SANDPOINT — Bonner General Health’s former chief financial officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to embezzling more than $200,000 from the hospital.

Norilina Salvatierra Harvel is scheduled to be sentenced in 1st District Court on July 8. She is free on 50,000 bail while the case is pending.

Harvel, 47, faces up to 10 years on a charge of grand theft, although a binding plea agreement is being proposed which would guarantee a withheld judgment for five years and impose 90 days of incarceration in the Bonner County Jail. When judgment is withheld, a judge does not impose a conviction and places a defendant on probation.

If Harvel successfully completes her court-ordered obligations, the conviction won’t appear on her criminal record, but the felony charge against her will. Those obligations include paying $217,075.26 in restitution within a five-year period of probation.

Judge Barbara Buchanan stopped short of being party to the agreement until the results of a pre-sentence investigation are complete, according to court records. That investigation drills down into a defendant’s social and criminal history.

Harvel has no known prior criminal record, which elevates her chances for being granted a withheld judgment.

Court records indicate that a substantial portion of the restitution — up to $150,000 — will be paid by the time of sentencing.

If Buchanan declines to bind herself to the plea agreement, Harvel will be allowed to withdraw the plea and proceed to trial.

The charge against Harvel surfaced last fall. She accused of using a variety of schemes to bilk as much $220,000 from the hospital from 2012 to 2014. She left BGH in 2014 to take a job with a Colorado hospital, but is no longer employed at that facility.

Harvel and her defense counsel, Craig Zanetti, have declined to comment on the case.

Hospital officials contend that Harvel purchased a piece of medical equipment for the hospital, but sold it to a leasing company and pocket the proceeds. Harvel made payments on the lease using misappropriated funds and claimed to have purchased another piece of equipment without actually buying it, hospital officials have said.

A motive for the thefts has not been disclosed. Harvel earned an annual salary of approximately $100,000 and hospital officials said they discovered nothing indicating Harvel was in a financial crisis.