Avera Health
Sioux Falls, SD · Health system
NIH Funding · FY2026
NIH funds Avera Health's hospitals as separate organizations. These figures add up the FY2026 NIH awards of its member organizations.
#36 of 83 health systems by FY2026 NIH funding. All health systems
Member hospitals
1 of Avera Health's members have FY2026 NIH awards, shown with the ScienceDex institution that holds them.
| Member hospital | NIH organization | Funding | Grants | PIs | All-institution rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avera MckennanHospital | Avera Mckennan | $10.3M | 4 | 7 | #300of 2,521 |
41 other member hospitals have no FY2026 NIH awards
Avera Creighton Hospital, Avera Dells Area Hospital, Avera Flandreau Hospital, Avera Gettysburg Hospital, Avera Granite Falls, Avera Gregory Hospital, Avera Hand County Memorial Hospital, Avera Heart Hospital Of South Dakota, Avera Holy Family Health, Avera Marshall Regional Medical Ctr, Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital, Avera Queen Of Peace Hospital, Avera Queen Of Peace Hospital, Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, Avera St Mary's, Avera St. Anthonys Hospital, Avera St. Benedict Health Center, Avera St. Luke's, Avera Surgical Hospital, Avera Weskota Memorial Medical Cente, Dakota Plains Surgical Center, De Smet Memorial Hospital, Eureka Community Health Services, Eureka Community Health Services Avera, Floyd Valley Hospital, Freeman Regional Health Services, Hegg Memorial Health Center, Lakes Regional Healthcare, Landmann-Jungman Memorial Hospital, Marshall County Healthcare Center, Milbank Area Hospital/Avera Health, Osceola Regional Health Center, Pipestone County Medical Center, Pipestone County Medical Center Avera Health, Platte Health Center Inc., Regional Health Services Of Howard C, Sioux Center Health, St. Michaels Hospital Inc., Tri Valley Health System, Tyler Healthcare Center and Wagner Community Memorial Hospital.
- Members: AHRQ, Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2023 (data year 2023, retrieved September 27, 2026), which lists 42 hospitals in this system. Hospital names are AHRQ's, which AHRQ sometimes shortens. NIH organizations were matched to AHRQ hospitals by name, city and state, and every inexact match was checked by hand. Rank is each organization's place among 2,521 institutions in the FY2026 all-institution ranking. How health systems are counted
Departments by funding
No FY2026 award at these members has a department.
- Department figures follow the department-ranking rules: awards with an NIH or assigned department, not R&D contracts. They cover $0 of the $10,338,435 total; awards without a department count only in the total.
- NIH gives hospital awards no department code. Each one counts under its contact PI's own department, from their PubMed affiliations. When no affiliation names a department, the department comes from the award's topic. Cancer centers, research institutes and other organizations that are not typed as hospitals have no department. How departments are assigned
Top funded principal investigators
Highest-funded PIs across Avera Health's members in FY2026, by the full amounts of the awards that list them.