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Bonner General Health Celebrates 70th Anniversary!

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Bring your family and join us on Saturday, July 13th from 12:00-3:00 pm at 423 N. Third Avenue as we celebrate our 70th Anniversary!

We will have Star the Magician, gift bags, cake & ice cream, music, and a chance to win a cruiser bike!

Cruiser Bike for Anniversary Party

Bonner General Health was established as Bonner General Hospital on July 12, 1949, making 2019 our 70th Anniversary!

Initially, the hospital was the infirmary building used at Farragut Naval Training Station. The building was barged from the southern part of Lake Pend Oreille to the current hospital location. The hospital has had many additions and renovations since, including major additions in 1972, 1978, 1988, 1998, 2000 and 2015.

In 2013, Bonner General Hospital added the “doing business as” name of Bonner General Health to better reflect what we do and the multitude of services we provide. Approximately 75% of our business is outpatient, much of which is provided outside of the main hospital building. We also wanted our name to reflect that we are committed to improving the health of our community.

The Health Services Building and Sky Bridge, located at 423 N. Third Avenue was completed in 2015. This enabled us to consolidate our services by moving Sandpoint Women’s Health, the Wound Care Center, Anticoagulation clinic and Performance Therapy Services into the new building along with Human Resources, Patient Financial Services, Accounting, and the IT department. This opened space in the main hospital building for other services to expand.

Our mission to serve our community by providing excellent healthcare close to home is possible due to our talented staff of 455 individuals, our skilled physicians, and our generous donors and volunteers.

Bonner General Health has 62 physicians on Active Medical Staff. Recently we opened Bonner General Ear, Nose and Throat and hired a full-time Otolaryngologist. We also added a psychologist and Nurse Practitioner in the Bonner General Behavioral Health Clinic, a fourth orthopedic surgeon at Bonner General Orthopedics, and soon we will bring on a full-time ophthalmologist. We are proud to partner with Schweitzer Mountain Resort to operate a First Aid Station, staffed with Registered Nurses during the ski season.

We continue to grow and improve our technology. Bonner General Health provides a multitude of diagnostic imaging services including MRI, 3-D Mammography, CT, Nuclear Medicine, Echocardiogram, Fluoroscopy, Bone Mineral Density Tests (DEXA), Ultrasound and X-ray.

The services provided through our Performance Therapy Services rehabilitation clinics include but are not limited to aquatic therapy, cancer rehabilitation, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, hand therapy, and Parkinson’s LVST Big and Loud therapy.

Bonner General Health will continue to grow and change to meet the needs of our community.

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Get to know us at Bonner General Health.

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.

  • DNV State Operations Manual
  • 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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