SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A state-of-the-art $109 million health
center is set to open in Eagle Butte, S.D., next month, providing
members of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe with a major upgrade from
the circa-1959 hospital it has long outgrown.
More than $84 million in federal stimulus funds helped speed
construction of the Cheyenne River Health Center.
The new 138,500-square-foot center will house both tribal health
services and a hospital run by the federal Indian Health Service,
replacing an outdated facility that's less than one-third of the
new center's size.
New features include a 32-slice CT scan machine, an ultrasound
machine, a 10-bed inpatient hospital and a larger and more advanced
emergency room.
But the hospital will not have a birthing center, as federal
regulations require a surgical unit to offer that service.
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