“Hello, Denny’s.”
February 10th, 2007 by 
Alica
T. Denny Sanford has given $400,000 million to Sioux Valley Hospital, so now the hospital can afford to go nationwide, increase research and build a children’s hospital. And hospital officials are excited about getting started on all the changes.
They even immediately changed the name of the hospital to Sanford. A new sign is out in front already. It still has the familiar heart and chevron, but the name underneath is different.
In a recent Argus Leader story, Andy Wentzy, who works in strategic planning for systems and marketing at Sanford, said signs on the health system’s hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and other holdings will be updated in the next year, “based on traffic counts and such things.”
Boy, I’d hate to be the last clinic to get the new sign. How embarrassing would that be?
I’m going to bet the Sioux Valley clinic in Brandon will be one of the first to get new signs. What do you think?
Most of the changes in the Sanford health system will occur in Sioux Falls in the coming years, but Brandon is close enough that we’ll probably see some changes in our town as well. What changes do you predict, or would like to see?
Posted in Uncategorized | 
February 10th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Correction: Didn’t he give $400 million - not $400,000 million?
My question is who’s paying for the name change and does any of that money go into all the new signs, letterhead, advertising, marketing materials and such? That’s gotta be a sizable chunk of money to do that.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
T Sanford wanted his name in Minnesota but he didn’t have enought money. Who know’s what
Krabbenhoft did to get that money and is this only part of the gift?
What a great team
1.Care that is over priced.
2 High interest Credit card to pay for it.