Kootenai Clinic gets new building
DAVID COLE/Staff writer | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 12 years AGO
COEUR d'ALENE - Kootenai Health's physician group, Kootenai Clinic, is now occupying a new building that cost $16.6 million to construct on its campus.
The Kootenai Clinic building at 1919 Lincoln Way in Coeur d'Alene is now home to four physician practices, a lab, an imaging center and a coffee shop. Becky Orchard, a spokeswoman for Kootenai Health, said a 20-year lease was signed on the building, which is owned by Parkwood Business Properties, of Coeur d'Alene.
Kootenai Clinic doctors first saw patients in the building on Nov. 18, she said. Kootenai Clinic will occupy 48,000 square feet of floor space in the 63,000-square-foot building.
The new facility is next door to the Interlake building at 700 Ironwood Drive, which houses six more practices, including cardiology and oncology.
"Having all of your specialists in the same location and under the same organizational governance will allow for more collaboration and transition of care," said Walt Fairfax, Kootenai Health's chief medical officer.
The Kootenai Clinic building also will house Kootenai Health's family medicine residency program.
"It will provide a model environment with residents working shoulder-to-shoulder with experienced physicians and specialists who can guide their learning every step of the way," said Jon Ness, Kootenai Health's CEO.
Sixteen providers and 40 staff members made the move into the new building. The Kootenai Clinic will serve approximately 300 patients each day.
Kootenai Health said in a news release Wednesday the expansion in medical facilities on the campus and the family medicine residency program are being developed in response to a national and regional shortage in the number of primary care doctors. Idaho ranks 49th in the nation for physicians per 1,000 people.
A recent assessment of the region specifically identified a need for as many as 72 additional primary care doctors by 2015, Kootenai Health said.
Williamson Johnson Co., of Coeur d'Alene, was the general contractor on the building construction and John Eixenberger was the building architect.
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