The nation’s largest rural healthcare provider opened a new state-of-the-art training center on Tuesday as part of an initiative to prepare workers to deliver modern, transformative care.
Sanford Health’s new Virtual Care Center in Sioux Falls, SD, is aimed at upskilling and reskilling clinicians by taking a tech-forward approach to care delivery in skilled nursing facilities, hospitals, clinics and other buildings across the conglomerate’s ecosystem.
Sanford Health operates 113 skilled nursing facilities and more than 160 senior care facilities under its Good Samaritan Society service line, as well as 45 medical centers. The nonprofit system has more than 45,000 employees.
“Our Virtual Care Center has several different spaces. It houses our operations team, which is essential for us to [use] some digital modalities, including telemedicine and remote monitoring. We also have an Education Institute where we are teaching young nurses, doctors and residents about digital techniques,” Dave Newman, chief medical officer of virtual care at Sanford, told McKnight’s Long-Term Care News. “We are teaching ‘webside’ manners instead of bedside manners.”