Sanford Sheldon recognized for emergency timeliness

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Jon Berg
Sanford Health Media Relations
605-366-2432 / Jon.Berg@sanfordhealth.org

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. —Sanford Sheldon Medical Center recently received the Emergency Timeliness award on the Women’s Choice Award 2024 Best Hospitals Award Report.

“As a rural emergency department, we see patients from many different communities who rely on the timeliness of the care our team provides to patients in times of emergency,” said Rick Nordahl, administrator of Sanford Sheldon Medical Center. “The dedicated and talented team we have in our emergency department provides us with the ability to deliver exceptional emergency care to rural communities.”

The Emergency Timeliness award is given to emergency departments that outperform national average measures for time spent in the emergency department before leaving as well as the percentage of patients who left the emergency department before being seen. In the report, zero patients were identified as leaving the emergency department before being seen.

For more information about Sanford Health in Sheldon, visit SanfordHealth.org keyword: Sheldon. 

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Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization serves 1.4 million patients and nearly 200,000 health plan members across 250,000 square miles. The integrated health system has 45 hospitals, 211 clinic locations, more than 160 Good Samaritan Society senior living centers, 2,900 Sanford physicians and advanced practice providers, 540 active clinical trials, and nine world clinic locations around the globe. Learn more about Sanford Health’s commitment to shaping the future of rural health care across the lifespan at sanfordhealth.org or Sanford Health News.