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.
Sanford Children’s Hospital is a $60 million, three story, 120-bed facility that opened in 2009, as the only free-standing Children’s Hospital to service the entire state of South Dakota, as well as patients in southwestern Minnesota, northwestern Iowa, and parts of North Dakota.
When you enter the Children’s Hospital, known as “The Castle of Care,” you step into an open airy atrium. There is a reception desk that also serves as a security check point. Any patient, or family member that goes up into The Castle, must check in and receive a color-coded badge that provides access only to the floor where the patient will be. The pediatric surgery clinic is located on the ground floor, around the corner from the reception desk, and is in one of five hallways, where all the subspecialists have clinic. You will find your clinic space spacious and up to date. We have separate waiting rooms for our sick and well patients. Also, on the ground floor we have a physician hallway, where all physicians have their offices, to allow easy collaboration between your colleagues.
The first floor is dedicated to our sick children with 24 beds. Our second floor has our outpatient procedures and the 12 bed PICU, with an average daily census of 6. Our entire third floor is dedicated to med/surg, oncology, and NICU overflow. We started ECMO in 2016. We have a team of hospitalists, however, pediatric surgeons run their own inpatient service.
The surgeons have block time every day of the week, except Thursday. The operating rooms have all the equipment and staff you need and are set up exactly the way you want them. For our general surgical patients, we will operate up to the age of 18, and sometimes up to 21.
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.
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 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/
