Physician-Owned Care for the Black Hills
Rapid City Medical Center (RCMC) is a locally owned, physician-led multi-specialty medical group dedicated to providing high-quality, patient-centered care for individuals and families across the Black Hills. For decades, we’ve combined advanced medicine with a deep commitment to our community, delivering care that is personal, accessible, and built to last.
Who We Are
Built on a deep commitment to stewardship, community, and patient protection. As responsible stewards of healthcare in the Black Hills, we make thoughtful decisions that prioritize long-term sustainability, clinical excellence, and responsible use of resources, always with patients at the center.
Being local is core to who we are. Our physicians, providers, and leadership live and work in the communities we serve, allowing us to deliver care that is personal, responsive, and grounded in the real needs of our region. This local ownership empowers us to invest back into our community, retain experienced providers, and maintain continuity of care across generations.
Above all, we are protective of our patients. We safeguard access, affordability, and trust by coordinating care across specialties, reducing unnecessary complexity, and advocating for what is best for each individual. Free from corporate control, Rapid City Medical Center exists to provide comprehensive, connected care, guided by physicians and designed to protect the health and well-being of our community today and into the future.
Our Mission
Independent physicians uplifting our patients, sharing the journey of health.
Our Vision
To be your first-choice physicians providing superior healthcare and personalized service.
Our Values
- Freedom to practice best medicine without impediments
- Physicians streamlining decision making for the betterment of patients
- Willing to be innovative and make changes to better patients’ and physicians’ experience
- Entrepreneurism commensurate with hard work and value
- Desire for group practice’s long-term existence
- Excellent physicians committed to the forefront of medical advancements while maintaining a deep concern for patients
- Willing to change to meet patients’ expectations
- Promoting meaningful, fulfilling relationships with and among patients, partners, employees
- Committing to actions for a purpose higher than ourselves
- Honesty, trust, fulfillment
Management Team
Rapid City Medical Center is guided by an experienced executive team committed to operational excellence, physician partnership, and patient-centered care. Together, our leadership team works closely with physician leaders to ensure strategic growth, quality care delivery, and long-term stability for our organization and community.
Jay Hammerquist
Chief Executive Officer
Heather Bindel
Chief Operations Officer
Rebekah Wolkenhauer
Chief Financial Officer
Colleen Bsharah
Human Resources Director
Kylie Tucker
Director of Clinical Support Staff
Wendy Hopson
Business Services Director
Jay Hammerquist
Chief Executive Officer
Heather Bindel
Chief Operations Officer
Rebekah Wolkenhauer
Chief Financial Officer
Colleen Bsharah
Human Resources Director
Kylie Tucker
Director of Clinical Support Staff
Wendy Hopson
Business Services Director
Physician Owned Since 1948
Rapid City Medical Center is a medical practice comprised of five locations, including an urgent care clinic, in Rapid City, South Dakota. Our group boasts a team of more than 80 providers and caregivers whose specialties include allergy, asthma and immunology, dermatology, ENT (including audiology), family medicine, gastroenterology, internal medicine, OB/GYN, eye care, pediatrics, podiatry, rheumatology, surgery, urgent care, interventional pain and more.
Rapid City Medical Center was established in 1948 as a physician-owned practice and has since built an on-going tradition of excellence in healthcare.
Founding Physicians
Ray. E. Lemley,
M.D
1902-1993
• Urology
• Proctology
• Dermatology
Murlin Paul Merryman, M.D.
1907-1994
• Internal Medicine
John Donald Bailey, M.D.
1906-1993
• Pediatrics
• Obstetrics
Francis Ray Williams,
M.D.
1908-2000
• General Surgery
• Orthopedics
• Gynecology
Multi-Specialty Tradition of Excellence
The Purpose and Aim of This Organization….
Original Articles of Association May 1, 1948
