Extended Care Facility
Nursing Home
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Recognized for Excellence
2018-2019 High Performing Nursing Home
Not only have patients and their families recognized the excellence of care, the Boundary Community Hospital Extended Care Facility (ECF) (also known as Boundary County Nursing Home) has been recognized nationwide as one of the top Nursing Homes in Idaho.
2022 Women’s Choice Award – America’s Best for Extended Care/Idaho
Boundary Community Hospital Extended Care Facility/Boundary County Nursing Home named as one of the best extended care facilities in Idaho by Women’s Choice Award, a group whose mission is to give women a collective voice so that they can help each other identify brands, products and services that deserve her loyalty and referrals. Read More
In 2018, Boundary Community Hospital’s ECF was recognized by the State of Idaho for providing excellence in resident care as a recipient of Gold L. Jean Schoonover Excellence in Caring Award. This was the eleventh Schoonover Award the facility received since 2004. This award is named in honor of L. Jean Schoonover, RN, who was the Chief of the Bureau of Facility Standards until her death in 1994. She is most remembered for her dedication and commitment to the assurance that the citizens of the state of Idaho residing in health care facilities received the highest quality of care possible.
Hospital lauded for excellence – The Spokesman – Review
BCH dedicated to caring for community’s loved ones – The Bonner County Daily Bee
2018 Gold Schoonover Award to ECF July 25, 2018
2017 Gold Schoonover Award to ECF July 31, 2017
Excellence In Caring – Again July 17, 2016
Caring Is Giving From The Heart
Caring is a commitment to treat every resident as family and to make their stay in our Nursing Home and Extended Care Facility as close to home as we can make it.
The Extended Care Facility at Boundary Community Hospital is a licensed, skilled nursing home for long-term care with a 5 Star Rating and multiple Excellence in Caring Awards from the State of Idaho. The homelike environment of the facility and the family of caregivers who provide high-quality healthcare, are dedicated to the physical and emotional well-being of the residents.
HISTORY
A nursing home was added to the hospital in 1966. Twenty seven years later in 1993, the community supported a $5 million bond issue to completely renovate and expand the hospital and nursing home.
Many people who helped in the 1950s during the building and furnishing of the new hospital were able to spend their last years in the Extended Care Facility enjoying more frequent visits from family and friends than would have been possible if there wasn’t a nursing home facility in our county.
COMMITTED TO THE COMMUNITY
Our Extended Care facility offers the highest level of care for older adults and other people needing a high level of care outside of a hospital. We provide what is called skilled care, including getting in and out of bed, providing assistance with feeding, bathing, and dressing, nursing care, and rehabilitation services.
Boundary Community Hospital Extended Care facility differs from other senior housing facilities. The facility is a licensed Nursing Facility, certified for both Medicare and Medicaid. A licensed physician supervises each patient’s care and a licensed nurse is always on the premises. Skilled nursing care is available on site, 24 hours a day. Other medical professionals, such as occupational or physical therapists, are also available, providing medical procedures and therapies on site that would not be possible in other housing situations.
ACTIVITIES AND SPECIAL EVENTS
Our staff includes an activity coordinator and several assistants who encourage the residents to stay as active as possible through games, movies, walks, outings, jigsaw puzzles, stretching exercises and other activities.
Local churches hold services every Sunday throughout the month alternating weeks for those wishing to attend a church service. Several residents attend and enjoy the singing, the familiar hymns and the short sermons. Often people of the congregation come and visit with their elderly friends who now live in the Extended Care facility.
Compassion and respect means going the extra mile to make someone comfortable.
It means preparing the wheel-chair accessible van and taking three residents of Extended Care to Smith Lake to sit on the dock and fish. It means somebody in the hospital cleaning the fish. It means the kitchen staff cooking and preparing the fish. It means staff members congratulating the fishermen.
This compassion and respect results in a facility well-run; with patients well-cared for.