Sanford Health Selects TeamBuilder to Advance Ambulatory Workforce Optimization

Enterprise initiative will use predictive technology to optimize staff and space, improve patient access and support data-driven workforce decisions across Sanford Health's ambulatory network

NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- TeamBuilder, the predictive scheduling and operational intelligence platform purpose-built for ambulatory care, announced that Sanford Health has selected TeamBuilder to modernize workforce planning and staff and space scheduling across its ambulatory enterprise.

Sanford Health is the largest rural health system in the United States, with 60 hospitals, 315 clinic locations, 60,000 employees, and 4,900 physicians and advanced practice providers. The enterprise initiative will help Sanford more closely align staffing resources and clinical space with patient demand while giving operational leaders greater visibility into utilization, productivity and capacity across its distributed network.

Managing resources across a large ambulatory organization requires more than static staffing models or traditional scheduling tools. Patient demand, provider schedules, workloads and resource needs vary significantly by location and over time. TeamBuilder brings these inputs together to predict what resources are needed, recommend how staff and space should be deployed, and translate those recommendations into actionable operational decisions and executable schedules. By connecting demand, capacity and resource allocation in a single platform, TeamBuilder helps healthcare organizations move from reactive scheduling to proactive workforce and capacity management.

TeamBuilder will be deployed as part of Sanford Health's broader enterprise workforce strategy, helping leaders align staffing resources and clinical space with patient demand while improving visibility into capacity, utilization and workforce planning across the ambulatory network.

"Sanford Health is approaching workforce and resource optimization as an operational strategy, not simply a scheduling initiative," said David Howard, Founder and CEO of TeamBuilder. "By connecting patient demand, provider activity, workload and capacity directly to operational decisions, we can give Sanford leaders a clearer understanding of the resources they need—people and space—and help them act on that intelligence across their ambulatory enterprise."

With TeamBuilder, Sanford managers and operational leaders will use predictive recommendations and operational intelligence to support day-to-day staff and space scheduling as well as broader workforce planning, hiring and position-control decisions. By replacing many manual and spreadsheet-based processes with a centralized platform, Sanford aims to improve staffing alignment and productivity, increase patient access, reduce administrative burden and strengthen data-driven operational planning.

"As our organization continues to grow and evolve, we need a more consistent and data-driven way to align our resources with the needs of our patients," said Erica DeBoer, Senior Vice President, Chief Nursing Officer and executive sponsor at Sanford Health. "TeamBuilder will give our leaders and managers greater visibility into staffing and capacity so they can make more informed decisions—from building schedules to planning for future workforce needs—while supporting both our teams and the patients we serve."

The implementation will follow a phased regional approach, beginning with enterprise planning, data integration and governance before progressing through regional deployment waves.

About TeamBuilder

TeamBuilder is the predictive scheduling and operational intelligence platform purpose-built for ambulatory care. The platform optimizes both staff and space by bringing together patient demand, provider schedules, workload, workflow, availability and operational constraints to determine what resources are needed, where and when—and turning that intelligence into actionable recommendations and executable schedules.

TeamBuilder's patented predictive technology (U.S. Patent No. 12,148,523, issued in 2024) helps healthcare organizations move beyond static ratios, manual processes and traditional scheduling approaches to improve workforce efficiency, optimize space utilization, increase patient access and create greater operational visibility across complex ambulatory networks.

Learn more at teambuilder.io.

About Sanford Health
Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the healthcare experience and providing access to world-class healthcare in America's heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization has 60,000 employees and serves more than 2.5 million patients and nearly 415,000 health plan members across the upper Midwest including South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The integrated nonprofit health system includes a network of 60 hospitals, 315 clinic locations, 145 senior care communities, 4,900 physicians and advanced practice providers and 1,100 active clinical trials and studies. The organization's transformational virtual care initiative brings patients closer to care with access to nearly 80 specialties. Nearly 450 residents and fellows are trained each year through over 40 graduate medical education programs, with Sanford Health serving as the primary funding source for 75% of the programs. Sanford Health also includes 92 retail pharmacies, including Sanford and Lewis Drug pharmacies with locations in 6 states, and more than 300 pharmacists. Learn more about Sanford Health's commitment to shaping the future of rural healthcare across the lifespan at sanfordhealth.org or Sanford Health News.

SOURCE TeamBuilder