It manages multiple ground ambulance services across North Dakota, Minnesota and South Dakota with both fixed wing and rotorcraft air ambulances in Bemidji, Bismarck, Dickinson, Fargo or Sioux Falls[5] In January 2025, it was announced that the institution had merged its operations with those of Marshfield Clinic Health System.[16] Medcenter One offered nine clinics, three long-term care facilities, and multiple hospital affiliations, with its primary campus designated as a Level II trauma center.In January 2022, Sanford reported the sale of Profile to Ten Oaks a North Carolina–based family office investment firm.[21] The merger would make Sanford Health a subsidiary of Intermountain Healthcare with the resulting system consisting of 70 hospitals with 89,000 employees.[22] In early December, the merger was postponed indefinitely after Bill Gassen abruptly replaced Sanford Health CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft after he made anti-mask statements.[36] In January 2018, it was announced that Sanford would establish World Clinics in Costa Rica, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Vietnam and expand its presence in China and Ghana.[42] Sanford Medical Center Fargo includes a level II pediatric trauma center as well as a level IV neonatal intensive care unit[43] The Sanford Fieldhouse in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, houses 85,000 square feet of indoor sports fields.North Dakota State University opened the $50 million Sanford Health Athletic Complex in November 2016.An extension and renovation of the former Bison Sports Arena, construction began in April 2014 and lasted 2 ½ years.The SHAC (pronounced "shack") houses the NDSU athletic department offices, equipment room, sports medicine, strength and conditioning, and the Bison Ticket Office.Over time, these hospitals were either bought out or sold their shares in the ambulance, leading to full ownership by MeritCare and, eventually, Sanford Health.[51][52] Sanford is a major sponsor of the Summit League, an NCAA Division I athletic conference whose membership now includes all of the four largest universities in the Dakotas plus one in Nebraska.Also in that year, regional media reported that Sanford-tied boosters of Augustana University, also located in Sioux Falls, were making a serious attempt to move the school's athletic program from NCAA Division II to the Summit League.[58] In 2017 Sanford Health bought a restaurant named Beef ‘O’ Brady’s, located on its Sioux Falls Sports Complex.
View of the northern face of Sanford Medical Center Fargo
Sanford Children's Hospital
Sanford Health Athletic Complex as seen from the north.
Sign outside Sanford Athletic Park in Fargo
Sanford EMS Unit 6784 arriving at the Mary Brigh Building in Rochester MN
Sanford Ambulance unit 6784 and Jamestown Ambulance unit 6357