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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thank you for very kind words both on and offline. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I received the award but those most deserving are the 500
Gritman employees, the 500 volunteers, the physicians and the entire community
who make it all happen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thanks again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>B. J. Swanson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bill London<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 08, 2009 11:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> vision2020@mail-gw.fsr.net<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'B. J. Swanson'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] congratulations to BJ Swanson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Way
to go, BJ!</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>She
is very deserving of that honor. She is committed to community-focused
health care and an incredible asset to this community.</span></strong><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>BL</span></strong><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Lewiston
Tribune, Sunday, March 8, 2009</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>National
magazine recognizes work of Gritman board chairwoman</span></strong><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Swanson is
the chairwoman of the board of directors of Gritman Medical Center in Moscow
and has served on its board for 21 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Swanson's
work for the hospital is in a volunteer capacity. She is vice president and
manager of AmericanWest Bank in Moscow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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