Monument Health to Invest $80 Million in Spearfish Health Care

Monument Health announced two major construction projects in the Spearfish area.

In one of the projects, the Spearfish Hospital campus on Main Street will nearly double in size. In the other, Monument Health will build a new multispecialty clinic off Interstate 90 Exit 17 near the Elkhorn Ridge neighborhood at the eastern edge of Spearfish. Together, the projects represent an $80 million investment in Spearfish area health care. 

“With population growth, medical advances and the growing need for specialty care in the Spearfish area, the time has come for a health care transformation in the Northern Hills,” said Paulette Davidson, President and CEO of Monument Health. “This community deserves nothing less.”

The Monument Health Foundation is committed to contributing $6 million toward the Spearfish projects. The Foundation has $3.5 million in existing funds, and the campaign that launches today has a goal of raising the remaining $2.5 million specifically earmarked to expand the Spearish Hospital’s Emergency Department.

“The Spearfish community has always stepped up when a need arises. In 1963, the Spearfish community came together to build the 20-bed Lookout Memorial Hospital. I’m sure the community will step up once again,” said Hans Nelson, Director of the Monument Health Foundation. 

In a separate announcement in Rapid City, Monument Health unveiled plans for a Children’s expansion project at Rapid City Hospital.