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November is National Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care Month

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Bonner General Health’s Home Health Team 

Home Health Team 2019

Pictured left to right back row: Matt, Christine, Terri, Doree, Karen, Roger, Robin, Mary

Pictured left to right front row: Poshe, Rachel, Cher, Deb, Maggie, Emily, Tami, Nolan

Not pictured: Tammy, Sharon, Susan

Home Health

Our Home Health Services team provides excellence in healthcare based on our philosophy that patients should be able to choose the healthcare services that best meet their medical and social needs and to have those services provided in their own home.

Because the home environment can provide the best setting to meet patients’ healthcare needs, we are dedicated to providing quality, compassionate care to our patients in their place of residence.

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Bonner General Health’s Community Hospice Team 

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Pictured left to right back row: Dorre, Wayne, Lissa, Christa, Tami, & Steve

Pictured left to right front row: Hospice Medical Director Dr. Sam Uzabel, Jennifer, Yvonne, Maggi, & Deb

Not pictured: Sharon, Nolan, Michelle, Ginny, & Susan

Hospice

Bonner General Health Community Hospice provides personalized care in Bonner and Boundary Counties for those facing a life-limiting illness, injury or disease. The hospice medical director, along with a team of nurses, social workers, certified nurse aides, therapists, chaplains, and volunteers works in partnership with patients’ healthcare providers and offer physical, emotional and spiritual services and support for the hospice client and their families.

Bonner General Health Community Hospice is the only nonprofit hospice provider in northern Idaho.

We partner with our patients to walk with them on their personal journey with hope, support and the very highest quality of life.

Family members and loved ones receive counseling and bereavement care to help them cope with the many losses they face during the illness and with the grief they experience afterward. Call 208-265-1179 for more information.

Hospice services are paid for by Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurance plans and HMOs.

Palliative Care

Palliative Care serves to improve quality of life by assisting an adult or child with a chronic or serious illness who is experiencing pain or other symptoms.

Palliative Care nurses specialize in comprehensive symptom management. The Palliative Care team focuses on physical, emotional, spiritual, and practical concerns while supporting the patient and family.

The goal of Palliative Care is to help the person live life to the fullest with optimal comfort.

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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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