About Us
Making a difference. Every day.
Headquartered in Rapid City, S.D., Monument Health is a community-based health care system with a mission to Make a difference. Every day. The system offers care across 44 medical specialties and service lines throughout western South Dakota and eastern Wyoming. With more than 6,300 Physicians and Caregivers, Monument Health includes five hospitals and more than 60 outpatient locations including medical clinics, urgent care locations and specialty centers. Monument Health provides comprehensive care close to home while serving patients throughout the broader region. Monument Health is a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network.
Monument Health is committed to the future of medicine, with medical training partnerships, a medical residency program and more than 130 active research studies. We are confident about western South Dakota’s future, and we’re honored to be your partner in delivering excellence in health care.
Our vision is to be one team, to listen, to be inclusive and to show we care.
We serve an area that covers 400 miles. Comprehensive, high-quality care is our top priority.
Empowered by our valuable collaboration with Mayo Clinic, you will never be far from world-class care.
We believe health care is about innovation and we are proud to offer a supportive environment in which cutting-edge scholarship thrives.
We are growing and always striving to bring to our facilities the top talent that reflects our expectations and improves your care.
With the majestic Black Hills as our backdrop, we maintain a consistent and supportive presence in our communities, our region and beyond.
Our Locations
Our History
Monument Health traces its history back to 1878, when Sisters of the Holy Cross opened a hospital in gold rush mining camp of Deadwood. Other communities, including Sturgis, Custer, Spearfish and Rapid City, built hospitals of their own in subsequent years.
Rapid City had two hospitals, St. John’s McNamara and Bennett-Clarkson. However, by the 1970s high costs and new medical technology prompted local officials to look at merging the hospitals into a single system. In December 1979, the combined Rapid City Regional Hospital opened. In later years, health care providers in Custer, Lead-Deadwood, Sturgis, Spearfish and other communities joined the Monument Health network.
In 2022, Monument Health Lead-Deadwood Hospital celebrated 125 of caring for the Black Hills Community. A special History of Health Care book was created.