Becker's Healthcare July 10, 2024
Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health and Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System have signed a nonbinding agreement to merge into a 56-hospital system with more than 56,000 employees, including 4,300 providers.
The proposed transaction would combine two physician-driven health systems to include 271 clinic locations, multiple specialty pharmacies, research institutions and two fully integrated health plans — Sanford Health Plan and Security Health Plan — serving more than 425,000 members.
“We are who we are today because of combinations with care delivery organizations in rural communities across America’s heartland,” Sanford Health President and CEO Bill Gassen said in a July 10 news release. “These opportunities have allowed us to follow through on our promise to deliver world-class health care...