South Dakota hospitals: racial-equity scorecards

58 Medicare-certified hospitals serve South Dakota, represented by the South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations. This page aggregates CMS Hospital Compare measures — overall star rating, mortality / safety / readmission / patient-experience measure-group performance — for each of those facilities.

Avera Health and Sanford Health operate the dominant inpatient share statewide, both anchored in Sioux Falls. South Dakota adopted Medicaid expansion in July 2023.

The state's recognized safety-net hospital systems — the facilities that carry a disproportionate share of Medicaid and uninsured admissions — include: Avera McKennan Hospital (Sioux Falls), and Sanford USD Medical Center (Sioux Falls). Each has its own detail page below.

Two editorial notes on scope. First, CMS does not publish a racial-disparity scorecard per-hospital at national scale; what we surface below is the facility's overall CMS rating paired with any race-stratified metric we could find in a primary source (AHRQ Disparities Atlas, a state discharge scorecard, or a published study). Second, we do not rank hospitals as 'worst for Black patients' without a primary-source citation — the legal standard for that claim requires it.