New Beginnings Birth Center at Brookings Health System is enhancing local maternity care by launching the TeamBirth program, becoming the first maternity unit in South Dakota to implement the nationally recognized initiative.
As part National Rural Health Day, Brookings Health System announced it has been recognized with a Performance Leadership Award in the outcomes measured category. Compiled by The Chartis Center for Rural Health, the Performance Leadership Awards honor top quartile performance among all rural hospitals in the nation. It is Brookings Health’s ninth consecutive year receiving a Performance Leadership Award.
Emily’s Hope, in partnership with Let’s Be Clear, is proud to announce the installation of a new community-access naloxone distribution box at Brookings Health System’s emergency entrance. This life-saving initiative expands access to naloxone across South Dakota and supports the mission to prevent opioid overdose deaths.
For the third consecutive year, the Darnall family of Medary Acres Greenhouses is answering an important emergency call: inspiring others to give to Brookings Health System Foundation. As the matching gift sponsor for the Foundation’s South Dakota Day of Giving campaign, Medary Acres Greenhouse hopes to grow funds that will help purchase a new advanced life support ambulance.
A new study conducted by the Center for Rural Vitality and Community Well-Being at South Dakota State University and commissioned by Brookings Health System demonstrates how the rural community hospital not only provides essential access to care for rural residents, but also drives the local economy.
Brookings Health System is currently accepting applications for newly graduating laboratory and nursing students interested in the Inspiring Health Sponsorship Program.
Brookings Health System has partnered again with the South Dakota Board of Nursing to offer a clinical enrichment program for nursing students. Applications for the paid summer internship are being accepted now until Oct. 31 at brookingshealth.org/CEP.