** About Bonner General Hospital **
Bonner General Hospital is a full-service, 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 57,000 people in a widely-dispersed 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.
** 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 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.
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 a spacious, state-of -the-art surgical services center, a rooftop helipad, private treatment and counseling rooms and many of the hospital's outpatient services.
While healthcare has drastically changed from the days of the single-story wooden infirmary, the employees at Bonner General Hospital continue to demonstrate the same warmth and friendliness of that first small-town hospital.
