Mobile Medicine

Sanford Health wants to help workers by bringing preventive care options to the oilfields.
Mobile Medicine
Sanford Health’s O.P.C. mobileMED units are located throughout western North Dakota in the Bakken Shale play. The units are used to help with occupational health services such as regular checkups, drug screenings and X-rays, to name a few. They went online in early July.

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...

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