South Dakota Urban Indian Health is getting a five-year, $11 million operating contract from Indian Health Service to operate ...

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Although mergers have happened throughout the past 20 years in South Dakota, it hasn’t resulted in hospital closures, said ...

Sisseton, S.D.-based Coteau des Prairies Health Care System implemented a telehealth program to improve patient outcomes in its emergency department, according to a March 13 post on athenaInsight.

Avera hospitals across the state are participating in Mission: Lifeline Stroke, a statewide initiative from the American ...

PIERRE | South Dakota hospital executives say expanding the Medicaid program to provide health insurance to thousands of additional low-income people would reduce the amount of people unable to pay ...

When the warning sounded shortly before midnight that a tornado could be approaching, the clock turned into a stopwatch for staff members working the night shift at a behavioral health center at a ...

A federal inspection determined patients’ rights were violated at the South Dakota Human Services Center in Yankton — a state-run mental health hospital — when workers misused restraints to control ...