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Why Sanford Health for Research?
Sanford USD Medical Center is a 500-bed tertiary care regional medical center and the primary teaching hospital for the Sanford School of Medicine. It also features:

• 400 physician multi-specialty practice for Sanford
• 1.25 million outpatient and 50,000 inpatient visits per year
• Stable, compliant population base for clinical research
• Electronic medical record and clinical information system
• Multi-generational families for clinical studies
• Accommodating regulatory environment
• Comprehensive research infrastructure
• Ongoing in-house research
• The Sanford Project
• Global presence in clinical and research relationships

Why Sioux Falls, South Dakota?

• #2 Lowest Cost Bio Med Locations in North America as rated by the Boyd Companies
• #1 on Forbes list of Small Places for Business and Careers
• #45 on CNN/Money’s list of Top 100 Best Places to Live and Launch a Business
• #1 in Small Business Survival by Foundation List of Entrepreneurial Friendliness and Business Climate
• #1 for Best Corporate Business Climate—Pollina Corporate Real Estate
• #1 in Milken Institute lowest cost of Doing Business Index
• #2 State ranking for technology in education
• #7 State ranking for inbound population migration