Jobs at Avera Health

Avera Health delivers top-quality, compassionate care through a connected system of locations and expert providers, all focused on you and your family. We’re available 24/7 to answer your questions or help you find the right services.

No matter where you enter our doors, we work together to offer you the latest medical expertise and technology close to home. As a leading nonprofit health system in the Upper Midwest, Avera serves South Dakota and surrounding areas of Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota. Our footprint reaches across 72,000 square miles and a population of 1 million.

• Regional centers based in Aberdeen, Mitchell, Pierre, Sioux Falls and Yankton, SD, and Marshall, MN
• Tertiary medical center: Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center in Sioux Falls, SD
• 36 community and critical access hospitals
• Primary and specialty care clinics
• Senior living facilities – long-term care, assisted living and independent living
• Home care and hospice
• Sports and fitness
• Pharmacies
• Home medical equipment

Care Close to Home

With over 60 medical specialties, Avera offers a full continuum of health services with nationally recognized quality. 

Driven by Our Mission

As the health ministry of the Benedictine Sisters of Yankton, SD, and the Presentation Sisters of Aberdeen, SD, we carry on our sponsors’ legacy and century-long commitment to providing faith-based health care.

Mission is central to all we do at Avera. Avera is a health ministry rooted in the Gospel. Our mission is to make a positive impact in the lives and health of persons and communities guided by Christian values.

Avera employees and caregivers live out the mission and values of Hospitality, Compassion and Stewardship, each and every day, in every patient encounter.

A Ministry Rooted in the Gospel

At Avera, we are compelled by our mission and values:

• To respect the sacredness of every person uniquely created in the image of God.
• To serve and advocate for those whose social condition puts them at the margins of society.
• To work toward greater equity and justice for our patients, employees and communities.

God is the author of diversity and Jesus’ ministry reflected this. Avera exercises responsible stewardship of health care resources to promote health equity and the good of our communities.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Avera offers programs and initiatives to promote health equity and human flourishing among all persons with special attention to those whose social condition puts them at the margins of society and makes them particularly vulnerable to discrimination.

Employee Culture

Avera employees are engaged through educational programs on topics such as Catholic social teaching, self-awareness and developing cultural competence. Employees from diverse backgrounds are assisted in their transition to working at Avera through mentorship and programs such as English as a second language classes.