Avera McKennan is a member of Avera Health, a regional family of more than 230 healthcare facilities in the five-state region of South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota. With 12,000 physicians and employees. Avera Health has 1.8 million clinic and inpatient visits per year at facilities known for medical excellence, technological innovation, and a commitment to meeting the spiritual, emotional, and physical needs of all patients.
Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center, located in Sioux Falls, South dakota is a 506-bed, non-profit, Catholic facility and the regional referral center for the Avera Health System and surrounding five-state area. Our Careflight helicpoter and fixed wing aircraft transport patients from a service area with a population of 800,000 to our Level II Trauma Center. With over 600 physicians on staff in all specialties and 4,900 employees, the hospital offers a full range of services including the region's only transplant program for kidney, pancreas and bone marrow transplantaion. Avera McKennan has been twice named a Magnet hospital and Distinguished Clinical Hospital by Healthgrades.
About Our CommunitySioux Falls is South Dakota's largest city and serves as a healthcare, governmental, law enforcement and financial hub for the area. With a population of 200,000, the city has been judged by Money Magazine as the "best place to live in America" for its quality of life, including its low crime rate, high-quality education, clean air and water, lack of traffic congestion and friendly residents.
Sioux Falls offers a diverse blend of manufactoring; banking and financial industries, medical services, transportation, communications and wholesale/retail trade for service and buisness opportunities. South Dakota is an attractive venue for buisness to expand beacuse there is no corporate income tax, no state income tax and no buisness inventory tax.
The city is a great place to raise a family. The public and private school system offers an array of educational opportunities. The post-secondary opportunities include five colleges, nearby state universities and a number of buisness and vocational schools. Sioux Falls offers 70 parks and 20 miles of paved bike trails that circle the city.
Living in the upper Midwest offers a great quality of life and an excellent place to be successful in your specialty.
With jobs available in
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PO Box 5045
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
Phone: 605-331-0913
Fax: 605-331-4359
URL: www.averamckennan.org
