Sanford Center Announces Projects

Editor Bernie Hunhoff took these photos at the Sanford Center campus in Sioux Falls last Friday.

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Four television stations and 500 community and state leaders gathered on the Sanford Center campus in northeast Sioux Falls on Friday (Aug. 19) for announcements on new projects to be undertaken by the health care system.
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Kelby Krabbenhoft, president and CEO of Sanford, announced plans for a 371-room, $360 million hospital and a Roger Maris Cancer Center in Fargo, N.D., as well as a $100 million breast cancer center to be called the Edith Sanford Center. The namesake was the mother of Sanford philanthropist T. Denny Sanford, who died of breast cancer when he was still a young child.
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T. Denny Sanford was present at the gathering to meet with local leaders and Sanford staff and board members. The Sioux Falls banker contributed $400 million to the health care system several years ago, and has since "doubled down" according to Krabbenhoft, who called him "the mountain." He said there were concerns that the Sanford money might dry up donations, but instead it has been contagious. Twenty people seated near Sanford at the big gathering have given a million dollars or more for projects.
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A sculpture of a globe at Sanford's research and administrative center is symbolic of an international reach. New pediatric clinics were announced last week for Israel, Ghana and Mexico.
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Sanford may have 100 clinics to serve children in poor and distressed areas of the world within five years. A quote engraved at the research center illustrates the sharp focus of the Sanford mission.
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Sanford Health has 20,000 employees and serves two million people, and most are roughly within or very near the old boundaries of Dakota Territory — meaning the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa. The system's annual budget is now $2.6 billion a year, making it one of the most important economic engines for the region.