Physician Assistant Nikole Hemish has joined the care provider team at Brookings Health System. She will see and care for patients in the emergency department and the inpatient care unit.
To celebrate Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Week, Brookings Health System’s Ambulance Service is holding a coloring contest for area elementary children in kindergarten through fifth grade.
Brookings Health System will again offer Safe@Home by SafeSitter®, a program designed for students in grades 4 to 6 to prepare them to be safe when they are home alone.
Registration is now open for the Childbirth Support Specialists Birth and Postpartum Doula workshop scheduled for May 16 and 17 at Brookings Health System.
To accommodate the region’s growing needs for cardiac, vascular and obstetrics diagnostic testing, Brookings Health System has added both a cardiovascular and a general ultrasound system to its radiology department.
Brookings Health has invested in a new GE Precision 180 remote digital radiography and fluoroscopy system which performs both high-resolution X-ray and fluoroscopy imaging.
Brookings Health System was again named a Top 20 Rural Community Hospital in the United States by the National Rural Health Association (NRHA). The health system ranked 100 percent on the winter 2026 Chartis Rural Hospital Performance INDEX, the tool used to recognize the Top 20, making it the top scoring hospital among peer rural and community hospitals across the nation.
Brookings Health System has been recognized as a six-year champion to Newsweek’s list of World’s Best Hospitals. This prestigious award was announced today by Newsweek and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The awards list can currently be viewed on Newsweek’s website.
For the eleventh consecutive year, Brookings Health System has been included by The Chartis Center for Rural Health on the Top 100 Rural & Community Hospitals list. The annual recognition program honors outstanding performance among the nation’s rural hospitals based on the results of the Chartis Rural Hospital Performance INDEX®.
Jesyna Rausch and Vivian Georgalas were elected to the Brookings Health System Foundation board of trustees at the December 2025 board meeting. They will both serve a two-year term through December 2027.