News from MeritCare about issues affecting our region. Read articles from this month or use the search feature below to read articles and news releases from our archive.
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3.9.2010MeritCare Medical Center recently received national recognition for spine surgical excellence. The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association designated MeritCare as a Blue Distinction Center for Spine Surgery (SM).
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3.9.2010MeritCare Children's Walk-In Clinic is inviting families to capture kids on film and share them on Facebook to win the MeritCare Children's Walk-In Video Contest.
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2.18.2010We are very pleased to announce that Judy Green has joined the Sanford Health & MeritCare team as Executive Director of Marketing for Women's services. As executive director of Marketing for Women's services, Judy's role will encompass a combination of public affairs in Fargo-Moorhead and marketing strategy as we develop a comprehensive women's services offering in Fargo-Moorhead and across the Sanford Health-MeritCare System. Judy has been president of the United Way of Cass-Clay County for the past two years. Prior to that she was executive director of the YWCA Cass-Clay. Judy has a distinguished association with our Sanford-MeritCare team as a member of the MeritCare Board of Trustees since 2007.
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2.17.2010Radio Fargo Moorhead stations, Bob (95.1), Mojo (104.7) and Y-94 (93.7) are joining forces once again to raise money during the Cares for Kids Radiothon supporting MeritCare Children's Hospital Feb 18-20.
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2.11.2010New funding by the Belize Healthcare Charitable Trust (BHCT) is accelerating building plans for Sanford Children's Clinic in Belize City, Belize. The BHCT has signed an agreement which donates $2 million Belize dollars ($1 million U.S.) for the construction of the clinic.
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2.11.2010Carrie Simonson, RN, MeritCare Child & Adolescent Maltreatment Services, has taken her expertise in this specialized field of forensic nursing to the next level. Simonson recently became certified as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner – Pediatric (SANE-P).
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2.8.2010Sanford Health-MeritCare and the University of North Dakota Foundation announce a $1.5 million gift to establish the Dr. Roger Gilbertson Endowed Chair of Neurology at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences.
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2.5.2010Chuck Hofius will return to Perham Memorial Hospital and Home (PMHH) - a MeritCare managed hospital - as CEO effective Monday, February 8, 2010.
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2.5.2010A team of four MeritCare medical providers will be leaving at 5 p.m. from Hector International Airport, Fargo, to aid the in Haiti relief effort. The team will work out of Barahona, Dominican Republic, approximately 30 miles from the Haitian border and is expected to stay for one week.
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2.5.2010Feb. 5 is National Wear Red Day. MeritCare Heart Center is celebrating by joining together in this important cause.
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2.4.2010Sanford USD Medical Center and MeritCare medical center both recently received national recognition for hip and knee replacement excellence. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association awarded both medical centers a Blue Distinction Center for Knee and Hip Replacement (SM). Sanford USD Medical Center was also designated as a Blue Distinction Center for Spine Surgery (SM).
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2.3.2010People in North Dakota will soon have another health insurance option. The North Dakota Insurance Department announced this morning it has given Sanford Health Plan a certificate of authority to provide health insurance in the state.
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