Avera and Avera McKennan has been named as one of IMB Watson Health Top 15 Health Systems in the nation.
The IBM Watson Health study used performance indicators such as: lower inpatient mortality rates and fewer patient complications, lower 30-day readmission rates, faster emergency care and higher patient ratings of their overall hospital experience.
Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center in Sioux Falls was also named as one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals by IBM Watson Health.
“This award recognizes the consistent and innovative care Avera provides - no matter which of our clinics you walk into. It’s an award that belongs to our front-line caregivers, and it’s well-deserved especially in the light of the past year of the pandemic,” Bob Sutton, President and CEO of Avera Health said in a press release.
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Group protests police brutality through downtown Sioux Falls
A group of people met at a park in downtown Sioux Falls on Sunday to protest police brutality.
Abigail Turner, a student at Roosevelt High School, said she’s seen an increase in police brutality and deaths recently and wanted her message to be heard. She started with a protest at her high school on Friday and on Sunday organized another one in downtown Sioux Falls.
The protest was organized by word of mouth and on the social media app Snapchat. According to the flyer shared on social media, the Justice For Daunte Wright rally was to be shared privately. The protest was against “state violence” and in support of all victims of police brutality.
One man died early Monday morning in a one-vehicle crash west of Leola, according to the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.
The single vehicle crash happened around 3 a.m. Monday on Highway 10, mile marker 245, according to Tony Mangan, spokesperson for the South Dakota Highway Patrol.
A 2010 Kenworth T600 semi-truck and trailer was eastbound on Highway 10 when the vehicle went off the roadway and rolled, Mangan said.
The 38-year-old driver later died as a result of his injuries at an Aberdeen hospital. He was wearing a seat belt, according to Mangan.
The name of the one person involved is not being released pending notification of family members, Mangan said.
It took 13 days for COVID-19 cases to climb from one to 80 at the Smithfield Foods meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls.
Two days later, those cases reached 190. A week later, the number of infections broke 900. Two more days, they surpassed 1,000.
The public only saw cases climb for half that time, since the company and city kept the case numbers under wraps for the first two weeks.
Workers died, people protested and the national media swarmed.
Then the plant shut down. This was all in the span of just a few weeks.
A year later, it seems impossible that the meatpacking plant became the epicenter of an outbreak of more than 1,000 workers and national attention in such a short amount of time.
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