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Sanford, Avera to Add Hundreds of Jobs
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Fargo, N.D.-based Sanford Health and Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health will each be hiring 300-350 employees this year, according to a Grand Forks Herald news report.
Sanford specifically is looking to fill 250 positions for its new hospital in Aberdeen and another 100 nursing spots in Fargo. Both systems will be adding technical employees to help the organizations move forward in the adoption of electronic health records.
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Striving to meet a need for nurses
Monday, December 28, 2009
A looming national shortage of nurses is prompting the University of South Dakota to look at expanding its two-year associate program to include a four-year bachelor-level degree.
Last week, the state Board of Regents gave USD its blessing to look at expanding its program, in large part because of the regents’ recognition of the need, board executive director Jack Warner said.
“In addition to shortages that are projected, there is also an awareness that many associate degree graduates, if they want upward mobility in their professions, they’re going to need a bachelor degree,” Warner said.
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Hospital CEO says merger could help rural areas
Monday, September 14, 2009
FARGO, N.D.—A merger between North Dakota’s largest hospital and a South Dakota-based health system could create the largest rural health network in the country, the hospital’s chief executive said.
The merger of MeritCare of Fargo and Sanford Health of Sioux Falls, S.D., is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The new health system would serve about 2 million people in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska.
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$500K pledged to better prepare, retain nurses
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Half a million dollars will be invested in West River nurse training programs over the next two years to better prepare and retain new nurses at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
“We can keep putting out nurses, and nurses, and nurses, but if we don’t retain them, we’re spinning our wheels,” said Ellie Brooks, director of the University of South Dakota’s nursing program’s Rapid City campus.
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HUD approves $2.4 million deal for addition to hospital construction project in Hot Springs
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC - August 10, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced a commitment to insure a mortgage loan to Fall River Health Services (FRHS) in Hot Springs, South Dakota, to construct a 10-bed addition to the 15-bed replacement hospital currently under construction. The $2.4 million loan to FRHS, a critical access hospital, is made possible through the Federal Housing Administration’s Section 242 Hospital Mortgage Insurance Program.
In September 2008, HUD issued a $16.7 million mortgage insurance commitment to Fall River Health Services to build a replacement hospital and rural health clinic. The commitment announced today provides for construction of additional beds to accommodate anticipated volume increases in the future. By insuring the mortgage loan, FHA is enabling Fall River Health Services to obtain lower cost financing, saving the hospital almost $800,000 in interest expense over the life of the loan.
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Federal funds aid SDSU graduate nursing program
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
A federal award of nearly $220,000 will enhance the graduate nursing program at South Dakota State University.
The Department of Health and Human Services allocated $219,795 to the College of Nursing for an Advanced Education Nursing Grant, which funds faculty salaries, curriculum consultants and student research assistantships in the doctoral program, according to Sandra Bunkers, head of graduate nursing at SDSU.
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Fargo group wants say in hospital merger talks
Monday, July 13, 2009
FARGO, N.D. - A group of civic and business leaders is urging North Dakota’s MeritCare Health System to give more details a possible merger with South Dakota’s Sanford Health.
Citizens for MeritCare, led by former Fargo Mayor Bruce Furness and former North Dakota first lady Jane Sinner, said it’s worried about reports that a letter of intent between the two groups would be signed in the next two weeks.
“We feel that should not be executed before some other things are done,” Furness said Friday.
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S.D. may be model in health care push
Thursday, July 02, 2009
It’s clear from the skyline of Sioux Falls - where health care fuels much of the economy - that sweeping changes to the nation’s health care landscape could leave an imprint on the city.
On one side of town, a new Sanford Children’s Hospital gleams during the day and blue lights fill the night sky. To the east, cranes tower over Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center, where green lights glow.
As Congress and the White House embark on a monthslong process aimed at reforming the nation’s health care system, the effects of whatever new model emerges could be more pronounced here than in many other American cities, observers say.
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Aberdeen nursing program on probation
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - The nursing program at Presentation College in Aberdeen is on probation because too few graduates in recent years passed a national nurse-licensing exam on the first try.
Linda Burdette, chairwoman of the college nursing department, says the college’s pass rate for the National Council Licensure Exam fell below the state board of nursing’s standards in 2007 and 2008.
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S.D. may be model in health care push
Monday, June 22, 2009
It’s clear from the skyline of Sioux Falls - where health care fuels much of the economy - that sweeping changes to the nation’s health care landscape could leave an imprint on the city.
On one side of town, a new Sanford Children’s Hospital gleams during the day and blue lights fill the night sky. To the east, cranes tower over Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center, where green lights glow.
As Congress and the White House embark on a monthslong process aimed at reforming the nation’s health care system, the effects of whatever new model emerges could be more pronounced here than in many other American cities, observers say.
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