Innovis Health, located in Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Cass County. In 2010, its population was 105,549, and it had an estimated metropolitan population of 208,777...

, is an integrated healthcare system consisting of an 104-bed hospital and 21-clinic system serving eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. The hospital, located in south Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Cass County. In 2010, its population was 105,549, and it had an estimated metropolitan population of 208,777...

, has been designated as a Level II trauma center.

History

Innovis Health was formerly known as Dakota Clinic / Innovis Health until the two integrated to form a not-for-profit organization. On November 27, 2007, Innovis Health announced a merger with Essentia Health, an affiliation of the Benedictine Health System and SMDC Health System, a multi-state, not-for-profit healthcare system headquartered in Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

. On September 1, 2010; Innovis announced it would be changing its name to Essentia Health. "All of Essentia’s 17 hospitals, 62 clinics and 750 physicians will now be named under the Essentia umbrella to create a single, more streamlined organization, said officials. According to reports, the goal of the changes is to create efficiency and reduce health care costs."