In 2004, MeritCare was named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals by Solucient and. MeritCare Health System is an integrated, nonprofit clinic and health care system that provides medical services to more than 2 million patients a year throughout the greater North Dakota region. Meritcare is composed of the MeritCare Medical Center, MeritCare South University and a network of regional clinic locations in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. The health system provides more than 75 medical specialties, including anesthesiology, neuroradiology, pediatric orthopaedics, radiology, family medicine and transplantation surgery. MeritCare was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Fargo, N.D.