#LIVENOW AVERA TRIAL#
Since 2011, Avera has been part of an international trial based in Salzburg, Austria, testing a protocol for women age 41 and over with early stage breast cancer that delivers electron-based intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) at the time of lumpectomy followed by three weeks of external beam radiation therapy, shortening follow-up external beam radiation therapy by three weeks. The Avera Research Institute is conducts clinical trials, cancer registries for breast and thyroid tumors, oncology research nurses, and investigator initiated studies.
#LIVENOW AVERA PLUS#
The Avera Institute for Human Genetics offers personalized medicine for pain management, behavioral health and more, plus DNA analysis as part of the world’s largest twin study, the Netherlands Twins Register (NTR).
Working primarily with breast and gynecologic cancer patients, this team uses genetic analysis to recommend therapies targeted to fight an individual tumor. Research, genomics and genetics Īvera’s genomics team involves multiple professionals locally and internationally. Avera Careflight Īvera health has operated an air ambulance since May 1986.
eCARE partners with hospitals to provide increased access to specialists through:Īvera eCARE was sold to Aquiline Capital Partners in the fourth quarter of 2021 and rebranded as Avel eCare. eCARE uses interactive video and technology to connect with outlying sites through a virtual hospital based in Sioux Falls. Their focus is on meeting the health care needs of the communities they serve.Īvera has provided virtual care that dates back to 1993.Over the years, the sisters have served in many roles, from governance and administration, to nursing, lab and dietary.These two religious orders serve as Avera’s sponsors that is, their association with Avera gives it the status of officially being a work of the Catholic Church.
The name Avera is derived from a Latin term meaning “to be well.”Īvera came into existence when two orders of religious women-the Benedictine Sisters of Yankton, South Dakota, and the Presentation Sisters of Aberdeen, South Dakota -merged their Catholic health care systems into a single entity. With more than 16,000 employees and physicians, Avera is South Dakota’s largest private employer. Today, Avera Health Plans serves individuals, families, and employer groups in South Dakota and Iowa and is the third largest health plan in the state of South Dakota. In addition to care, Avera Health Plans was created in 1999 to offer affordable health insurance and a large network of providers. Throughout the region, Avera Health offers care in 60 distinct specialties, including behavioral health, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, brain and spine, neurosurgery, digestive disease, bariatrics, dermatology, endocrinology and diabetes, ophthalmology, pulmonology and sleep medicine, pain management, neonatology, pediatrics, rheumatology, women’s specialties and more. Īs a fully integrated health system, Avera Health includes Avera Medical Group, which is composed of physicians and advanced practice providers who serve patients at nearly 200 secure locations across the five-state region. Avera serves a geographical footprint of more than 72,000 square miles and 86 counties, and a population of nearly 1 million. Avera Health is a regional health system based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, comprising more than 300 locations in 100 communities throughout South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota.
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