Brookings and Watertown hospital recognized in Becker’s Top 100 list
Recently, Becker’s Hospital Review, released their 2024 edition of its Top 100 Great Community Hospitals list. The community hospitals honored in this list are focused on bringing clinical and academic excellence, personalized and holistic care, and overall improved health to their communities. Community hospitals are essential to providing access and care to residents in South Dakota and we are pleased to share that two of South Dakota’s community hospitals were recognized on this list.
Brookings (S.D.) Health System. Brookings Health System is a nonprofit city-owned health system that offers a range of inpatient, outpatient, surgery, home health and extended care services to Brookings and around 20 surrounding communities. The health system consists of a 49-bed hospital, a 79-bed nursing home, living apartments for seniors, one medical center, two medical clinics and one eye clinic. Brooking Health System was named a Top 20 Rural Community Hospital by the National Rural Hospital Association for the seventh time in 2024. The Chartis Center for Rural Health awarded the health system with a Performance Leadership Award for the seventh straight year in 2023, in all three award categories: quality, outcome and patient perspective. Brookings has also been featured on Newsweek‘s list of World Best Hospitals for the past four years.
Prairie Lakes Healthcare System (Watertown, S.D.). Prairie Lakes Healthcare System is an 81-bed acute care hospital with over 800 team members who care for 90,000 people across ten counties in Northeast South Dakota and Western Minnesota. Prairie Lakes was one of 262 hospitals nationwide to receive the American College of cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award in 2023. The healthcare system was awarded Healthgrades’ Outstanding Patient Experience Award in 2022-23 and received a 5-star facility rating from the CMS in 2024.
(100 great community hospitals 2024 | beckershospitalreview.com)
Six South Dakota healthcare facilities recognized as top hospitals for patient experience.
Becker’s has compiled a list of the top hospitals for patient experience in each state using Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems data from CMS. 273 hospitals were selected with six of South Dakota’s hospitals included.
CMS shares 10 Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) star ratings based on publicly reported HCAHPS measures. Every hospital on this list received a five-star summary rating, which is the average of the star ratings of the 10 topic-specific HCAHPS measures, including nurse and physician communication, care transitions, and cleanliness. Learn more about the methodology here.
The star rating is based on survey data collected from hospital patients from October 2022 through September 2023. The figures are from CMS’ Provider Data Catalog and were released July 31.
- South Dakota
- Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota (Sioux Falls)
- Black Hills Surgical Hospital LLP (Rapid City)
- Dunes Surgical Hospital (Dakota Dunes)
- Sioux Falls Specialty Hospital
- Sioux Falls VA Medical Center
- VA Black Hills Healthcare System (Fort Meade)
(273 top hospitals for patient experience | beckershospitalreview.com)
