South Dakota Awards $1 Million In Health Care Preparedness Grants

PIERRE, S.D. – Gov. Mike Rounds announced today that the state has approved $1,020,500 in grants to help hospitals and clinics with disaster preparedness efforts.

Since 2004, the state has awarded hospitals and rural health clinics more than $5.7 million dollars for such preparedness efforts as isolation and decontamination equipment, pharmaceutical stockpiles, and exercises and drills. All hospitals are eligible for the funding as well as 27 rural health clinics and community health centers that are either geographically distant from a hospital or serve a distinct population. This year for the first time, the state will also be awarding funds to long term care and home health care agencies.

“The response to any disaster always begins at the local level. Making these grants to health care providers across the state helps local areas better prepare for disaster response, which makes the state better prepared as well,” said Gov. Rounds. “We’re pleased to work with local health care providers on this effort.”

The funding comes to the state Department of Health from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response. The grant dollars are intended to increase the capacity of health care facilities to respond to any disaster with mass casualties. This year’s grants will support ongoing regional health care planning for disaster response, development of mass fatality management plans and hospital evacuation/shelter in place plans, a statewide real-time bed tracking system, and continuing exercises.

For more information about the grant program contact the Department of Health’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response at 1-800-738-2301.

Enhancing the capacity to manage emerging public health threats and emergencies is one objective of the department’s Health 2010 Initiative.

Facilities and their grant awards are listed below:

• Aberdeen – Avera St. Luke’s Hospital, $20,000; Dakota Plains Surgical Center, $3,000
• Alcester – Alcester Medical Clinic, $1,500
• Armour – Douglas County Memorial Hospital, $12,500
• Bison – Bison Community Clinic, $1,500
• Bowdle – Bowdle Hospital, $12,500
• Britton – Marshall County Healthcare Center, $5,000
• Brookings – Brookings Hospital, $20,000
• Bryant – Bryant Clinic, $1,500
• Burke – Community Memorial Hospital, $5,000
• Canton – Canton-Inwood Memorial Hospital, $17,000
• Chamberlain – Sanford Mid-Dakota Hospital, $17,000
• Clark – Sanford Clinic-Clark, $1,500
• Clear Lake – Sanford Deuel County Memorial Hospital, $17,000
• Custer – Custer Regional Hospital, $5,000
• Dakota Dunes – Siouxland Surgery Center Limited Partnership, $3,000
• Deadwood – Lead-Deadwood Regional Hospital, $17,000
• Dell Rapids – Avera Dells Area Health Center, $17,000
• DeSmet – DeSmet Memorial Hospital, $17,000
• Eagle Butte – Eagle Butte IHS Hospital, $12,500
• Elk Point – Elk Point Community Health Clinic, $1,500
• Eureka – Eureka Community Health Services, $12,500
• Faith – Faith Community Health Center, $1,500
• Faulkton – Faulkton Area Medical Center, $5,000
• Flandreau – Avera Flandreau Medical Center, $17,000; Flandreau Tribal Clinic, $2,000
• Freeman – Freeman Community Hospital, $17,000
• Ft. Thompson – Ft. Thompson IHS Clinic, $2,000
• Gettysburg – Gettysburg Memorial Hospital, $12,500
• Gregory – Avera Gregory Healthcare Center, $17,500
• Highmore – Highmore Rural Health Clinic Inc., $1,500
• Hot Springs – Fall River Hospital, $12,500; Black Hills Veterans Administration Hospital, $20,000
• Hoven – Holy Infant Hospital, $5,000
• Howard – Howard Clinic, $1,500
• Huron – Huron Regional Medical Center, $17,000
• Isabel – Prairie Community Health Inc., $1,500
• Kyle – Kyle IHS Clinic, $2,000
• Lower Brule – Lower Brule IHS Clinic, $1,500
• Madison – Madison Community Hospital, $17,000
• Martin – Bennett County Healthcare Center, $5,000
• McIntosh – McIntosh Health Clinic, $1,500
• McLaughlin - McLaughlin IHS Clinic, $1,500
• Milbank – Avera Milbank Area Hospital, $17,000
• Miller – Hand County Memorial Hospital, $17,000
• Mission – Mission Medical Clinic, $2,000
• Mitchell – Avera Queen of Peace, $20,000
• Mobridge – Mobridge Regional Hospital, $17,000
• Murdo – Jones County Clinic, $1,500
• Parkston – Avera St. Benedict Health Center, $17,000
• Philip – Hans. P. Peterson Memorial Hospital, $5,000
• Pierre – St. Mary’s Hospital, $20,000
• Pine Ridge – Pine Ridge IHS Hospital, $20,000
• Plankinton – Aurora County Clinic, $1,500
• Platte – Platte Health Center, $17,000
• Rapid City – Black Hills Surgery Center LLP, $3,000; Community Health Center of the Black Hills Inc., $2,000; Rapid City IHS Hospital, $20,000; Rapid City Regional Hospital, $30,000; Same Day Surgery Center LLC, $3,000
• Redfield – Community Memorial Hospital, $17,000
• Rosebud – Rosebud IHS Hospital, $20,000
• Scotland – Landmann-Jungman Memorial Hospital, $17,000
• Sioux Falls – Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota, $20,000; Avera McKennan Hospital University Health Center, $30,000; Children’s Care Hospital & School, $3,000; Falls Community Health, $2,000; Sanford Hospital University Medical Center, $30,000; Select Specialty Hospital, $3,000; Sioux Falls Surgical Center LLP, $3,000; Sioux Falls Veterans Administration Hospital, $20,000.
• Sisseton – Coteau des Prairies Hospital, $20,000; Sisseton IHS Clinic, $2,000
• Spearfish – Spearfish Regional Hospital, $20,000; Spearfish Surgery Center, $3,000
• Sturgis – Sturgis Regional Hospital, $17,000
• Tyndall – St. Michael’s Hospital, $17,000
• Vermillion – Sanford Vermillion Hospital, $17,000
• Viborg – Pioneer Memorial Hospital, $12,500
• Wagner – Wagner Community Memorial Hospital, $17,000; Wagner IHS Clinic, $2,000  
• Wall – Wall Health Services, $1,500
• Wanblee – Wanblee IHS Clinic, $1,500
• Watertown – Prairie Lakes Hospital, $20,000
• Webster – Sanford Webster Hospital, $17,000
• Wessington Springs – Avera Weskota Memorial Medical Center, $17,000
• White River – Mellette County Health Clinic, $1,500
• Winner – Winner Regional Healthcare Center, $17,000
• Woonsocket – Whiting Memorial Clinic, $1,500
• Yankton – Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, $20,000; Lewis & Clark Specialty Hospital, $3,000