The new seven-bed Avera Missouri River Critical Access Hospital and clinic campus replaces the former Gettysburg Hospital. The medical center features a compact and highly functional layout, achieving efficient flow within a tight square-footage and optimizing the services offered for this rural community. Innovative design and technology promote flexibility in vital aspects of the care delivery system.

The overarching design aesthetic evokes the horizontal prairie landscape and the exterior brick patterning is intended to emulate a bird’s eye view of the many plowed farm fields so common to this area of the country. Patient care and the emergency department are both fully integrated with Avera’s robust telemedicine program, giving patients access to medical professionals with highly specialized expertise from the comfort and convenience of their community hospital.

Two of the private patient rooms can be converted to semi-private rooms, providing the ability to accommodate more patients as needed. The physical therapy gym is planned to offer public access to fitness equipment in the future.