Our Mission...

Our mission is to extend Avera McKennan's health care healing ministry through lasting relationships with our donors whose stewardship and compassion enable program innovation and development for our friends and neighbors whom we serve.

Our Values...

In caring together for life, the Avera Health community is guided by the gospel values of compassion, hospitality and stewardship.

Compassion
The compassion of Jesus, especially for the poor and the sick of body and spirit, shapes the manner in which health care is delivered by Avera's employees, physicians, administrators, volunteers and sponsors. Compassionate caring is expressed through sensitive listening and responding, understanding, support, patience, and healing touch.

Hospitality
The encounters of Jesus with each person were typified by openness and mutuality. A welcoming presence, an attentiveness to needs, and a gracious manner, seasoned with a sense of humor, are expressions of hospitality in and by the Avera Health community.

Stewardship
Threaded through the mission of Jesus was the restoration of all the world to right relationship with its Creator. In that same spirit and mission, the members of Avera Health treat persons, organizational power and earth's resources with justice and responsibility. Respect, truth and integrity are foundational to right relationships among those who serve, and those who are served.