Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Orthopedics and Sports Medicine has expanded its facilities and team throughout 2022, adding a spine center, an orthopedic hospital and more.
Six updates from Sanford in 2022:
1. Sanford Health opened an acute spine center at Sanford Bemidji (Minn.) Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Center.
2. Sanford Health broke ground on a $161 million orthopedic hospital that will open in 2025.
3. Sanford's Fargo, N.D., location treated 40 spine surgery patients from Canada.
4. The Van Demark Building at the Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls added two new floors totaling 36,550 square feet in space, according to a Dec. 7 report from Sioux Falls Business.
5. Sanford Health began offering EOS imaging, a low-dose, walk-in X-ray system.
6. Three new physicians joined the team this year, including hand surgeon Elizabeth Helsper, MD; foot and ankle surgeon Alan Yan, MD; and total joint and musculoskeletal oncologist Mark Heidenreich, MD.