Overview
Growth
We are in the midst of significant growth as we strive to further develop our academic research focus and further expand our clinical and educational programs.
Sanford Children's Hospital
Our new children's hospital includes 146 beds, 58 neonatal intensive care beds and 12 pediatric intensive care beds. The hospital also is home to Sanford Children's Specialty Clinic. A new pediatric hospitalist program has been developed to care for children from out of the region who require hospitalization, to provide general pediatric consultation to any child hospitalized at our facility and to provide the majority of teaching of medical students and residents during pediatric rotations.
Pediatrics Residency
We've applied to begin a residency program in pediatrics in July 2010. The program will admit six residents per year in a three-year program and employ a fourth-year chief resident.
Research
The Sanford Children's Research Center has been established with two campuses - one in La Jolla, CA, at the Burham Institute for Medical Research and the other in Sioux Falls. Dr. David Pearce, a neuroscientist whose research in Juvenile Batten Disease and other neurogenerative disorders of childhood, has been recruited to lead the Sioux Falls campus. Basic research programs in the neurosciences, cancer biology, development cardiology and genetics are planned. Funding is coming from an endowment to Sanford health by T. Denny Sanford. The focus of the Sanford Project, Sanford's signature research effort, is to find a cure for Type One diabetes.