Here are five things to know.
1. The Avera on Louise Health Campus will be the largest building project to be constructed in Sioux Falls, hospital officials said in a news release.
2. The campus will be built incrementally. The first phase will include a surgical hospital and a connected medical office building, according to Avera.
3. Hospital officials said orthopedics and sports medicine, gastroenterology, rheumatology and internal medicine will all be part of the campus, and the 24-bed surgical hospital will offer robotic surgery, among other services.
4. The campus is slated to open in early 2020.
5. “This is an unflinching example of the unified, strategic effort Avera is making to enhance health services in the region by providing greater and easier access to convenient, high-end health services like orthopedics and gastroenterology,” Dave Kapaska, DO, regional president and CEO of Sioux Falls-based Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center, said. “Healthcare of the future must be convenient and easily accessible, so Avera is revisioning what care we deliver where.”
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