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Bonner General Health Hosts a Four-Part Podcast Series, "Conversations on Living & Dying Well"

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Bonner General Health Community Hospice recorded a four-part podcast series entitled: “Conversations on Living and Dying Well”, that originally aired on KRFY Panhandle Radio, 88.5 FM in February and March of 2019.

You are invited to listen to the podcasts of those conversations posted below, that explore the full spectrum of ‘living and dying well’, generously shared by a team of local palliative care experts, spiritual care providers and community members that are journeying through loss, death and offering seeds of inspiration in the transformative gifts of living life well.

The first podcast, “A Matter of Life and Death”, offers an overview of the full spectrum of palliative care, advanced directives, and common hospice myths. This is a conversation with individuals living with chronic and life-limiting illnesses that explores the power of living life all the way to the end.

Other topics covered in this four-part series include, “The Healing Journey of Loss, Spirituality and Living & Dying Well”, and “The Care-Partner Journey in Living & Dying Well”. These podcasts give the listener an opportunity to explore and expand their own thoughts about living and dying.

Bonner General Health extends a big thank you to KRFY Panhandle Radio 88.5 FM for providing an in-kind grant to support this community podcast conversation project.

For additional information, please contact Lissa DeFreitas, Bonner General Health Community Hospice Volunteer/Bereavement Coordinator, and producer of Conversations on Living & Dying Well 4-Part Podcast at 208-265-1185 or by email at [email protected].


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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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  • Tim Cochran – Vice Chairman
  • Tom Lawrence, MD – Secretary
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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

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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.

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