Sanford Health

Programs: Sanford usd medical center is the largest tertiary medical facility in the region providing a variety of healthcare services, including centers of excellence in the following areas: heart and vascular, children's, cancer, neuroscience, trauma, orthopedics, and women's, which supports our patient centered approach to care. Sanford's new children's hospital opened in march of 2009. This castle of care serves the healthcare needs of the pediatric patients in south dakota, north dakota, minnesota, iowa, and nebraska locally; as well as through our world clinics in duncan, oklahoma and others that will open in the near future. Our model of care focuses on providing excellence in clinical services, advocacy, research and education. The team of over 40 pediatric subspecialty trained physicians, 16 general pediatricians and more than 150 family medicine physicians work side by side with over 350 specially trained pediatric staff to provide the most comprehensive healthcare to children and their families in our region. Sanford children's hospital is the first children's hospital in the united states to install a new lightspeed vct xte console low dose ct scanner with reconstruction technique that can lower radiation dosage up to 40% which is a significant reduction in radiation exposure for our pediatric population. The new state of the art heart hospital will open early in 2012. The new facility will include 58 beds, cardiovascular operating rooms, cath labs, clinic and outpatient services. Our goal is to make care more easily accessible to our patients by providing services at one location as well as provide all other aspects of tertiary care through a connected medical center. Heart and vascular screenings are offered to our consumers at a very affordable cost. Sanford participates in a statewide initiative called take heart south dakota, which is a new program designed to increase survival rates of sudden cardiac arrest. Sanford medical center achieved chest pain accreditation in 2009. Sanford's stroke certification neurology unit offers services that include a rapid response team and a growing stroke network. Through a grant, sanford's neurology team was awarded to participate in the adam williams initiative designed to improve the care and outcomes for patients with traumatic brain injury, and recently developed a stroke share point which is a public site for educational use and a resource for clinicians that work with stroke protocols. Orthopedic and sports medicine at sanford takes a comprehensive approach to orthopedic care which includes multiple subspecialties and synergistic programs such as the center for joint success, wellness center, power center, national institute for athletic health and performance, physical medicine,& rehab, spine center and dedicated orthopedic operating rooms designed to handle orthopedic outpatients in a customer friendly, efficient manner. Sanford's cancer center was chosen as one of only 16 sites to participate in a nationwide pilot for the national cancer institute (nci). One of the main objectives of the nci community cancer centers program is to reduce cancer care disparities among underserved populations through education, prevention, screening, treatment and patient-family support programs. Sanford's cancer center embrace's a "journey of healing" philosophy through art. Smc is an acs verified level ii trauma centre. The emergency department is the largest and most comprehensive emergency facility in the region. Our intensive air program, which includes one helicopter and two fixed wing airplanes have been operating since 1977. Intensive air is a camts accredited flight program and was the first program to have this recognition in the region. Intensive air consists of four specialized transport teams to include adult, pediatric, neonatal and maternal. Sanford's women's offers 21 state of the art ldr rooms where moms can labor, deliver and recover all in one room. Upon recovery mom and baby are brought to the birthplace which is highly secured, family oriented designed facility with 27 rooms for mom, baby and family to recover. Many educational classes are offered throughout mom's pregnancy and into mature womanhood. Sanford women's health plaza is a unique destination designed to provide all women a variety of health options at one location. Smc is accredited by the joint commission and has achieved magnet nursing status from the american nurses credentialing center (ancc).

sanford clinic has 304 physicians representing 70 specialties. Supporting the five centers of excellence of the sanford integrated health system, sanford clinic physicians provide and clinical teams provide services in cancer, women's, heart and vascular, children's, surgery and trauma, neuroscience/orthopedics and primary care. The sanford clinic cancer services include a multidisciplinary team of experts and a pinnacle service in head and neck cancer with nih funded research in hpv. Women's services span the entire clinical services spectrum and integrated medicine services including a medical spa. The physician experts provide urogynecology, reproductive endocrinology, gynecology/oncology, genetic counseling and maternal fetal medicine subspecialty care. Another pinnacle service is developing in this service line - a regional fetal care center which includes diagnostic services and fetal surgery. The heart and vascular service has grown to 14 interventional, invasive, general cardiologists and vascular surgeons. The strong clinical research program and preventive focus with screenings programs all provide the foundation for a new heart hospital set to open early in 2012. Surgical care for the sanford clinic is performed by nine surgeons. Bariatric, trauma and general surgery as well as surgical oncology care, and a strong breast cancer program, gi cancer program, and lung cancer program fall within this area of expertise. General pediatric and subspecialty pediatric physicians support the children's hospital and regional outreach services and national pediatric care. Additional growth continues in neuroscience and orthopedics clinical services, sports medicine, general and subspecialty care.

sanford health network supports community healthcare facilities as they provide care close to home through the 23 hospitals and 12 long term care homes, 18 assisted and congregate living facilities across south dakota, iowa, minnesota, nebraska and north dakota. Sanford health supports a network of owned, leased, managed and associate facilities to ensure that necessary health care services across a broad range of medical and surgical specialties are delivered locally to the broad service area. Sanford health network's commitment to local healthcare delivery is clearly evident in its community-based leadership and local board involvement. Additionally, our technology deployment in the form of our health system's fully integrated clinical and financial information system, called docz, remains a priority. Sanford health network is adding a new hospital in aberdeen, sd and is working on the replacement of several long term care facilities in two communities in south dakota.