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July 18, 2008 Avera Bulletin - July 2008 Ten at Ten: Avera Earns 10th “100 Most Wired” Fifth “Most Wireless”; Avera Health Plans to Provide Student Health Insurance for South Dakota University System; Avera McKennan Top 100 Community Value Provider; School-Based Health Care to Debut at Sioux Falls High School; Cardinal Health Awards Avera McKennan $35,000 to Fund Patient Safety Initiative

July 15, 2008 Avera De Smet Memorial Hospital Joins Avera The Family Thomas P. Rasmusson, President and CEO, Avera Queen of Peace Health Services, announces that effective July 1, 2008, De Smet Memorial Hospital has joined the Avera family network of hospitals, clinics, and other facilities, and to reflect the new relationship, the hospital’s name will become Avera De Smet Memorial Hospital.

July 15, 2008 Avera Health Named 2008 Most Wired and Most Wireless For the tenth consecutive year, Avera Health has been named to the nation’s MOST WIRED and for the fifth year MOST WIRELESS, according to the results of the 2008 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study released today in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine. Avera Health is the only organization in the nation to be named to both lists since their inception.

July 11, 2008 Open House Slated For New Traumatic Brain Injury Unit In Irene Sunrise Villa, South Dakota’s first long-term care facility specifically designed for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients, will host an open house from 1-3 p.m. and 4:30-6:30 p.m. Monday, July 14. The facility, located adjacent to Sunrise Manor/Avera in Irene, will begin serving patients in the middle of August.

June 24, 2008 Avera Bulletin - June 2008

June 16, 2008 Avera Funding for Community Health Passes $4.5 Million These are just some of the 32 projects that will receive 2008 grants from the Avera Community Service Fund. Sr. Mildred Busch, chair of the Avera Health Board of Directors and System Member, announced the grants today. Awards total $295,900 this year.

May 15, 2008 Avera Bulletin - May 2008 Haitian Health Foundation Director Recognized; Avera St. Luke’s Home Health and Avera Sacred Heart Home Care Win Awards for Excellence; Avera St. Luke’s Cancer Program Honored; Avera McKennan Recognized for Art Advocacy; South Dakota Department of Social Services Receives Funding for Three Avera Projects; Avera McKennan Plans New Cancer Institute; Avera Health Plans Hosts Open House; Avera System-Wide Marketing Initiatives Receive Prestigious National Healthcare Advertising Awards; Avera McKennan Looking for Big Losers

April 22, 2008 Avera Bulletin - April 2008

March 20, 2008 Director of Materials Management Named at Avera Queen of Peace Thomas P. Rasmusson, President and CEO, Avera Queen of Peace Health Services, is pleased to announce that Jeff Larson has accepted the position of Director of Materials Management.

March 17, 2008 Avera Bulletin - March 2008 Call for Entries forAvera Quality Recognition Program; Around the Avera World Invites Physicians and Families to Learn and Celebrate; National Health Care Decisions Day Planned; Avera McKennan Hospital Again Named One of the Nation's 100 Top Hospitals by Thomson Healthcare; Get Ready for Cover the Uninsured Week 2008, April 27-May 3; Avera Spring Conferences Around the Corner; Avera McKennan in Local Challengeof Oprah’s Big Give; Avera Living Well Center

Avera Marketing & Public Relations

Daryl Thuringer
Director of Marketing & Public Relations
605-322-4733

Clare Willrodt
Marketing and Public Relations Associate
605-322-4756

Avera Health Central Office
3900 West Avera Drive
Sioux Falls, SD 57108

All of Us

The Summer 2008 version is now available on-line. Feature stories include:

  • Most Wireless
  • Community Service Fund Awards
  • School-Based Health Care
  • Avera Haiti Project

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