The medical-care landscape of North Dakota is changing drastically with the oil boom, making it difficult for oilfield workers to seek out basic care.“North Dakota is fairly rural in nature, but many communities have health care facilities. I don’t think anybody was exactly predicting the population growth, and hence the health care demand would have grown so fast,” says Stephanie Murdock, enterprise vice president of corporate occupational medicine for Sanford Health in Bismarck, N.D. “The boom has made health care access difficult for those [oilfield] workers.”Sanford Health is an integrated health system headquartered in the Dakotas and is now the
