VA Black Hills Healthcare System

113 Comanche Road, Fort Meade, SD 57741 · (605) 347-2511

VA hospitalVeterans Health AdministrationEmergency room

VA Black Hills Healthcare System is a Veterans Affairs hospital in Fort Meade, South Dakota (Meade County). It has an emergency room and holds 5 of 5 stars in CMS's overall quality rating. In CMS's patient survey it scores 5 of 5 stars, and 79% of patients said they would definitely recommend it.

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★★★★★CMS overall quality rating

★★★★★patients' own rating (203 surveys)

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

★★★★★5 of 5 · 203 surveys

79%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%

81%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

Nurses communicated well★★★★★
Doctors communicated well★★★★★
Staff explained medicines★★★★★
Information for going home★★★★★
Room was clean★★★★★
Quiet at night★★★★★

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better

Heart failure

9.7%

Pneumonia

12.1%

COPD

7.5%

Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better

Heart failure

22.2%

Pneumonia

17.8%

Infections and complications lower is better

Serious complications (CMS safety index)

0.96

≈ Same as US

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.

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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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