Company Profile
Monument Health
Company Overview
Headquartered in Rapid City, S.D., Monument Health is a community-based health care system with a mission to make a difference, every day. Monument Health offers care in 33 medical specialties and serves 20 communities across western South Dakota and in eastern Wyoming. With over 4,500 physicians and caregivers, Monument Health is comprised of 5 hospitals, 8 specialty and surgical centers and more than 40 medical clinics and health care service centers.
Monument Health is committed to the future of medicine, with medical training partnerships, a medical residency program and more than 130 active research studies. We are confident about western South Dakota’s future, and we’re honored to be your partner in delivering excellence in health care.
Company History
Monument Health traces its history back to 1878, when Sisters of the Holy Cross opened a hospital in gold rush mining camp of Deadwood. Other communities, including Sturgis, Custer, Spearfish and Rapid City, built hospitals of their own in subsequent years.
Rapid City had two hospitals, St. John’s McNamara and Bennett-Clarkson. However, by the 1970s high costs and new medical technology prompted local officials to look at merging the hospitals into a single system. In December 1979, the combined Rapid City Regional Hospital opened. In later years, health care providers in Custer, Lead-Deadwood, Sturgis, Spearfish and other communities joined the Monument Health network.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Rapid City Hospital and Monument Health Home+ Home Care maintained The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™, a three-year accreditation, by demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission’s national standards for health care quality and safety.
The ACTION Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award recognized Monument Health’s teamwork and commitment to delivering the highest quality in cardiovascular care. Monument Health was one of only 203 hospitals in the nation to receive this honor.
The association’s Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award recognized the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment based on nationally recognized, research-based guidelines.
The LifeSource Hospital Impact Award, awarded during the annual Donate Life Day celebration in Minneapolis, honored Monument Health for a remarkable record of organ and tissue donations in 2017.
Monument Health’s Heart and Vascular Institute is one of just two South Dakota health care providers to be named a Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care by Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Blue Distinction Centers are nationally designated hospitals that show expertise in delivering improved patient safety and better health outcomes.
Same Day Surgery Center in Rapid City, owned by physicians in partnership with Monument Health, won the 5-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for its commitment to enhancing patient experience.
Monument Health Home+ Home Health in Spearfish won the Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) Best Superior Performer award for achieving an overall patient satisfaction score that ranked in the top 20th percentile of all SHP clients.
COLA Laboratory Accreditation shows that the Monument Health laboratory in Belle Fourche applied rigid standards in day-to-day operations, demonstrated accuracy in testing and passed a rigorous on-site laboratory survey.
Buildings such as Monument Health Rapid City Hospital, which earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR certification, use 35 percent less energy and generate 35 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than similar buildings across the nation.
Monument Health Urgent Care North and Monument Health Urgent Care West, both in Rapid City, were the first urgent care centers in South Dakota to earn the Accredited Urgent Care designation from the Urgent Care Association of America.
Monument Health’s Spearfish Hospital and Sturgis Hospital were rated four-star hospitals by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS combines more than 50 measures into a single rating, which is listed on the CMS Hospital Compare website.
Spearfish Hospital was among the top 100 rural hospitals in America for 2017. Spearfish Regional Hospital was a top performer among rural hospitals in the areas of achieving higher quality, securing better outcomes and increasing patient satisfaction.
Monument Health Heart and Vascular Institute has earned a distinguished three-star rating from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) for its patient care and outcomes in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) procedures.
Monument Health Rapid City Hospital has been recognized as one of the top three hospitals in South Dakota for 2016-17 by U.S. News & World Report. South Dakota has more than 60 hospitals, with only three meeting U.S. News high standards and ranked.
Monument Health Rapid City Hospital received the Mission Lifeline Silver Award from the American Heart Association (AHA).
Monument Health Rapid City Hospital received the Acute Myocardial Infarction Platinum Performance Achievement Award from the American Heart Association (AHA).