As a nonprofit health care system, we know that philanthropy is the bridge between today’s success and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Here, your generosity is at work in extraordinary ways in every community we serve — improving patient outcomes, ensuring staff remain on the leading-edge of care, and enabling us to move discoveries from the lab to the bedside faster than ever before.

Thanks to those who GIVE FOR GOOD, we continue to work toward our vision to improve the human condition for every one, at every stage of life, through exceptional care, spiritual enrichment, innovation and discovery.

• We provided care to 1,506,536 patients.
• 95 principal investigators pioneered new breakthroughs by leading more than 400 research studies.
• 3,673 patients participated in clinical trials, accelerating new treatments, and new solutions.
• We trained the next generation of doctors, nurses and researchers by hosting more than 8,000 students in clinical, nursing and lab rotations, internships and more.
• We provided a place of belonging, faith and love for nearly 11,000 senior residents each day through the Good Samaritan Society.

Generosity helps us care for patients today, and fuels innovation and discovery to accelerate better treatments for tomorrow. 100% of every dollar raised through the Sanford Health Foundation directly supports our efforts to provide access to world-class health care across America’s heartland.

Over the last year, your kindness made a difference in countless ways. In our 2023 Annual Report, we celebrate how philanthropy is impacting care for children, cancer patients and those with behavioral health conditions throughout the communities we serve.

Together, we raised $5 million for Sanford Children’s in 2023 — philanthropic support that fuels everything from staff education and support for families, to patient care services, to leading-edge technology like GlideScopes, life-saving video larygoscopy machine that allows us to better care for delicate NICU patients who require intubation.

• Your help powers vital services like Child Life, social work, music therapy and more — all of which are provided at no cost to families.
• Your generosity fuels leading-edge equipment like Giraffe OmniBeds for NICU patients and other life-saving technology such as pediatric ventilators, ultrasound machines, resuscitators and more.
• Your support helps us provide assistance for families to help with treatment-related costs not covered by insurance and supports ongoing education, ensuring our staff remain on the forefront of care.

Thanks to you, we’re fueling breakthroughs in research, we’re accelerating new treatment innovations through clinical trials, and we’re advancing important programming to help patients and families navigate some of life’s most challenging journeys.

• Your help powers vital services like adult and pediatric nurse navigation, survivorship programming, healing arts and massage therapy — all of which are never billed to patients.
• Your generosity fuels leading-edge equipment like ultrasound machinery, bone marrow transplant technology, chemotherapy recliners and more.
• Your support helps us provide assistance for treatment-related costs not covered by insurance, complimentary wigs and head coverings for chemotherapy patients and more.

Patients rely on the Edith Sanford Breast Center for compassionate, personalized care, close to home. From prevention and screenings to diagnosis, treatment and wrap-around efforts like our Nurse Navigator program, we’re bringing health, hope and healing to those with breast cancer.

• Your help powers new insights and new breakthroughs in breast cancer research, provides support for clinical trial patient care costs not covered by insurance and more.
• Your generosity is improving access to life-saving screenings and fueling leading-edge equipment like 3D mammography machines, leading to faster and more accurate diagnoses for more women, no matter where they live.
• Your support ensures staff remain on the forefront of breast cancer care through advanced training, and helps us provide vital support services such as complimentary wigs and head coverings for chemotherapy patients, nurse navigation, survivorship programming and more.

Together, we raised money to help address the growing behavioral health needs of our communities. Thanks to philanthropy, we’re training more behavioral health professionals for the workforce, and we’re advancing efforts to provide greater access to care. We’re also introducing new and innovative solutions like BeHEARD for Educators in North and South Dakota, an initiative fueled by support from First International Bank & Trust that provides teachers and educators with resources to help identify teens who may be struggling with behavioral health issues.

• Your help is powering innovative partnerships to train tomorrow’s clinical psychologists, integrated health therapists, social workers, counselors and behavioral health technicians.
• Your generosity is helping to enhance care by integrating more behavioral health therapists into primary care clinics.
• Your support is fueling research and analysis to identify patients who may be at risk for adverse behavioral health outcomes, allowing us to develop proactive outreach and care strategies.