Valley Vista Care Center

Valley Vista Care Services offers a variety of long-term care options for seniors and the disabled of the area, including a 70-bed care center, 16-bed assisted living cottage care as well as an assortment of home care options. Valley Vista at this time, also offers the only state-approved Behavior Management program for residents with special behavior needs such as Alzheimer's and Huntington disease. Valley Vista Care Corporation is a locally owned and operated, non-profit, Christian organization dedicated to delivering the highest quality care possible.

Benewah Community Hospital

Benewah Community Hospital is a 25 bed county-owned facility with a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic services. Bucking the national trends, the hospital is experiencing increasing in-patient and out-patient volume and is in the process of expanding its physical facility to meet this growth. This exciting process should dramatically increase the space for diagnostic services, provide greater efficiency and instill a new modern look to the hospital.

In addition to an excellent nursing staff, the hospital provides full service laboratory and radiology services including ultrasound, mammography and CT scanning; obstetrical services; respiratory care and home oxygen; physical therapy; and a variety of cardiac diagnostics. The emergency, ICU and surgical capabilities meet the community's needs for these services.

Benewah Community Hospital was recently named the "comeback hospital of the year" by Hospital's Magazine. This national award recognized the hospital's growth into a model rural health care system.

Other Medical Sevices

St. Maries and the Benewah County area are blessed with an excellent rural health care system. At St. Maries Family Medicine, residency trained/board Certified Family Practice, Surgery and Obstetrics specialists (as well as a variety of visiting sub-specialists) provide a wealth of expertise and care. In Plummer, Benewah Medical Center and its physicians provide excellent primary care services to area residents.

Three highly-trained and qualified dentists practice full time in St. Maries and an orthodontist visits frequently. An optometrist runs the local eye clinic on a full-time basis. The St. Maries area is served by well-trained ambulance crews and quick response units. When necessary, provisions have been made for helicopter transportation to larger medical facilities approximately 20 minutes flight time away.

There is a full-service pharmacy in St. Maries, a Home Health service and a local Hospice. Also serving the community are two chiropractors Dr. Saunders and Back in Health

Unique to Benewah County is the willingness of all providers to work together to assure better patient care. Area physicians have consolidated with the hospital to reduce costs, improve quality and establish more services. All health care providers in the county have been invited to be a part of Benewah Health Services Corporation, an entity whose whole function is to encourage collaborative activities.

Utilizing the motto "Together We Care For You" the health care providers of Benewah County are a strong professional and economic asset to the area. The rapid developments in health care during recent years are a testament to what can be done when all providers are headed in the same direction.