Bonner General Health Community Hospice is the community's only non-profit hospice provider, serving the families of Bonner and Boundary county for decades.

Hospice helps people with a life-limiting illness focus on living as fully as possible for as long as possible. Once you or your loved one have decided that curative treatment is no longer an option or maybe is no longer your desired focus of care, Hospice is here to support what is most important to you in every aspect of care.

Bonner General Community Hospice is excited to expand its team to include Dr. Jade Dardine.

Dr. Dardine moved to Sandpoint at the age of 13 and attended Sandpoint High School. She has fond memories of spending summer nights camping on her family's property up Rapid Lightning Road.

Previously her parents and now brother own the Pack River Store. She has another brother here in town, and they all have kids around the same age. “It’s wonderful to be able to raise our children with the support of extended family,” says Dr. Dardine. As a family, Jade, her husband, and two children love soccer, skiing, hiking, backpacking, and yoga.

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Dr. Dardine attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, and completed family medicine training in a community hospital in East Los Angeles.

Additionally, she spent two years (2004 and 2008) living and working in Northern India, alongside a local community doctor to help develop a program to train rural health promoters. “It was during this time that I was first able to truly experience birth, death, ceremony, trauma, all of the parts of life that require us to stop and bear witness and to come to understand the privilege of doing so.” – Dr. Dardine

Between medical school and residency, Dr. Dardine completed a post-doc at UCLA in a biochemistry research lab and was recently published in the journal Science.

“Both during medical school and residency, I was fortunate to have excellent exposure and mentoring on my palliative care rotations and have always had an interest in end of life care. My specific interest is being a strong patient advocate and translating the patient’s condition to the patient and their family culturally and sensitively. What I have learned about the dying process from my experiences worldwide is how many different ways there are to experience death. We meet people where they are.”

“I see the role of hospice as supporting people and their families through this final phase of life, and I’m excited to be able to support this interdisciplinary team in their work.” – Dr. Jade Dardine

Visit our website: bonnergeneral.org or call Bonner General Health Community Hospice at (208) 265-1179.