The area’s biggest name in health care just got smaller as Sanford Health & MeritCare simplified its name to Sanford Health.
The name change, celebrated Tuesday, is intended to help unify an organization with $2.25 billion in annual revenues and 20,000 employees serving parts of five states.
The health system’s namesake benefactor, Denny Sanford, was on hand [...]

After months of discussion and community input, West Fargo’s chamber of commerce will officially join the Fargo-Moorhead chamber on Sept. 1.
Both chambers offered their members a chance to vote recently on whether the merger should take place.
The results showed 98 percent of ballots cast in Fargo-Moorhead were in favor of the merger, as were 72 [...]

 Age, ancestry and living arrangements of residents in the Fargo-Moorhead area shifted drastically from 2000 to 2008, as did factors including poverty levels, obesity and binge drinking.
According to a report by the North Dakota State Data Center, changing population demographics in Cass and Clay counties will be strong indicators of needed policy adjustments in the [...]

Performance to be new Sanford facility’s focus
Sanford Health-MeritCare plans to build a new center in southwest Fargo dedicated to helping athletes boost their performance.
By: Patrick Springer, INFORUM
 The Sanford “power bubble” is a 21,000-square-foot facility near the football stadium for the University of Sioux Falls in South Dakota. Special to The Forum
Sanford Health-MeritCare plans to build [...]

A large parcel of land awaiting development in southwest Fargo will be the focal point of Sanford Health-MeritCare’s future expanded metro medical services.
Executives of the health system later this month will present their concepts for a major new medical center at Agassiz Crossing, described earlier as a $250 million to $350 million facility.
Following ongoing planning [...]