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Sanford Health to open new Children’s Safety Store

The store is located inside Sanford Children's Southwest Clinic on 13th Avenue South in Fargo

December 31, 2020

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FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Sanford Health is opening a new Children’s Safety Store to help prevent childhood injuries across Fargo-Moorhead. The center opens January 4th and will educate parents on how to create a safe environment for their children. Items like bike helmets, car seats and life jackets are available at cost, which makes them more affordable than ones sold…

Sanford Health updates on COVID-19 vaccine distribution

The major health system talked over a Zoom call

December 22, 2020

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FARGO, N.D.- Sanford Health is giving us new details on the COVID-19 vaccine. Sanford says it will continue to see rollouts of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines through the end of the month and into the new year. Healthcare workers are still being vaccinated as the first part of its plan. Out of the health care system’s almost 10,000 employees,…

Sanford Health and Essentia Health receive thank you cards from the community

United Way Cass Clay launched its High Fives for Healthcare Heroes campaign for people to write a card to healthcare workers.

December 16, 2020

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FARGO, N.D.- United Way of Cass Clay delivers cards sent by community members to healthcare workers from Sanford Health and Essentia Health to say thank you to for all they do. Kayla Jossund has been working as a registered nurse at Essentia Health for two years. She says when COVID-19 first hit, a lot of uncertainty filled the hospitals because…

Sanford Health To Give Health Workers COVID-19 Vaccine Monday Afternoon

December 13, 2020

TJ Nelson,

FARGO, N.D. — (KFGO) Sanford Heath announced Sunday night that they are planning to administer their first COVID vaccinations Monday afternoon. According to the press release; if the shipment arrived as scheduled Monday morning they will give the very first COVID-19 vaccinations to frontline health care workers. The will happen at both Sanford Health Fargo and Sanford Health Bismarck around 1…

Sanford Health thanks military nurses with challenge coins

The coins symbolize the efforts of military personnel lending their support to hospitals during the pandemic

December 11, 2020

Aaron Walling,

FARGO, N.D. — Military nurses who are deployed to help out throughout local hospitals are thanked for their services at Sanford Health. The military nurses were gifted challenge coins as a sign of appreciation for their efforts in working the front lines in such trying times. On the front side of the coin there is a symbol of the Lorraine…

Sanford talks its role in COVID-19 vaccine distribution

The COVID vaccine is coming soon, and Sanford is getting prepared to handle it

November 26, 2020

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FARGO, N.D. — Sanford Health is working hard to prepare its hospitals and clinics for the COVID-19 vaccine. Sanford has been in contact with governments across the states to make sure the facilities are ready to handle the vaccine. It’s still waiting on final details, like how much will be distributed to its locations. Each state will have its own…

Sanford Health announces more hospital beds & infusion center

Sanford talks progress it has made in fight against COVID-19

November 24, 2020

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FARGO, N.D.- Sanford Health is announcing new developments to help with North Dakota’s high hospital capacity problem. The health giant says it has opened 14 new hospital beds in Fargo. This makes a total of 172 beds it has added since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March. By December 1, it will add another 21 beds. Sanford has…

Sanford CEO says he had virus, but won’t wear mask

November 20, 2020

Jim Monk,

FARGO (KVRR) – Sanford Health has released a statement following an email in which CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft wrote to Sanford employees that wearing a mask for COVID-19 “would be merely for show,” Krabbenhoft told employees that he has recovered from COVID-19 and is back in the office without a mask. Krabbenhoft, said in an email Wednesday that he believes he’s…

Two men shot & wounded overnight

Fargo Police officers respond twice to same location after multiple reports

November 15, 2020

Aaron Walling,

FARGO, N.D. — Fargo police respond to two reports of gunshots in the same area just hours apart. Both reports were in the 1000 block of 16th street North. Around 3:35 this morning, officers found a wounded man with non life threatening injuries. He was taken to a local hospital. Three hours later, officers responded to the second report of…

Pandemic puts strain on local hospitals as they reach full capacity

"We are having very high case numbers both in the hospital and in the community and we continue to rise exponentially."

November 13, 2020

Aaron Walling,

FARGO, N.D. – Scenes like medical professionals working to save lives in the middle of a pandemic are happening every day in our community “We are not doing well here in North Dakota. We are having very high case numbers both in the hospital and in the community and we continue to rise exponentially,” Sanford Medical Director for Infection Prevention and…