Pros
The staff are great. Doctors, nurses, all professional staff, and even the custodians, cooks, and maintenance people are great, work hard. Unfortunately, they aren't valued by the non-doctors who run this "non-profit" business.
Cons
Where to start? At Sanford, it's a "my way or the highway" attitude from the C-suite. No doctors are making decisions about running this business. It has a bloated administration. Can you count how many VPs they have?? It has to be over 50...there are 6 in public relations alone. All of these people spend 100% of their day dreaming up new rules for the doctors and nurses to comply with. MDs and nurses are totally beleaguered. Also, how can they possibly be considered a "non-profit?" They just spent millions of dollars on lawyers and lobbyists in Pierre, trying to get a law passed that says that they will not have to comply with the "any willing provider" law, passed in our state last year, even though every other insurance company in the state is complying. Arrogance and too much money to spend will be their undoing.