15 Years of Making a Difference

Coeur d’Alene, Idaho—For 15 years the North Idaho Health Network (NIHN) has been making a difference in people’s lives. Community physicians and hospitals of the five north Idaho counties formed NIHN in 1994, as a defensive move against the then popular HMO plans. Today the network is the trusted, local health resource working to optimize health by creating and promoting solutions designed to educate the community and achieve high quality, cost-effective health care at the logical level-locally. The network is comprised of more than 270 physicians and five non-profit community-owned health centers including Kootenai Medical Center, Bonner General Hospital, Boundary Community Hospital and Shoshone Community Hospital. 

 

North Idaho Health Network believes in order to achieve high quality, evidence-based care at the best price quality physicians, hospitals and allied health care providers, must work together. Through their partnerships, NIHN has consistently kept the cost of health care 8 to 12 percent lower than the national average.

 

Not only does working together through NIHN save the community money, but it also brings together the best solutions to deliver the highest quality health care locally, in an effort to achieve NIHN’s mission: to be the trusted, local health resource.