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Sanford Health names Schlinger employer relations director

(Bismarck, N.D.)—Damian Schlinger has recently been named employer relations director of the Sanford Health Occupational Medicine Clinic.

As employer relations director, Schlinger will be responsible for developing and overseeing a new corporate account management division. He will work with the occupational medicine clinic operations team to ensure that client needs are met, develop an account representative program, ensure care of the 6,100 existing corporate accounts and the 50 new accounts added each month, and identify and present additional occupational medicine services those accounts could utilize.

Prior to this position, Schlinger was the manager of the surgical areas at Sanford Medical Center Bismarck. Schlinger has also been manager of the western region of the Sanford Walk-in Clinics headquartered in Bismarck, and was also injury prevention manager at Sanford Health Occupational Medicine Clinic. He has been with Sanford Health for seven years.

The western region of Sanford Health Occupational Medicine Clinic, headquartered in Bismarck, N.D., provides one central location for all occupational medicine services. With locations in Bismarck, Dickinson and Minot, the goal of occupational medicine is to develop programs specific to each employer that keeps their workers safe, well and productive.

About Sanford Health
Sanford Health is an integrated health system headquartered in the Dakotas and is now the largest, rural, not-for-profit health care system in the nation with locations in 126 communities in eight states. In addition, Sanford Health is in the process of developing international clinics in Ghana, Israel and Mexico.

Sanford Health includes 35 hospitals, 140 clinic locations and 1,360 physicians in 81 specialty areas of medicine. With more than 26,000 employees, Sanford Health is the largest employer in North and South Dakota. The system is experiencing dynamic growth and development in conjunction with Denny Sanford's nearly $700 million in gifts, the largest ever to a health care organization in America. These gifts are making possible the implementation of several initiatives including global children's clinics, multiple research centers and finding cures for type 1 diabetes and breast cancer. For more information, please visit sanfordhealth.org.