Monument Health to invest $80 million in Spearfish health care

SPEARFISH, S.D. (May 25, 2022) – Monument Health announced two major construction projects in the Spearfish area.

In one of the projects, the Spearfish Hospital campus on Main Street will nearly double in size. In the other, Monument Health will build a new multispecialty clinic off Interstate 90 Exit 17 near the Elkhorn Ridge neighborhood at the eastern edge of Spearfish. Together, the projects represent an $80 million investment in Spearfish area health care.

“With population growth, medical advances and the growing need for specialty care in the Spearfish area, the time has come for a health care transformation in the Northern Hills,” said Paulette Davidson, President and CEO of Monument Health. “This community deserves nothing less.”

The Monument Health Foundation is committed to contributing $6 million toward the Spearfish projects. The Foundation has $3.5 million in existing funds, and the campaign that launches today has a goal of raising the remaining $2.5 million specifically earmarked to expand the Spearfish Hospital’s Emergency Department.

“The Spearfish community has always stepped up when a need arises. In 1963, the Spearfish community came together to build the 20-bed Lookout Memorial Hospital. I’m sure the community will step up once again,” said Hans Nelson, Director of the Monument Health Foundation.

In a separate announcement in Rapid City, Monument Health unveiled plans for a Children’s expansion project at Rapid City Hospital.

SPEARFISH HOSPITAL CAMPUS

In 2018, Monument Health (Spearfish Regional Hospital at that time) was looking at a proposal to build a completely new health care campus on the north edge of Spearfish near Interstate 90 Exit 10. However, Monument Health leaders with community input determined that the existing hospital location near the heart of downtown Spearfish would better meet the needs of the growing Spearfish community.

According to preliminary design work for the Spearfish Hospital project, officials plan for up to 78,000 square feet of new construction, and 13,000 square feet that will be remodeled. Upon completion, the hospital could have up to 8 operating rooms, 2 endoscopic procedure rooms, 15 medical-surgical patient rooms and 2 intensive care unit rooms.

“Of all the elements of the Spearfish Hospital project, the one most critically needed is the expansion and relocation of the Emergency Department,” said Thomas Worsley, President of Spearfish Hospital and Hills Markets.

The department will move to the south end of the hospital, with a dedicated North Avenue entrance. In addition, the new Emergency Department could have approximately 10,000 square feet, with 12 exam rooms and a covered drive-through ambulance garage.

MULTISPECIALTY CLINIC

The new clinic will be built along U.S. Highway 85 just south of I-90 Exit 17. The new clinic will be a single-story, 37,000-square-foot building offering easy access to specialized medical care to include Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Massage Therapy, Sports Medicine, Orthopedics, Podiatry, Ear-Nose-Throat/Allergy, Audiology and Dermatology for residents of the Northern Hills. Several existing Spearfish clinics, departments and offices will be consolidated into the new building.

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MEDIA CONTACT:
Dan Daly
Monument Health
605-755-9178
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