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Avera St Benedict Health Center - Cah

401 West Glynn Drive, Parkston, SD 57366 · (605) 928-3311

Rural (critical access) hospitalVoluntary non-profit - PrivateNo emergency room

Avera St Benedict Health Center - Cah is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Parkston, South Dakota (Hutchinson County), with 25 beds. It has no emergency room and holds 5 of 5 stars in CMS's overall quality rating. It lists $2.76 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical South Dakota hospital ($4.09).

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★★★★★CMS overall quality rating
$2.76listed for every $1 its care costs South Dakota typical $4.09
1 h 49 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
25beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

89%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
87%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

    Emergency room and urgent care

    1 h 49 mintypical time in the ER before going home US typical 2 h 28 min
    Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better
    Pneumonia
    16.8%
    Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
    Heart failure
    20.4%
    Pneumonia
    17.4%

    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

    $36what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
    $15.4Mnet income, all sources
    13.7%margin on patient care alone
    $66,206cost of charity care (0.3% of costs)
    $334,951unpaid bills written off (bad debt)
    96full-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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