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Boundary Community Hospital, a DNV accredited Critical Access Hospital, offers residents of Boundary County and the surrounding area top tier emergency care services, acute care services with swing beds, as well as an award-winning extended care facility and nursing home. Outpatient services include physical, speech and occupational therapy, cardiopulmonary services, digital x-ray, mammography, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computerized tomography (CT) imaging. The fully-licensed, full-service, inspected and accredited Clinical Medical Laboratory operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The hospital also operates a primary care physician practice and several specialist clinics including cardiology, general surgery, orthopedics and women’s health.

The Boundary Community Hospital Board of Trustees is charged with the responsibility of maintaining the hospital and its associated equipment. The board has identified physical plant and medical equipment that require improvements, upgrading and/or replacement. The cost of these items is beyond the resources available from hospital operations. As a result, additional taxpayer support is necessary. Without adequate funding for periodic upgrades and improvements, the hospital risks becoming functionally obsolete, and providers’ abilities to offer the most up-to-date, thorough, accurate and wide range of services to the surrounding population will be affected.

Boundary County Commissioners approved the ballot measure asking voters to approve a two-year supplemental levy, as allowed by Idaho law, to generate an additional $414,000 per year for hospital purposes for two years. Pursuant to Idaho Code §63-802(3), a request for taxing authority of this nature will be submitted to voters at the November 8, 2016 general election. If approval would be forthcoming from the voters in November 2016 by a simple majority, initial revenues would be realized no earlier than December of 2017. Accordingly, any voter-approved budget resources could first be utilized in the fiscal year 2017 county budget. Cost for the levy will be $48.00 per $100,000 in real property assessed value, after the homeowner exemption is applied, per year for two years.

As both residents and taxpayers, the hospital trustees fully appreciate that no one wants to pay additional taxes; we are not exceptions to that rule ourselves. Nonetheless, we have recognized and believe the community has acknowledged an up-to-date, well-equipped hospital facility is essential to the health of county residents, is vital for the local economy and is necessary to sustain adequate medical care for the comfort and convenience of all citizens.

The hospital is requesting funding for specific equipment and/or capital improvements; not just a general fund request. The funds will be spent on:

• Upgrading the climate control system at the hospital

• Replacing the main fire panel for the hospital and nursing home building

• Upgrades to surgery including new instruments, scopes and orthopedic surgery equipment

• New laboratory equipment for blood and virus testing to speed analyses results for faster diagnosis and treatment

• C-Arm Portable X-Ray machine for surgery and emergency use

• CT injector that works with the new CT scanner to produce better images

While remaining conscious of healthcare costs, the hospital board of trustees wants residents of Boundary County to be able to rely on having the best medical care possible. Boundary Community Hospital is proud to provide the vital health services you and your family deserve, delivered with professionalism and compassion – right here at home.

Boundary Community Hospital

6640 Kaniksu Street

Bonners Ferry, ID 83805

www.boundarycommunityhospital.org

208.267.3141

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