Avera Missouri River Health Center

606 East Garfield, Gettysburg, SD 57442 · (605) 765-2488

Rural (critical access) hospitalVoluntary non-profit - PrivateEmergency room

Avera Missouri River Health Center is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Gettysburg, South Dakota (Potter County), with 7 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $1.49 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical South Dakota hospital ($4.09).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating

$1.49listed for every $1 its care costs South Dakota typical $4.09

1 h 52 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min

7beds

Quality and patient experience

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better

Pneumonia

16.5%

Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better

Pneumonia

17.7%

US typical hospital. Infection figures are a ratio: 1.00 means as many infections as expected for a hospital like this one. CMS adjusts these rates for how sick the patients are; a small gap from the typical hospital can be chance, so a verdict is shown only where CMS gives one.

Source: CMS Care Compare, measurement periods ending up to September 2025.

The money

$67what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed

$4.2Mnet income, all sources

2.4%margin on patient care alone

$56,566cost of charity care (0.4% of costs)

$182,458unpaid bills written off (bad debt)

51full-time staff (equivalent)

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending June 2025. Non-profit hospitals must have a financial assistance (charity care) policy; ask for it if a bill is hard to pay.

Cash and insurer prices for this hospital haven't been added yet. The hospital publishes them on its own price page.

This hospital has no Medicare stay data for 2024. Medicare data covers mostly patients 65 and older, so psychiatric, children's and very small hospitals often don't appear.

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