Mental Health Care in Fargo, ND

Sanford Health

What Does Sanford Health Offer?

Sanford Health is a mental health facility at 1720 South University Drive, Fargo, North Dakota, offering hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, state-financed insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy.

1720 South University Drive
Fargo, ND 58102

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

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Types of Care at Sanford Health

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Psychiatric emergency onsite services

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Electroconvulsive therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Young adults
  • Seniors or older adults
  • Veterans
  • Members of military families
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with Alzheimer's or dementia
  • Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Medications Used

  • Nicotine replacement
  • Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Assertive community treatment
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Intensive case management
  • Legal advocacy
  • Case management service
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Education services
  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring
  • Laboratory testing

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in North Dakota lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Sanford Health

Measured by straight-line distance from this facility. See every listing on the Fargo mental health care page.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

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