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Sanford Health to host Safe Kids Safety Day, July 29. July 21, 2026 BISMARCK, N.D. - Sanford Health and Safe Kids Bismarck-Mandan are teaming up with local agencies to host a Safety Day July 29 from 1-5 p.m. outside the North Dakota State Capitol grounds. Families are invited to have fun and learn about weather safety, bicycle safety, medication safety, safe sleep and more. A bounce house, face painting, food trucks, bicycle helmet fitting, and an obstacle course are also available to the public. Participating agencies include Safe Kids Bismarck-Mandan, Sanford AirMed, Bismarck Fire and Rescue, Bismarck Police Department, Bismarck Burleigh Public Health, YMCA, Bismarck Sanford Children's Hospital and Child Life Services, Sanford Trauma Services and more. The event is free to the public. MEDIA: Media members wanting to attend the event, please call 701-516-4903. The Sanford Health Bismarck Region provides health care to central and western North Dakota, eastern Montana and northern South Dakota. It includes 26 clinics in Bismarck, Mandan, Minot, Dickinson, Williston and Watford City, as well as a Level II trauma center located in Bismarck. About Sanford Health Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America's heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization has 55,000 employees and serves more than 2 million patients and nearly 415,000 health plan members across the upper Midwest including South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The integrated nonprofit health system includes a network of 58 hospitals, 289 clinic locations, 145 senior care communities, 4,500 physicians and advanced practice providers and 1,100 active clinical trials and studies. The organization's transformational virtual care initiative brings patients closer to care with access to nearly 80 specialties. More than 400 residents and fellows are trained each year through graduate medical education with Sanford Health fully funding and supporting 29 of the 40 available programs. Sanford Health also includes 92 retail pharmacies, including Sanford and Lewis Drug pharmacies with locations in 6 states, and more than 300 pharmacists. Learn more about Sanford Health's commitment to shaping the future of rural health care across the lifespan at sanfordhealth.org or Sanford Health News.

Women's correctional facility opens in Rapid City. Native women remain disproportionately incarcerated on July 20, 2026 New Women's Correctional Facility in Rapid City, SD. A 102,750 square foot complex designed to expand treatment, education, and reentry programs for incarcerated women. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hopa) RAPID CITY - State leaders gathered Friday, July 10 to celebrate the opening of South Dakota's new Women's Correctional Facility, a 102,750 square foot complex designed to expand treatment, education, and reentry programs for incarcerated women. Governor Larry Rhoden led the ribbon cutting alongside correctional officials, local legislators, Rapid City Mayor Jason Salamun, and members of the Rapid City Police Department. "This facility will help us keep South Dakota strong, safe, and free," Rhoden said. He added that the state's investment reflects a commitment to rehabilitation. "We are committed to rehabilitation and recovery, and this new facility will help us better serve the women in our correctional system." The facility includes three 96 bed housing units, each built with space for group treatment and programming. One unit is dedicated entirely to a 96 bed therapeutic community focused on addressing criminal thinking and substance use disorders. A separate 12 bed Mother Infant building allows eligible mothers to remain connected to their newborns while receiving parenting support. The facility opens as South Dakota grapples with the world's highest rate of women's incarceration and long standing disparities that place Native women at the center of the crisis. According to a 2024 report from the Prison Policy Initiative, South Dakota incarcerates women at the highest rate in the world, 338 per 100,000, a disparity that falls disproportionately on Native American women. According to the Department of Corrections' 2024-2025 statistical reports, Native American women make up approximately 63% of the more than 500 women incarcerated in South Dakota, despite Native people comprising only about 8.5% of the state's population. Advocates and lawmakers have called the disparity "alarming," pointing to long standing systemic issues in sentencing, access to treatment, and the impact of drug related offenses. Secretary of Corrections Nick Lamb said substance use remains the primary driver of incarceration. "Ninety seven percent of the women who enter our system have a substance use disorder," Lamb said. "This facility expands our ability to provide treatment, counseling, and life skills to help these women succeed when they return to their communities." For more than a decade, South Dakota was the only state in the nation to make drug ingestion, simply having a controlled substance in one's system, a felony. Before lawmakers reduced the charge to a misdemeanor, 71 women were imprisoned with ingestion as their highest level offense, and DOC data shows that 77% of incarcerated women were serving time for non violent drug crimes, with ingestion trailing closely behind. Because Native women are disproportionately charged with drug related offenses, tribal advocates say the ingestion law created a revolving door. Technical violations, missed appointments, failed UAs, curfew issues, or transportation barriers, remain the number one reason women return to prison. With a 66% recidivism rate among Native women, advocates estimate that well over 100 Native women currently incarcerated are there due to residual effects of the old ingestion law, even if the original felony law has since been downgraded. To strengthen reentry opportunities, the Department of Corrections has partnered with Western Dakota Technical College to offer a one semester Business Hospitality program. DOC is also working with Sanford Health to launch a three week Patient Care Technician program aimed at preparing participants for entry level healthcare roles. DOC officials said transfers from Pierre to the new Rapid City facility will begin next month following staff training. (Contact Ernestine Anunkasan Hopa at [email protected])

Douglas McGhee joins Sanford Health. Douglas McGhee recently posted on LinkedIn that he has joined Sanford Health as vice president of operations-support services for the Marshfield Region. "I'm honored to join an organization committed to advancing rural health care and excited to partner with exceptional teams to strengthen operations and serve our communities," he wrote. Sanford Health's LinkedIn page states: "Sanford Health is the largest rural health system in the U.S. Our organization is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America's heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, we serve more than one million patients and 220,000 health plan members across 250,000 square miles. Our integrated health system has 47 medical centers, 2,800 physicians and advanced practice providers, 170 clinical investigators and research scientists, more than 200 Good Samaritan Society senior care locations, and world clinics in eight countries around the globe. Learn more about our commitment to shaping the future of rural health care at sanfordhealth.org or Sanford Health News." People on the Move. Submit yourself or someone else to be featured in our People on the Move category! Accepted file types: jpg, jpeg, png, Max. file size: 2 MB.