Sanford Sheldon Medical Center Recognized For Emergency Timeliness

Sanford Sheldon Medical Center recently received the Emergency Timeliness award on the Women’s Choice Award 2024 Best Hospitals Award Report.  

“As a rural emergency department, we see patients from many different communities who rely on the timeliness of the care our team provides to patients in times of emergency,” said Rick Nordahl, administrator of Sanford Sheldon Medical Center. “The dedicated and talented team we have in our emergency department provides us with the ability to deliver exceptional emergency care to rural communities.”  

The Emergency Timeliness award is given to emergency departments that outperform national average measures for time spent in the emergency department before leaving as well as the percentage of patients who left the emergency department before being seen. In the report, zero patients were identified as leaving the emergency department before being seen. 

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