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A Gift That Grows

WebAvera Children’s Hospital is a “hospital within a hospital” with more than 110 beds dedicated to children, including our Pediatrics Unit, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and nursery, as well as our child and adolescent units at the Avera Behavioral Health Hospital. Our entire pediatrics program is

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Caring for Life Supporting Greatest Need

WebGifts like yours to the Caring for Life fund may assist with coverage of services unmet by insurance. Your generosity enriches, extends, and enhances lives. Gifts to Avera Foundation have provided state-of-the-art equipment and technology for patients and families, supported capital campaigns and vital health care across the Avera footprint.

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Home for Hope Lodging for Patients and Families

WebYour gifts provide hope and affordable lodging close to the hospital and clinics for families and patients receiving lifesaving care. Nearly 60% of individuals served at Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center visit from beyond Sioux Falls area. Because of the Home for Hope Campaign, thousands of patients and families are benefiting

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Lighting the Way Through Behavioral Health Expansion

WebAvera is making the journey through mental health easier through your compassion and generosity. As the Helmsley Behavioral Health Center opens throughout March and April, it’s opening in the newly renamed Avera Behavioral Health Hospital. The 60,000 square foot addition will provide a vast scope of work. • Expansion of inpatient beds for

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One Family, Countless Lives: Cancer Diagnosis Fuels Planned Gift

WebA positive spirit and willingness to give back to support future generations. These all describe Bob Nielsen from Highmore, S.D. Thanks to his generosity, Avera St. Mary’s Hospital can provide additional services for breast cancer patients close to home.

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Dr. Lyle and Megan Biegler

WebThe Bieglers started at Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center in 2004, Megan as an administrative fellow and Lyle as a family medicine resident. They moved on to Avera St. Luke’s Hospital three years later, and started donating to the employee giving campaign about 10 years ago. They love their work, and both feel that the Avera

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Emergency Food Bags Deliver Results

WebThe staff at Avera Dialysis in Sioux Falls identified food insecurity in some of their patients, and because they know the health risks that presents, they reached out to the Avera Foundation for funds to pilot an emergency food bag program. They filled the bags with a variety of healthy foods and recipes with nutrition information and preparation instructions.

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Individual, Couple or Family: Scott and Julia Jones, Pierre, SD

WebIndividual, Couple or Family: Scott and Julia Jones, Pierre, SD. This award celebrates transformative and substantial philanthropic support to Avera.

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Regional Philanthropy Councils

WebThe Avera Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) organization. The Avera Foundation is supported by dedicated councils who assist in fundraising activities with a responsibility toward development of philanthropic support for the mission, vision and goals of Avera to support our communities. These community members inspire Avera’s philanthropic agenda.

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Business, Organization or Foundation

WebBusiness, Organization or Foundation: A&B Business Solutions, Sioux Falls, SD This award celebrates loyalty to Avera through philanthropic support, volunteerism, corporate giving, and engagement.

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Jennifer Kirby: Finding Housing Close to Care is Priceless

WebAvera has a legacy of providing patient and family housing in Sioux Falls. However, the demand is always greater than the supply. Together, we will raise $2.5 million in generous support to build upon this tradition and provide vital support to hundreds of patients that come to Sioux Falls each year for lifesaving care.

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New Look, Same You

WebThe 2019 Avera Sacred Heart Grand Give conducted a live Fund-A-Need during the event to raise over $8,500 for “New Look, Same You.”. Thanks to a matching gift from Kyle and Kristi Tacke, one night of giving provided the spark needed to get this program off the ground. “My wife was diagnosed with cancer in January 2019, so we sought

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Avera Guardian Awards

WebThe Scottish Rite Foundation of South Dakota received the Business, Organization or Foundation award, recognizing loyalty to Avera through philanthropic support, volunteerism, corporate give and engagement. The Scottish Rite Foundation of South Dakota is dedicated to providing speech therapy resources for children who otherwise would not have access …

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Stories of Gratitude

WebStories of Gratitude. The impact the Avera Foundation has had on patients and families throughout the upper Midwest has inspired some of them to give back. The generosity of many of our friends provides our foundation with the dollars to meet health care needs of people throughout eastern South Dakota and neighboring states. With these gifts

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Learning from Larry

WebLearning from Larry. Donations to the Employee Giving Campaign save lives, and to see that in action, look no further than Airway Larry. Airway Larry is an adult airway mannequin trainer head that simulates a non-anesthetized patient for practicing intubation, ventilation, suction and CPR techniques.

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