Avera St Lukes
Acute Care Hospitals · Voluntary non-profit - Church
305 S State St Post Office Box 4450
Aberdeen, SD 57401
- Emergency services
- Medicare overall rating: 4 of 5 stars
At a glance
- Clinicians who list this hospital
- 304
- Physicians (MD and DO)
- 169
- Beds
- 50
- Medical groups
- 15+
Quality and patient experience
- Medicare overall rating (of 5)
- 4
- Patient survey rating (of 5)
- 4
- Patients who would definitely recommend it (national average 71%)
- 74%
Compared with the national rate
| Measures | Better | Same | Worse |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths after treatment | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Safety of care (infections, complications) | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Readmissions and return visits | 2 | 6 | 1 |
Number of Medicare quality measures where this hospital’s rate is statistically better than, the same as (no different from), or worse than the national rate.
What patients said
- Doctors communicated well 4 of 5 stars
- Nurses communicated well 4 of 5 stars
- Explained medicines 3 of 5 stars
- Discharge information 4 of 5 stars
- Clean 4 of 5 stars
- Quiet at night 3 of 5 stars
From 547 patient surveys (HCAHPS), period ending 09/30/2025.
Medicare “birthing-friendly” hospital: takes part in a maternity care quality program and follows recommended safety practices.
Source: CMS Care Compare (Hospital General Information; Patient survey HCAHPS). Ratings describe the hospital overall, not individual doctors.
Physicians by specialty
- Family Medicine 23
- Internal Medicine 22
- Anesthesiology 14
- Hospitalist 9
- Radiology 9
- Orthopedic Surgery 7
- Endocrinology & Diabetes 6
- General Surgery 6
- Pathology 5
- OB-GYN (Obstetrics & Gynecology) 5
- ENT (Otolaryngology) 5
- Infectious Disease 5
- Emergency Medicine 5
- Radiation Oncology 5
- Pulmonology 4
- Urology 4
- Gastroenterology 4
- Neurosurgery 3
- Interventional Cardiology 3
- Nephrology (Kidney) 3
- Psychiatry 2
- Neurology 2
- Hematology 2
- Cardiology 2
- Ophthalmology 2
- Rheumatology 2
- Hepatology 2
- Hematology & Oncology 2
- Dermatology 2
- Urogynecology 1
- Transplant Surgery 1
- Critical Care Medicine 1
- Allergy & Immunology 1
- Pain Medicine 1
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) 1
- Pediatrics 1
- Interventional Radiology 1
Other clinicians
Medical groups whose clinicians work here
- Avera St Lukes 134
- Avera Mckennan 77
- Sanford Health Network 31
- City of Redfield 10
- Marshall County Memorial Hospital 10
- Faulkton Area Medical Center 8
- Mobridge Regional Hospital 7
- Ashley Medical Center 5
- Conklin Clinics Prof LLC 5
- Eureka Community and Benevolent Hospital 5
- Bowdle Hospital 4
- St Michael's Hospital, Inc. 4
- City of Brookings 4
- Dakota Roots Health Care PLLC 3
- Physicians Laboratory LTD 3
Number of each group’s clinicians who list this hospital.
Sources: CMS Hospital General Information and Doctors and Clinicians Facility Affiliation (Care Compare), CMS certification number 430014. Counts are clinicians who list this hospital with Medicare; they include part-time and visiting clinicians and aren’t staff totals. Residents and beds are from the hospital’s Medicare cost report. Ratings are Medicare’s, not ours.