Avera Weskota Memorial Medical Center - Cah

604 1st St NE, Wessington Springs, SD 57382 · (605) 539-1201

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

Avera Weskota Memorial Medical Center - Cah is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Wessington Springs, South Dakota (Jerauld County), with 16 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $2.29 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical South Dakota hospital ($4.09).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating

$2.29listed for every $1 its care costs South Dakota typical $4.09

2 h 6 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min

16beds

Quality and patient experience

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

The money

$44what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed

$984,292net income, all sources

16.4%margin on patient care alone

$44,038cost of charity care (0.9% of costs)

$46,741unpaid bills written off (bad debt)

22full-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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