MARSHFIELD, WI (WSAU) — Marshfield Mayor Lois TeStrake says the partnership between Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Sanford Health and the Marshfield Clinic Health System has been positive for the city.
“What impresses me the most about Sanford and Marshfield Clinic is we are both rural,” said TeStrake. “We are working together to make this better.”
She acknowledged that the road for Marshfield Clinic wasn’t always smooth, with two failed merger attempts earlier this decade. “But now I feel that crack is being filled and it is only going to get better. [During the transition] there will be some things that aren’t so great, but that’s the way of the world. But, the way I see it, when I go to the clinic I’m impressed with the difference.”
Those include better morale among workers and an increase in the workforce. Now she says it’s the city’s job to show that the Sanford investment was worthwhile. “We don’t want [Sanford] to just give us the money; we need to earn that. That’s what he’s doing, which I think is great. We are earning it the way we should.”
The Mayor recently visited with Sanford leadership in Sioux Falls, where she marveled at the growing city and all it has to offer, saying she took the health system’s private jet from Marshfield to FSD for the visit.
Other topics TeStrake and Administrator Steve Barg discussed with WSAU’s Mike Leischner include:
Start of video- Weinbrenner plans
6:38- Sanford partnership
13:00- Goals for 2026
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