Hospital

Sanford USD Medical Center is the largest medical facility in the region providing a variety of healthcare services. Sanford USD Medical Center has Centers of Excellence in the following areas: heart & vascular, children's, cancer, neuroscience, trauma, orthopedics, and women's.

As a comprehensive medical center, we also offer a variety of healthcare services including stroke, neonatal intensive care, air transport, family health, transplant, sports medicine and wellness.

Sanford USD Medical Center is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations and had the first CAAMS (Commission on Accreditation of Air Medical Services) accredited flight program in the state of South Dakota.

Hospital Facts

Sanford USD Medical Center is a community-owned hospital and has:

Named "One of America's Best" by US News & World Report in 2006
Chosen one of the Nation's Top Hospitals for 2006 by National Research Corporation
Recognized as one of the Top 100 Hospitals by Thomson
Achieved Magnet level status from the American Nurses Credentialing Center
Nearly 4,000 employees
487 licensed beds
One helicopter and two fixed-wing aircrafts
Had nearly 30,000 patients transported with the air flight program since its formation in 1977
Over 24,000 annual admissions
Over 3,000 babies born in 2006
Over 32,000 Emergency Room responses a year
System accreditation from the Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)