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Latest Hospital Capacity In Sioux Falls Area
Updated federal data shows how many hospital beds are currently filled in Minnehaha County.

SIOUX FALLS, SD — COVID-19 hospitalizations continued to decline nationally, but the country still needs time to get back to pre-omicron variant hospital occupancy levels.
Around 128,500 inpatient beds were being used for COVID-19 patients as of Feb. 1, which was a drop of more than 20,000 beds from the prior week, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
State health officials in South Dakota reported to the federal government Feb. 1 that approximately 64 percent of inpatient beds and 60 percent of intensive care unit beds in hospitals across the state were occupied. Around 17 percent of inpatient beds and 31 percent of ICU beds statewide were filled by COVID-19 patients, they reported.
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The latest hospitalization numbers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Minnehaha County, included below, are from Jan. 21-27 and represent a rolling seven-day average. Note that the figures for occupied hospital beds sometimes exceed 100 percent; this is because more than one patient sometimes occupies a bed over the course of a week.
Below are the latest figures for hospitals in Minnehaha County.
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SANFORD USD MEDICAL CENTER
1305 W 18TH ST POST OFFICE BOX 5039, SIOUX FALLS
- All adult inpatient beds: 465
- Inpatient beds occupied: 293.1
- Inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 95.6
- Percent of inpatient beds used: 63.03%
- Percent of inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 20.56%
- All adult ICU beds: 77
- ICU beds occupied: 37.6
- ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 19.9
- Percent of ICU beds used: 48.83%
- Percent of ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 25.84%
AVERA MCKENNAN HOSPITAL & UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER
1325 S CLIFF AVE POST OFFICE BOX 5045, SIOUX FALLS
- All adult inpatient beds: 236
- Inpatient beds occupied: 232.1
- Inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 99.3
- Percent of inpatient beds used: 98.35%
- Percent of inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 42.08%
- All adult ICU beds: 40
- ICU beds occupied: 36.7
- ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 28.1
- Percent of ICU beds used: 91.75%
- Percent of ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 70.25%
AVERA HEART HOSPITAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA
4500 W 69TH ST, SIOUX FALLS
- All adult inpatient beds: 65
- Inpatient beds occupied: 31.1
- Inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 4
- Percent of inpatient beds used: 47.85%
- Percent of inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 6.15%
- All adult ICU beds: 10
- ICU beds occupied: 7.1
- ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: N/A
- Percent of ICU beds used: 71.00%
- Percent of ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: N/A
SIOUX FALLS SPECIALTY HOSPITAL LLP
910 EAST 20TH STREET, SIOUX FALLS
- All adult inpatient beds: 33
- Inpatient beds occupied: 10.9
- Inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: N/A
- Percent of inpatient beds used: 33.03%
- Percent of inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: N/A
- All adult ICU beds: 0
- ICU beds occupied: 0
- ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 0
- Percent of ICU beds used: N/A
- Percent of ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: N/A
SELECT SPECIALTY HOSPITAL - SOUTH DAKOTA
1305 WEST 18TH STREET, SIOUX FALLS
- All adult inpatient beds: 24
- Inpatient beds occupied: 20.4
- Inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 0
- Percent of inpatient beds used: 85.00%
- Percent of inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 0.00%
- All adult ICU beds: 0
- ICU beds occupied: 0
- ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 0
- Percent of ICU beds used: N/A
- Percent of ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: N/A
Editor’s note: This list was automatically generated using data compiled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The local hospitals included in the list are limited to those included in the government data, and the numbers reported by these hospitals to HHS have not been independently verified by Patch. Please report any errors or other feedback to us.
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