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FARGO, N.D. – For kids at Sanford Children’s Hospital in Fargo, an injury or illness can mean days, weeks or months in the hospital. Everything changes for not only that child, but also their family. Normalcy falls to the wayside as parents and siblings adjust to accommodate the child in need. Finding normalcy with dinnertime […]

The North Dakota Department of Transportation recently approved a Peace Garden State Sanford Children’s license plate. Each plate costs $25, with $15 of the fee coming back to the Sanford Health Foundation to benefit Sanford Children’s in Bismarck and Fargo, North Dakota. No matter what brings children and families through the doors, philanthropy helps make […]

While a cesarean section is a valuable tool for delivery in certain circumstances, the rate of C-sections in the U.S. is significantly higher than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization and American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists prefer. WHO considers the ideal rate for C-sections to be 10 to 15 percent. […]

Nine genetic traits contribute to how kids interact with the world

“Art projects help to give patients a sense of purpose for their time spent during treatment and control over creating something beautiful."

Symptoms, treatment, and why it’s called the ‘kissing disease’

"The stories they told and wrote were brave, were honest, were heartbreaking and were real, so incredibly real."

The new year brings a lot of firsts. One of the most exciting each year is the first babies born at Sanford Health. Take a look at the newest tiny patients in each region: Bemidji We were still waiting on the first baby of the new year in Bemidji at the time this article was posted. […]

BISMARCK, N.D. — Ben and Mandy Houdek, of Bismarck, proved to be good predictors of boy names when their identical twins were born in January 2016. “The beauty about having twins is that my husband and I each got to pick a name,” said Mandy Houdek. “My husband picked Greyson and I picked Jaxon.” Like many parents, […]

Parents of babies born at Sanford Health hospitals in 2017 chose Emma for girls and Jackson or Jaxon for boys more than any other names. Emma was third in 2016, while Jackson or its variations didn’t rank in the top five last year, when William and Harper topped the list. The top five Sanford Health […]