Company Profile

Company Overview

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 $11.2 billion organization has 53,000 employees and serves over 2 million patients and nearly 425,000 health plan members across the upper Midwest including South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The integrated nonprofit health system includes a network of 56 hospitals, 288 clinic locations, 147 senior care communities, 4,000 physicians and advanced practice providers. The organization’s transformational virtual care initiative brings patients closer to care with access to 78 specialties across 320,000 square miles.

Sanford Research’s mission is rooted in Sanford Health’s long-standing commitment to care, comfort, and cure. The research enterprise includes nationally competitive Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBREs) in cancer, pediatrics, and eating disorders; robust affiliation with a number of in clinical research program including NCI Connect or NCOR, extensive technical core facilities to support our scientist in genomics, advanced imaging, proteomics, and translational platforms; an accredited AAALAC animal research center and AAHRPP accredited human subject research program; and one of the largest clinical research footprints in the rural United States.

Sanford Research integrates:
• Biomedical discovery focused on cancer biology, pediatrics, rare diseases, and cellular/molecular mechanisms of disease.
• Translational research supported by the Sanford BioBank, population genetics resources, disease-specific registries, and precision-medicine biorepositories.
• Clinical research with strong early-phase capabilities and a systemwide commitment to decentralizing clinical trials.
• Biobehavioral and mental health research, including nationally recognized programs in eating disorders, obesity and bariatric surgery.
• Population health & epidemiology, precision health, and multispecialty clinical trials through MCRI.