Sanford Health has reached an agreement to merge with Minnesota-based North Memorial Health, marking a new move into the Twin Cities market for the Sioux Falls-based health system.
North Memorial is an independent nonprofit health system that has two hospitals in the Twin Cities area: Robbinsdale Hospital, one of five Level 1 trauma and emergency services centers in Minnesota, and Maple Grove Hospital, which serves a fast-growing area of the metro and has the largest birth center in Minnesota.
“North Memorial has had an incredible reputation in the region for years and years,” Sanford Health president and CEO Bill Gassen said. “They are just a very well-respected organization. We’ve been planted in the state of Minnesota providing world-class care for patients for many decades, and this provided great opportunity to come together with an organization that brought complementary capabilities.”…