.2% | $139.6M | 26,319 | $26.1M | 28.6% | 18.0% |
| 2023 | $1.34B | $1.47B | -9.9% | $28.7M | 25,747 | $24.3M | 29.5% | 15.9% |
| 2022 | $1.24B | $1.41B | -13.4% | -$41.6M | 25,515 | $19.8M | 29.0% | 16.9% |
| 2021 | $1.33B | $1.46B | -9.8% | $131.5M | 25,565 | $20.0M | 31.4% | 15.7% |
| 2020 | $1.15B | $1.34B | -16.5% | -$4.9M | 24,178 | $21.9M | 32.9% | 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 21.1% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.2% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 6.2% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.5% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 4.9% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.03 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.32 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.78 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 0.37 | US median 0.72 · better |
| Surgical site infections after hysterectomy (ratio to expected) | 0.53 | US median 0.81 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.66 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.23 | US median 0.40 · better |
| Doctors always communicated well | 79% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 78% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 4 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 61% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 74% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 64% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 76% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 0% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 112 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 22% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 63% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 88% | US median 79% |
| Stroke patients who got a brain scan within 45 minutes of arrival | 71% | US median 74% |
| 177 |
| $51,481.20 |
| $8,682.32 |
| $10,022.34 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 130 | $63,243.11 | $11,191.78 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 127 | $50,123.06 | $8,817.39 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 189 PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE | 116 | $51,450.73 | $8,332.71 | $9,973.97 |
| DRG 064 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH MCC | 109 | $95,701.87 | $13,898.33 | $15,695.20 |
| DRG 378 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH CC | 102 | $33,275.82 | $6,475.06 | $7,294.77 |
| DRG 065 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH CC OR TPA IN 24 HOURS | 95 | $56,983.98 | $6,343.74 | $7,474.08 |
| DRG 481 HIP AND FEMUR PROCEDURES EXCEPT MAJOR JOINT WITH CC | 93 | $85,653.75 | $14,283.16 | $15,801.33 |
| DRG 853 INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC | 84 | $188,353.89 | $36,204.70 | $40,556.82 |
| DRG 330 MAJOR SMALL AND LARGE BOWEL PROCEDURES WITH CC | 79 | $84,687.63 | $15,836.48 | $18,026.21 |
| DRG 377 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH MCC | 73 | $73,685.11 | $12,313.85 | $14,301.50 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 73 | $32,540.42 | $5,074.79 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 640 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITH MCC | 70 | $49,659.00 | $8,647.87 | $10,642.23 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 729 | 688 | $1,185.50 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 644 | 550 | $1,411.31 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 586 | 561 | $10,580.21 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | 519 | 463 | $1,436.76 | $1,406.61 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 498 | 283 | $1,509.44 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 428 | 365 | $2,109.16 | $2,141.49 |
| APC 5372 Level 2 Urology and Related Services | 416 | 226 | $502.46 | $502.15 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 413 | 388 | $2,025.35 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 304 | 285 | $5,256.07 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 300 | 280 | $2,364.79 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 290 | 278 | $2,400.52 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | 256 | 199 | $2,603.85 | $2,629.24 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
| Company | Payments | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen Inc. AMGN | 4 | $1.0M |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. TAK | 35 | $510K |
| Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC MRK | 12 | $476K |
| Genentech, Inc. ROG.SW | 46 | $442K |
| AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP AZN | 11 | $381K |
| AstraZeneca UK Limited AZN | 2 | $214K |
| Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. REGN | 28 | $181K |
| Pfizer Inc. PFE | 25 | $141K |
| Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 23 | $139K |
| Abbvie Inc. ABBV | 10 | $83K |
Official US government data on Original Medicare hospital stays and outpatient services; groups with fewer than 11 cases are not published. Payments are those drug and device companies must report.
Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Sioux Falls, SD with 563 beds, part of Avera Health and a 4-star overall rating.
Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center in Sioux Falls, SD has 563 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 505 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 27,168 inpatients that year, with 70.4% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center reported net patient revenue of $1.71B and operating expenses of $1.84B, a margin on patient care of -7.6%. After other income and expenses its net income was $104.5M (5.4% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center is part of Avera Health, a health system with 36 hospitals based in Sioux Falls, SD. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center has an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 4 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 1 death rate measures are better and 0 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center provides emergency services.
1,293 Medicare clinicians list Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice, Physician Assistant.
In 2024, Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center had 5,621 Medicare inpatient stays in 158 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 424 stays; Medicare paid $13,685.22 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $4.1M in payments to Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center as a teaching hospital ($181K general and $4.0M for research) from 53 companies.