SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The merger between Sanford Health, based in Sioux Falls, and the Marshfield Clinic Health System based in Wisconsin, is now complete.
The two organizations now make up a single non-profit health system and will operate as Sanford Health, according to an announcement from Sanford.
“Today’s historic milestone paves the way for us to advance world-class care across the rural Midwest and accelerate vital investments in the communities we have the privilege of serving,” said Bill Gassen, president and CEO of Sanford Health. “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.”
Brian Hoerneman, the president and CEO of Marshfield, will stay in the position of regional president and CEO of the Marshfield region.
The announcement says the integration process is underway. Marshfield served Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan. Together with Sanford, the system now covers 56 hospitals, 270+ clinics and more than 4,500 providers.
This completed merger comes more than a year after Sanford’s last attempt at expansion petered out when talks with Minnesota-based Fairview Health came to an end. At the time, Gassen said the merger did not have the support of “certain Minnesota stakeholders.”
