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center will house both tribal health services and a hospital run by the federal Indian Health Service, replacing an outdated facility that's less than one-third of the new center's size.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.
