How South Dakota Hospitals Rank Among America's Best

In South Dakota, we are fortunate to have access to top-notch healthcare at a level typically reserved for larger places.

Now there's a new list out that shows which facilities in the Mount Rushmore State are among the best in the nation.

Making the List

Forbes has published its first-ever list of the Top Hospitals in America. Beginning with approximately 5,400 general acute care hospitals, they ranked hospitals in four key areas, using data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services:

Patient Outcomes
Hospital Best Practices
Value
Patient Experience

Once the numbers were examined, 253 hospitals nationwide received an overall rating of five stars, and 509 hospitals received an overall rating of four stars. Five of those are South Dakota facilities:

South Dakota Five-Star Hospitals

South Dakota Four-Star Hospitals

Avera St. Luke's Hospital - Aberdeen
Monument Health Hospital - Rapid City

And while neither Avera nor Sanford's main Sioux Falls hospitals earned a four or five-star rating, six of their facilities in Nebraska, North Dakota, and Minnesota did: