Regional Health of Rapid City plans to sell three nursing homes to a Minnesota company.

Regional Health Chief Operating Officer Tim Sughrue says the Fox Family Trust has agreed to purchase the properties and lease them to Mission HealthCare, LLC, of Jordan, Minn. The nursing homes are David M. Dorsett Regional Senior Care in  Spearfish, Belle Fourche Regional Senior Care and Sunpointe  Regional Senior Care, an assisted living center within the Belle  Fourche facility.

Sughrue says the deal could be completed as early as the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2010. He says patients shouldn't notice any changes. Sughrue says Regional Health is shifting its focus to clinics and hospitals.