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Every dollar donated across the Fargo region is making a difference for local patients, families and employees. Through philanthropy, lifesaving care is offered close to home at facilities like the Sanford Roger Maris Cancer Center, the Sanford Medical Center and the Sanford Children’s Hospital. We introduced the regions first facility dog, Fox who provides comfort and enhances care for patients at Sanford Children’s Hospital. We’re working to provide a home-like retreat for cancer patients and families through the region’s first-ever center for patient lodging. When it opens in 2026, the Peltier Lodge will provide a home away from home for cancer patients and their families.

Last year, we put $3.5 million in philanthropic gifts to work across the Fargo region. Read more in the 2024 annual report.

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Local Priorities

Philanthropy is an integral part of the care provided at Sanford Health. The Sanford Health Foundation in the Fargo region plays a crucial role in supporting specific programming for patients and staff, upgrading essential equipment, and funding special projects tailored to meet the needs of our communities.

The Peltier Lodge

With your support, we can move forward on construction of the Peltier Lodge, an on-campus lodging facility designed to provide patients and their families with a home away from home during treatment and throughout their outpatient care and monitoring.

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Cancer

Home to North Dakota’s only Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Program, the Sanford Roger Maris Cancer Center has become a regional destination for care. With your help we can expand treatment options, like bone marrow transplant, and enhance services like nurse navigation, art therapy, music therapy, survivorship programs and financial assistance to help cover the costs of lodging, meals and transportation.

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Children

The Sanford Children’s Hospital proudly serves as North Dakota’s only Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. Funds raised stay local to support services and programs like Child Life, school tutoring, and music therapy, provide education and help purchase lifesaving equipment to save and transform lives, close to home.

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Breast Health

Gifts to the Fargo Edith Sanford Breast Center Fund help supplement the costs of lifesaving MRIs and 3D mammograms, supports services like nurse navigation, genetic counseling and survivorship programming at no cost to patients and funds cutting-edge equipment and technology to improve breast cancer detection and treatment.

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Leadership Connection

A region update from Tiffany Lawrence, president & CEO of Sanford Fargo
November 20, 2025

We’ve achieved so much this year, and it’s all thanks to support from friends like you. We completed major projects like the North Dakota Credit Unions for Kids Micropreemie Unit at Sanford Children’s Hospital and Cully’s Cottage, our new play space for pediatric cancer patients inside the Sanford Roger Maris Cancer Center. Our medical center, home to the region’s only Level 1 Trauma Center, was again named the No. 1 hospital in North Dakota by U.S. News & World Report and our oncology program was ranked among the top 100 in the U.S. and the only facility in North Dakota and South Dakota to earn this honor for groundbreaking research, innovative treatments and transformative clinical trials. And, for the first time ever, we received a Magnet designation , the nation’s most prestigious honor for nursing excellence and patient care. These milestones, and countless others, are only possible thanks to your support of our work and our mission to care, comfort and cure. We can’t thank you enough.

2025 has brought so much progress, but there’s more to do to meet the growing and changing needs of our region. Right now, our most pressing need is lodging for cancer patients at the Sanford Roger Maris Cancer Center. Here, nearly 50% of patients travel more than 60 miles to visit us for care and treatment. The Peltier Lodge, our new center for patient lodging, will meet these needs — serving as a home-like retreat for patients and their loved ones during treatment and throughout outpatient care and monitoring.

To all those who have already supported this historic endeavor — thank you! Your support means the world to us. If you have not yet gotten involved, I encourage you to learn more and join our work today. Together, we can bring this priority project across the finish line.

This holiday season — and always — we are grateful for you.

Tiffany Lawrence

Fargo’s Signature Events

Below are a few of the signature events we host in the Fargo region. To see more events in Fargo, visit our calendar.

Miracle Treat DayLearn More

The Roger Maris GalaLearn More

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Cares for Kids RadiothonLearn More

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At Sanford Health, our doctors, researchers and caregivers are working to bring health, hope and healing to more than 1.2 million people across the Upper Midwest. With you on our team, we can accelerate our race to uncover new breakthroughs, develop new treatments and create meaningful programs that support patients and their families.

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