Mental Health America (MHA) has awarded Sanford Health the 2025 Platinum Bell Seal for Workplace Mental Health. This is the third year in a row Sanford Health has received recognition from Mental Health America and the first time achieving platinum status.
The Bell Seal is a workplace mental health certification that recognizes employers who strive to create mentally healthy workplaces for their employees. Sanford Health underwent a rigorous evaluation of its policies and practices in four areas: workplace culture, benefits, compliance and wellness programs. Only two in five employers meet the standards for Bell certification. Sanford Health is the only organization that is 2025 Bell Seal-certified in North Dakota and South Dakota.
Sanford Health has led efforts to combat work-related stress and burnout through resiliency groups, training, a clinician assistance program, counseling, a physician wellness council and comprehensive mental health resources to help employees take care of themselves physically and emotionally while caring for patients and residents.
Sanford has also developed a program called BeHEARD: Behavioral Health Education and Response Development, which is an interactive virtual course designed to increase participants’ knowledge, skills, and confidence to support people with behavioral health concerns. This course is intended to support a culture where employees are comfortable reaching out to each other, patients, residents, visitors and family/friends when behavioral health concerns are noted.
All supervisors and above are required to take the course to ensure they know how to best support the behavioral needs of their team.
This month, Sanford Health was recognized on Fortune’s Most Innovative Companies list for the third year in a row.
