Healthcare System Overview

Sanford Health: Transforming Healthcare with World-Class Services and Global Reach

The Tracy clinic underwent a $1.2 million renovation in 2010. The hospital offers laboratory, radiology, rehabilitation, and emergency room services.   

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the healthcare experience and providing access to world-class healthcare in America’s heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization serves more than one million patients and 220,000 health plan members across 250,000 square miles. The integrated health system has 47 medical centers, 2,800 Sanford physicians and advanced practice providers, 170 clinical investigators and research scientists, more than 200 Good Samaritan Society senior care locations, and world clinics in 8 countries around the globe. 

Sanford Health, one of the largest health systems in the United States, is dedicated to the integrated delivery of health care, genomic medicine, senior care and services, global clinics, research, and affordable insurance. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization includes 46 Medical Centers, 1,500+ Physicians, 1,200+ APPs, and more than 200 Good Samaritan Society senior care locations in 26 states and nine countries.     

Each year, Sanford Health provides

  • 5.2 million outpatient and clinic visits  
  • 82,848 admissions  
  • 127,875 surgeries and procedures  
  • 9,163 births  
  • 194,864 emergency department visits   

Sanford Health includes

  • 47 medical centers  
  • 224 clinic locations  
  • 200 Good Samaritan Society senior care locations  
  • 158 skilled nursing and rehab facilities  
  • 42 affordable housing locations  
  • 220,000 Sanford Health Plan members  
  • 47,757 employees  
  • 2,800 Sanford physicians and advanced practice providers and 8,716 registered nurses delivering care in more than 80 specialty areas  

Centers of Excellence

  • Cancer  
  • Children’s  
  • Heart  
  • Orthopedics/Sports Medicine  
  • Women’s Health  

Denny Sanford

Denny Sanford gives $400 Million to Sioux Falls Hospital  

The hospital system will receive $50 million a year over the next eight years. The donation will help create five pediatric clinics around the country, and link the clinics with research being done at a new Sioux Falls children's hospital. Sanford Health will also select and fund one major research project that's yet to be decided. 

Mr. Sanford’s gifts to Sanford Health extend well beyond the $400 million gift. Prior donations include:  

  • 2004 – $16 million for the new Sanford Children’s Hospital 
  • 2007 – $5 million to create the Mayo Clinic/Sanford Health pediatric collaboration 
  • 2007 – $20 million directed for growth and development of the Sanford School of Medicine of The University of South Dakota 
  • 2008 – $20 million to the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in LaJolla, CA to establish the Sanford Children’s Health Research Center in California and South Dakota  

Sanford has already contributed $20 million to Sioux Valley to expand its project with the University of South Dakota Medical School, and $16 million for the Sanford Children's Hospital which will be built over the next year and a half. 

Sanford also gave $70 million to develop the underground science lab at the abandoned Homestake gold mine in Lead. 

Sept. 8, 2021 — The transformation of rural health care continues as Sanford Health announced today an additional $350 million philanthropic gift that will support a cutting-edge clinical initiative to create one of the world’s leading virtual care centers to provide accessible care in rural and underserved areas of the Midwest. Since March, Denny Sanford has committed $650 million to supporting Sanford Health’s groundbreaking initiatives, bringing his total giving to the nation’s largest rural health care system to nearly $1.5 billion. 

https://news.sanfordhealth.org/news-release/sanford-health-announces-new-350m-gift-for-rural-health/  

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