Sanford Health is a voluntary, not-for-profit health care organization. Through its entities, Sanford Health and WoodsEdge, its subsidiary, North Country Housing and other affiliates, the corporation currently provides acute care, long-term and rehabilitative care, congregate housing, home health care and hospice, medical equipment sales and rentals, and medical services.

In the early 1990s, the corporation took a different step in providing health care to the community. The corporation has owned and operated Sanford Health Medical Clinic-Bemidji located in downtown Bemidji, a two-physician and two-nurse practitioner medical practice. Because of an inability to recruit new physicians, the clinic closed in December 2007.