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<P minmax_bound="true"><STRONG minmax_bound="true">Way to go, BJ!</STRONG></P>
<P minmax_bound="true"><STRONG>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.</STRONG></P>
<P minmax_bound="true"><STRONG>She is very deserving of that honor. She is
committed to community-focused health care and an incredible asset to this
community.</STRONG></P>
<P minmax_bound="true"><STRONG>BL</STRONG></P>
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<P minmax_bound="true"><STRONG minmax_bound="true">Lewiston Tribune, Sunday,
March 8, 2009</STRONG></P>
<P minmax_bound="true"><STRONG minmax_bound="true">National magazine recognizes
work of Gritman board chairwoman</STRONG></P>
<P minmax_bound="true">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.</P>
<P minmax_bound="true">Swanson is the chairwoman of the board of directors of
Gritman Medical Center in Moscow and has served on its board for 21 years.</P>
<P minmax_bound="true">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.</P>
<P minmax_bound="true">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. </P>
<P minmax_bound="true">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. </P>
<P minmax_bound="true">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. </P>
<P minmax_bound="true">Swanson's work for the hospital is in a volunteer
capacity. She is vice president and manager of AmericanWest Bank in
Moscow.</P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>