Bonner General Hospital

Description

About Bonner General Hospital
Bonner General Hospital is a fullservice acute care hospital licensed for 48 beds The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and is a member of the Voluntary Hospitals of America

Bonner General Hospital serves a population of over 57000 people in a widelydispersed geographical area that extends to the Canadian border eastern Washington and western Montana The hospital is currently the fourth largest employer in Bonner County with 425 hospital employees and over 50 medical staff members

MISSION
To provide excellence in healthcare close to home

VISION
To be recognized as the best place to work and the first choice for healthcare in the communities we serve

VALUES AND COMMITMENTS
Excellence
Integrity
Innovation
Compassion
Respect
Safety

History

History of Bonner General Hospital
Bonner General Hospital was incorporated in 1949 and has a colorful if not watery beginning 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 singlestory 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

In 1992 Creekside Health Center was built to provide a unique physicians complex which houses various medical practices as well as a large wellequipped conference room

In 1999 the hospitals 50th birthday a new addition was completed that houses a spacious stateof theart surgical services center a rooftop helipad private treatment and counseling rooms and many of the hospitals outpatient services

While healthcare has drastically changed from the days of the singlestory wooden infirmary the employees at Bonner General Hospital continue to demonstrate the same warmth and friendliness of that first smalltown hospital