New Rapid City Hospital Emergency Department

The new Monument Health Rapid City Hospital Emergency Department opened on Sept. 11, 2019, at 4 a.m.

To reach the new Emergency Department: enter from Third Street via Fairmont Boulevard, or from Fifth Street south of the construction zone.

Rapid City Hospital Expansion Facts

Rapid City Hospital’s Emergency Department cares for 2,200 patients per patient room per year. The national average is 1,800.
Rapid City Hospital Emergency Department is the busiest emergency department in South Dakota with 57,000 visits annually.
Our patient volume has outgrown current capacity – patients must be treated in our hallways daily.
The current Emergency Department is 19,000 square feet; the new Emergency Department will be more than 44,000 square feet.
The helipad, in its current location, requires additional ground transportation after landing; the new helipad will be on the roof, a short elevator ride to the Emergency Department.
The new Emergency Department will have 22 exam beds, 8 trauma/resuscitation beds, 3 behavioral health private exam beds and 1 communal safe room/holding area as well as 2 vertical exam rooms with an additional 8 recliner areas. There will also be an additional 12 bed short-stay observation unit.
The new Heart and Vascular Unit will be 40 percent larger than the current space and have 32 patient rooms.
There will be dedicated Emergency Department walk-in parking in the new location.
The expanded covered parking will give patients and visitors quick convenient access to other Monument Health healing environments.
The new enclosed drive-through Ambulance Garage will house up to six ambulances, reducing drop-off time and increasing efficiency.
This construction overall adds 1,252 new parking spaces.