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Like many players in Sunday’s Super Bowl, rookie Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Nate Gerry will have friends and family cheering in the stands of U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, including several who work for Sanford Health. Gerry’s family will head to Minneapolis Friday for a weekend stay at the team’s hotel. In addition to Super Bowl […]

Nathan Peterson loves policy. And, after you listen to him talk about it for a while, you start to love it a little, too. He’s rapid-fire and direct, the words spilling out so quickly that you can see why he once dreamed of going to law school. Listen a little longer and you’ll understand why […]

Abdu Frederickson, a nursing assistant at Sanford Health, will travel more than 7,500 miles next week from the Fargo-Moorhead area to Bangladesh to help at a clinic in a refugee camp. He along with others, including Sanford Health physician Mohamed Sanaullah, will make the Jan. 25 trip to help Rohingya refugees who have been driven […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Harvard law graduate and NFL coach Daron K. Roberts gave local leaders valuable insight about transitioning, rejection, complacency and intentions on Thursday during a speech at the Washington Pavilion. “Let’s shape the game we play; not the game we find,” he said. Roberts said so many times in life people get into routines […]

FRISCO, Texas — North Dakota State University, one of the schools for which Sanford Health is the exclusive sports medicine provider, won the FCS national championship game Saturday 17-13 over James Madison. The win over the top-seeded defending champion was the sixth title in seven years for the No. 2-seeded Bison and the Fargo, North […]

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. […]

Sanford Medical Center Vermillion welcomed its first baby of 2018. Paul Lucas was born on Jan. 1, 2018 at 7:02 a.m. to Nicholas and Jacki Waldner of Elk Point, South Dakota.  Paul weighs eight pounds, eight ounces and is 21 ½ inches long. Proud parents, Nicholas and Jacki and big brother Benjamin were very excited […]

FARGO, N.D. – Construction has begun on a new Courtyard by Marriott located at the interchange of Veterans Boulevard and Interstate 94 to the west of the new Sanford Medical Center. Projected to open in September 2018, the nearly $15 million hotel project will have four stories and span more than 66,000 square feet. It will […]

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 […]

Post-offer employment testing, or POET, includes verifying a new employee can meet the physical demands of a job. Companies conditionally offer employment and potential new employees are evaluated to make sure they can meet the job’s essential functions. A major prong of POET is safety. Making sure the right person can safely perform the right […]