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BGH Partnering with LPOSD on National Bike to School Day


 
Bonner General Health is providing snack bags to children in Lake Pend Oreille School District who participate in Bike/Walk to School Day hosted by the National Center for Safe Routes to School in an effort to encourage students to choose an active and healthy lifestyle.

The National Center for Safe Routes to School (National Center) is committed to empowering communities to make walking and bicycling to school a safe, appealing, preferred choice for families. The National Center facilitates communities in becoming places for safe walking and bicycling for everyone starting with children and the trip to school. In 2016, we launched the initiative “Vision Zero for Youth,” linking Walk to School Day with communities and elected officials making a commitment to promote safe walking and bicycling and to eliminate fatal and serious traffic crashes.
The National Center is applying what’s been learned during our 10 years of supporting and documenting the many accomplishments of the SRTS program as a framework for advancing the larger goals of Vision Zero/Road to Zero. We promote safe walking and biking by:

  • Using Safe Routes to School as a framework for “Vision Zero for Youth.”
  • Engaging local elected officials and communities in building support for Vision Zero starting with youth.
  • Focusing on speed reduction starting in places where children and youth travel.
  • Using Walk to School Day and Bike to School Day to increase local leader commitment and visibility for traffic safety.
  • Expanding student travel data collection to examine the relationship between student and parent walking and biking frequency.

 
Go to WalkBiketoSchool.org for more information on the event and to locate schools participating in your area.
 
Childhood Obesity

Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic in the United States. It affects more than 30 percent of children, making it the most common chronic disease of childhood. This number has more than tripled since 1980.
Childhood obesity is a health issue. Today, more and more children are being diagnosed with diabetes, hypertension and other co-morbid conditions associated with obesity and morbid obesity.
Go to ChildhoodObesity.org for more information on how to identify if your child is at risk of being obese and steps for prevention.

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Bonner General Health provides comprehensive medical services to patients in Northern Idaho, Eastern Washington, and Western Montana. Bonner General Health’s main campus is located in the beautiful Sandpoint, ID with several outpatient clinics in the surrounding areas.

Bonner General Health is accredited by DNV GL-Healthcare with a demonstrated expertise in patient safety and quality management.

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  • NIAHO Accreditation Requirements

2021 Board of Directors

  • Ford Elsaesser –  Board Chairman
  • Tim Cochran – Vice Chairman
  • Tom Lawrence, MD – Secretary
  • Scott Burgstahler, MD – Board Member
  • Bart Casey – Board Member
  • James Frank – Board Member
  • Michelle Anderson, DNP – Board Member
  • Margi Gunter – Board Member
  • Sheryl Rickard – Board Member & CEO
  • Jack Parker – Emeritus

History

Established:
The original hospital was an old infirmary building used at the once active Farragut Naval Training Station, located on the southern tip of Lake Pend Oreille. In 1949, this single-story wooden structure was barged 25 miles up Lake Pend Oreille to its current location.

Even though the hospital was rebuilt decades ago, it still sits on its original site along the banks of Sand Creek.

Additions & Renovations:
In 1992, Creekside Health Center was built to provide a unique physicians complex which houses various medical practices as well as a large, well-equipped conference room.

In 1999, the hospital’s 50th birthday, a new addition was completed that houses:

Many of the Hospital’s Outpatient Services
Rooftop Helipad
Private Counseling Rooms
Private Treatment Rooms
State-of-the-art Surgical Services Center

Our Values

Express empathy for the needs, thoughts and feelings of those we serve and with whom we work.

Deliver the best outcomes possible and the highest quality service.

Adhere to the highest standards of professionalism, ethics and personal responsibility.

Responsibly use and be accountable for our resources.

Construction of our Health Services Building and skywalk in downtown Sandpoint began in 2014, and was completed in the spring of 2015.

We bridged our hospital services with preventative healthcare and outpatient services. With the expansion of our campus, our departments added state-of-the-art equipment and services that patients used to have to go out of town to receive.

While healthcare has drastically changed from the days of the single-story wooden infirmary, the employees at Bonner General Health continue to demonstrate the same warmth and friendliness of that first small-town hospital.

Mission

To improve health, inspire hope and save lives.

Vision

To be known for excellent, personal care that makes Bonner General Health the first choice for the health care needs of our community.

We provide essential urgent, acute, and critical care as well as a host of other services
to meet the needs of our growing and vibrant community.

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Bonner General Health is a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital and healthcare network of outpatient clinics and services serving Sandpoint and the surrounding region.

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