Sanford Health is an integrated nonprofit health system serving over 2 million patients across the Upper Midwest, including South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. With 55,000 employees - including 4,000 physicians and advanced practice providers - the organization operates 56 hospitals, 288 clinic locations, and 147 senior care facilities, handling 10.6 million outpatient visits, 378,635 emergency department visits, and 259,122 surgeries and procedures annually.
The organisation provides comprehensive clinical services spanning primary and specialty care, emergency medicine, surgical services, and senior care alongside a virtual care initiative offering access to 78 specialties. Designated Centers of Excellence focus on cancer, children's health, heart care, orthopedics and sports medicine, and women's health. Sanford Health also operates as a health insurer with nearly 415,000 plan members and conducts clinical research, with nearly 1,500 active clinical trials and studies underway.
Based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Sanford Health describes itself as the largest rural health system in the United States. As a nonprofit organisation, it operates under the mission to 'care, comfort and cure' and pursues an explicit goal of providing world-class healthcare access across America's heartland.