[Vision2020] congratulations to BJ Swanson

[keely emerinemix]

B.J. Swanson is a gift to this community and I'm so proud of her -- and proud to be her friend.  Each of us owes her a hearty "thank you" for her Gritman work as well as her effort to strengthen Latah County's economy.

Keely
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/




From: london at moscow.com
To: vision2020 at mail-gw.fsr.net
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 12:52:37 -0700
CC: bjswan at fastmail.fm
Subject: [Vision2020] congratulations to BJ Swanson











Way to go, BJ!

As explained in the announcement from today's 
Tribune, BJ is now nationally-recognized for her decades of good work on behalf 
of Gritman Medical Center.

She is very deserving of that honor.  She is 
committed to community-focused health care and an incredible asset to this 
community.

BL

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Lewiston Tribune, Sunday, 
March 8, 2009

National magazine recognizes 
work of Gritman board chairwoman

MOSCOW - Modern Healthcare magazine has named B.J. 
Swanson its 2009 trustee of the year for small health care organizations with 
less than $75 million in annual revenue or fewer than 250 beds.

Swanson is the chairwoman of the board of directors of 
Gritman Medical Center in Moscow and has served on its board for 21 years.

The hospital has successfully responded to a variety of 
challenges under her leadership, according to an article in Modern Healthcare 
magazine about Swanson winning the award.

Moscow's population size made it vulnerable to a 
for-profit company opening an out-patient surgery clinic that could have cut 
into Gritman's revenues. Instead the hospital collaborated with area physicians 
and started the for-profit Palouse Surgery Center. The volume at the surgery 
center was at 200 cases per month as of January and it had a net income of close 
to $400,000 for 2008. 

Swanson was on site soon after the hospital's emergency 
room flooded when a driver accidentally hit a fire hydrant just outside 
Gritman's entrance in May 2007. She helped coordinate an effort to bail 18 
inches of water out of the emergency room and move the emergency room to a 
temporary location at the hospital. 

Within four hours the emergency room was accepting 
patients again. A $2 million renovated emergency room opened in October 2007, 
even though the insurance claim on the loss isn't yet settled. 

Swanson's work for the hospital is in a volunteer 
capacity. She is vice president and manager of AmericanWest Bank in 
Moscow.

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