Healthcare System Overview

Sanford Health is the largest Rural Medical Organization in the United States and overall, one of the largest Health Systems in the United States. Encompassing 47 Medical Centers, 1,500+ physicians, 1,200+ APPs, as well as a $20M Children’s Health Research Center. Our reach stretches from South Dakota where our Children’s Hospital is located to North Dakota, Iowa and even Minnesota.

Healthcare System Overview

Sanford Health Bismarck is a not-for-profit Level II trauma, 220-bed teaching hospital with a 125 daily inpatient census. (http://www.sanfordhealth.org/bismarck/about).

It is one of two hospitals servicing a three-state region, as well as Canada, of over 300,000 patient lives. The hospital is a full-service healthcare facility providing all levels of patient care and surgeries except burn care.

The clinic and hospital feature modern equipment, ORs, and facilities. The hospital has web distribution of digital images with cable/T-1 line access to the physician offices in the clinic. The clinic and hospital are on Centricity EMR. The medical center uses nurse practitioners and physician assistants throughout the hospital and in our clinics. We have three nursing schools in town. Sanford and the University of Mary have 4-year nursing programs and Bismarck State College has a two-year program. They will also offer a mid-year graduation to ensure a steadier flow of nurses. The University of Mary in Bismarck graduates between 50 and 60 nurses each year and provides a master’s program in nursing.

Sanford Health-Bismarck Hospital Features: 

  • 11 ORs, 4 Endo suites, 2 OB Rooms, 2 Cath Labs (2 new OR suites will be added in February 2012)
  • 13 Bay ER (will increase to 16 after construction is completed)
  • Level III nursery featuring a 15-bed OB Unit with one neonatologist and a 15 bed Pediatric Unit with 6 same day surgery beds
  • 12-bed ICU with a 1 to 2 RN/patient ratio
  • 24-bed CCU
  • 43-bed MedSurg Unit with a 1 to 5 RN/patient ratio
  • 19-bed Oncology Unit with two linear accelerators at Bismarck Cancer Center
  • 26-bed Orthopaedic unit with 2 Neurosurgeons and 6 Orthopods
  • 20-bed Inpatient rehab unit
  • 20-bed Psychiatric Unit
  • 15-bed renal dialysis unit with 9 station hospital unit
  • 4-bed Sleep Lab
  • Multi-bed transitional care unit (sub-acute) with 18 beds
  • Excellent Radiology with Digital imaging featuring Mobile PET, MRI, Aquilion One 360 slice CT with 3D reconstruction, 3D and 4D Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine
  • Easy Street Environments Physical Therapy with full scope of therapists and therapy services. Indoor simulated streets with café, sidewalks, restaurant, bank, grocery store, shops, ATM, apartments, car, and pickup truck.
  • Nurses go through a 4–6-month training process where they are shadowed by a senior nurse to acclimate seamlessly into Sanford. 

Community Clinics

Besides the main hospital facility, Sanford has various clinics throughout Bismarck and Mandan. We have a walk-in clinic across the street from our hospital and in north Bismarck. The walk-in clinics are open Monday through Friday from 8am - 9pm, Saturday, Sunday, and holidays they are open from 10am - 4pm. We have a pediatric walk-in clinic located on the third floor of our main clinic downtown, which is open from 8am - 8pm Monday through Friday. We have primary care clinics in north and south Bismarck as well as two clinics in Mandan. The Sanford North Clinic is positioned perfectly to capitalize on this community’s growth. In 2008, an $11 million, 128-bed nursing home was constructed on the campus of the Mandan North Clinic and the community recently constructed a new junior high school.

Sanford Health Bismarck also has a primary care clinic in Dickinson which is 100 miles west of Bismarck. A new $30 million-dollar 80K square foot clinic opened in the summer of 2013 in Dickinson to replace our existing facility. We have an occupational health clinic, a primary care clinic and a walk-in clinic in Minot, about 100 miles north of Bismarck. The University of North Dakota invested $5.4 million in a new 45K square foot

4-story office building across the street from the main hospital in Bismarck which opened in summer 2012. Sanford Health administrative offices will move into the third and fourth floors to free up additional office space in the hospital.

We have been consistently named a Top 100 Hospital in the nation. Our comprehensive care includes emergency air transport, neonatal and pediatric intensive care, transplant services and specialty centers in children’s care, heart, cancer, neuroscience, sports medicine, and women’s health. The Sanford organization serves more than one million patients and 220,000 health plan members across 250,000 square miles. 

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care 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 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  

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  

Giving It All Away: The Life & Philanthropy of Denny Sanford

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/  

Sanford World Clinics:  

Sanford Health started the Sanford World Clinic initiative in 2007 to provide permanent health care services for children. Sanford World Clinic is always expanding its scope of services to meet the unique needs of the areas we serve. Broader primary care services, regenerative medicine, specialized procedures, weight loss programs, diabetes research and clinic education are just a few of the specializations developed to serve populations around the world. 

Sanford Health now has clinics in 8 additional counties, besides the US. These include China, Costa Rica, Germany, Ghana, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa & Vietnam.  

https://www.sanfordworldclinic.org/locations-china/  

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