BLOOMINGTON, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2026--
HealthPartners today announced that Sarah Karlgaard will join the organization as senior vice president and chief legal officer beginning May 18.
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Karlgaard will oversee legal, clinical risk management, integrity and compliance, physical security and sustainability. She will work closely with executive and operational leaders to advance strategic priorities while ensuring strong legal and regulatory stewardship.
“We’re excited to welcome Sarah to the HealthPartners team,” said Andrea Walsh, HealthPartners president and CEO. “She is a collaborative leader with strong expertise in navigating complex legal and regulatory environments. Her perspective and partnership will help us advance our mission while continuing to innovate and improve the care experience.”
Karlgaard brings 20 years of legal experience, including six years as a general counsel. Throughout her career, she has provided legal and compliance guidance and served as a strategic partner on innovation and transformation initiatives across health services, care delivery and medical device organizations.
Most recently, Karlgaard served as vice president, general counsel and secretary for FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation. In that role, she led the legal function across 23 subsidiaries serving consumer, health care and business-to-business markets throughout the United States, Canada and Latin America. She was responsible for legal and governance matters across the organization.
Karlgaard earned her law degree from Drake University Law School and a bachelor’s degree in business from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She lives in the Twin Cities with her husband and two children.
About HealthPartners
HealthPartners is a nonprofit organization with a mission of improving health and well-being in partnership with its members, patients and community. An integrated system of care and coverage since its founding in 1957, HealthPartners operates hospitals and clinics, health plans, and a research and education institute. The Minneapolis-based organization serves more than 1.4 million patients in Minnesota and Wisconsin and 1.4 million medical and dental health plan members nationwide. For more information, visit healthpartners.com.
Sarah Karlgaard
The field for the NCAA Tournament will begin taking shape this week with 28 of the 29 automatic bids to be decided in conference tournaments.
Yale became the first qualifier with its 7-5 victory over Brown in the Ivy League championship game Sunday.
The 64-team national tournament opens with regional play on May 29. Regional hosts will be announced Sunday and the rest of the field next Monday. The College World Series is June 12 through June 21 or 22 in Omaha, Nebraska.
A look at the tournaments in the power conferences:
Site: Truist Field; Charlotte, North Carolina.
Days: Tuesday to Sunday.
2025 champion: North Carolina.
Top seed: Georgia Tech.
Short hops: The Yellow Jackets are the top seed for a second straight year, this time under first-year coach James Ramsey. ... Georgia Tech ended the regular season with 10 straight wins over ACC opponents. The Yellow Jackets lead the nation in scoring (10.7 runs per game) and batting average (.358). ... North Carolina leads the ACC in ERA (3.71) and fielding (.981) and reliever Caden Glauber has an ACC-leading 1.96 ERA. ... Boston College (36-20, 17-13), picked last in the ACC preseason coaches' poll, had the best regular season in the program's 80-year history. ... Louisville's Tague Davis leads the nation with 34 homers.
Site: Charles Schwab Field; Omaha, Nebraska.
Days: Tuesday to Sunday.
2025 champion: Nebraska.
Top seed: UCLA.
Short hops: The Bruins (48-6, 28-2 Big Ten) set a program record for regular-season wins and conference wins and were the only program in the nation to take at least two of three games each weekend. ... UCLA's 3.34 ERA is second in the nation and projected No. 1 MLB draft pick Roch Cholowsky has hit a Big Ten-leading 21 homers. ... Nebraska enters with a Big Ten-best seven-game winning streak, is batting .314 and ranks fourth nationally in fielding (.984). ... Catcher Burke-Lee Mabeus' squeeze bunt in the 14th inning Saturday sent Oregon to a 6-5 win over Southern California, giving the Ducks the No. 3 seed over the Trojans. ... USC leads the nation with nine shutouts.
Site: Surprise Stadium; Surprise, Arizona.
Days: Tuesday to Saturday.
2025 champion: Arizona.
Top seed: Kansas.
Short hops: This is the first time the tournament is at Surprise Stadium, the spring training home of the Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers. ... Kansas' regular-season championship was the Jayhawks' first since they won the Big Seven in 1949. ... West Virginia leads the Big 12 in ERA (3.90), hits allowed per nine innings (7.64), shutouts (6) and fielding (.981). ... Arizona State's Landon Hairston has hit a program record-tying 27 homers. ... UCF's 19 conference wins are its most since it had the same number in the Atlantic Sun in 2005. ... Oklahoma State leads the Big 12 with 137 homers, its most since 1997.
Site: Metropolitan Complex; Hoover, Alabama.
Days: Tuesday through Sunday.
2025 champion: Vanderbilt.
Top seed: Georgia.
Short hops: Georgia won nine of 10 league series, including all five on the road against ranked opponents, a first in SEC history. The Bulldogs' 147 homers are the most in the nation. ... Texas has recorded consecutive 40-win regular seasons for the first time since 2010-11. ... Gavin Lyons' nine wins and Caden Sorrell's 1.45 RBIs per game for Texas A&M lead the SEC. ... Alabama's 18 SEC wins were its most since 2009. ... Florida's Brandon Lawson averages a walk a game and leads the SEC with a .507 on-base percentage. ... Defending national champion LSU, the No. 14 seed in the 16-team field, was 9-21 (.300) in SEC play, its worst conference record since 4-15 (.211) in 1977.
UCLA, North Carolina (43-10-1) and Georgia Tech (45-9) remained the top three Monday in the D1Baseball.com rankings.
In the Baseball America rankings, Tech moved up one rung to No. 2 and Carolina dropped one spot to No. 3.
UCLA bounced back from an 8-0 loss to Washington to beat the Huskies 6-5 and 6-1 to finish the regular season. Carolina took two of three at home against N.C. State. Georgia Tech outscored Boston College 38-3 over three games on the road, its most lopsided series win over a Top 25 opponent.
AP college sports: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports
FILE - The NCAA logo is seen on a baseball during an NCAA college baseball tournament regional game between Louisiana-Lafayette and Mississippi State in Lafayette, La., June 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman, File)
