Becker's Healthcare January 2, 2025
Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health and Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System have officially merged into a nonprofit integrated system and will operate as Sanford Health.
The parties signed a nonbinding agreement in early July and an affiliation to combine in late October.
The merger will comprise a 56-hospital system, 4,500 providers, around 56,000 employees, two fully integrated health plans, research institutions and specialty pharmacies, according to a Jan. 1 news release.
“We are thrilled to welcome 13,000 new employees from Marshfield Clinic Health System to our Sanford family and look forward to embracing all of the new possibilities that lie ahead,” Bill Gassen, president and CEO of Sanford Health, said in the release.
Each party’s health plans, Sanford Health...