Avera Mckennan Behavioral Health Services

Gerard J. Kokett, PharmD is a pharmacist.
Pamela Hilber, PhD is a psychologist.
Taryn Peterson, DPT, PT is a physical therapist.
Christopher J. Clark, DO is a psychiatrist who practices psychiatry and student in an organized health care education/training program.
Keely Elgethun, MD is a psychiatrist.
Rebecca J. Petersen, MD is a psychiatrist who practices psychiatry and student in an organized health care education/training program.
Marci A. Gasen, AuD is an audiologist.
Dori R. Bigner is an internal medicine practitioner who practices internal medicine, hospital medicine, and primary care medicine.
Sarah M. Campbell, DO is a psychiatrist who practices psychiatry and student in an organized health care education/training program.
Christopher G. Hanley, MD is a psychiatrist.
Michelle Webb, DPT, PT is a physical therapist.
Thomas R. Tetzlaff, MD is a pediatric critical care practitioner who practices pediatric critical care medicine and pediatrics.
Jon C. Nordgren, PhD is a psychologist.
Jennifer Assam, MD.
Amber Olson, MD is a psychiatrist.
Kathy L. Reynolds, MD is a pediatric critical care practitioner who practices pediatric critical care medicine, pediatrics, emergency pediatrics, and pediatric pulmonology.
Danielle Gundermann, LPC is a professional counselor.
Thomas Otten, LPCMH is a mental health counselor.
Sherry L. Grismer, CCDC-III, LPC is a professional counselor who practices professional counseling and addiction / substance abuse counseling.
Hannah Otten, PhMNP is a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner.
Kelly Maxwell, CNP is a family nurse practitioner who practices family nurse practice and primary care medicine.
Mary E. Smith, MS, LPCMH, NCC is a mental health counselor.
Nasya Roth, PT is a physical therapist.
Heidi Wagner, MS is a counselor.
Madison Kyle, MSW, LGSW is a social worker.
Jessica Tisher is a genetic counselor.
Scott T. Strand is a physical therapist.
Sarah B. Krush, NP-C is a family nurse practitioner who practices family nurse practice, family medicine, and primary care medicine.
Mary E. Kinney, RN is a registered nurse.
Megan L. Bunker, CRNA is a nurse anesthesiologist.
Nicola Park is a mental health counselor who practices mental health counseling and addiction / substance abuse counseling.
Alexandria Klimisch, CNP is a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner.
Sena Griffith, LPC is a professional counselor.
Paige E. Thompson, CSW, PIP is a clinical social worker.
Jennifer N. Kaiser, LCSW is a clinical social worker.
Kyle A. Duke, PA is a physician assistant who practices physician assisting and primary care medicine.
Miranda R. Lang, LCSW is a social worker.
James W. Green, CCDC-II is an addiction / substance abuse counselor.
Char Skovlund, CCDC-III, LPCMH is a mental health counselor who practices mental health counseling and addiction / substance abuse counseling.

Our Facilities

Avera Mckennan Behavioral Health Services has been registered with the National Provider Identifier database since July 26, 2006 and its NPI number is 1164445250 (certified on 07/26/2006).

Book an Appointment

To schedule an appointment, please call (605) 322-8000.

Psychiatric Hospital Unit

In general, a distinct unit of a hospital that provides acute or long-term care to emotionally disturbed patients, including patients admitted for diagnosis and those admitted for treatment of psychiatric problems on the basis of physicians' orders and approved nursing care plans. Long-term care may include intensive supervision to the chronically mentally ill, mentally disordered or other mentally incompetent persons; (2) For Medicare, a distinct part of a general acute care hospital admitting only patients whose admission to the unit is required for active treatment, whose treatment is of an intensity that can be provided only in an inpatient hospital setting, and whose condition is described by a psychiatric principal diagnosis contained in the Third Edition of the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or in Chapter 5 (Mental Disorders) of the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM). The unit must furnish, through the use of qualified personnel, psychological services, social work services, psychiatric nursing, occupational therapy, and recreational therapy. The unit must maintain medical records that permit determination of the degree and intensity of treatment provided to individuals who are furnished services in the unit; the unit must meet special staff requirements in that the unit must have adequate numbers of qualified professional and supportive staff to evaluate inpatients, formulate written, individualized, comprehensive treatment plans, provide active treatment measures and engage in discharge planning.

Psychiatric Hospital Units in Sioux Falls, SD