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FACILITIES
Room to Grow
K O O T E N A I H E A L T H ’ S N E W M E D I C A L O F F I C E B U I L D I N G
I S L O C A T E D A T 1 9 1 9 L I N C O L N WA Y
imaging services as well as easy
access to the hospital is ideal,” said
Jon Ness, CEO, Kootenai Health. “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.”
Q U A L I T Y H E A L T H C A R E
C L O S E T O H O M E
“The expansion of the Interlake
building is in alignment with our
strategic plan as we work more
closely with growing physician
offices,” said Jeremy Evans, vice
president of professional services
at Kootenai Health.
This expansion inmedical facilities
and the family medicine residency
program are being developed in
response to a national and regional
shortfall in the number of family
medicine physicians. (Idaho ranks
49th in the nation for physicians
By Andrea Kalas-Nagel
IF YOU’VE DRIVEN BY THE
Interlake Medical Building, you
may have noticed signs of growth.
Site work is now under way for a
new medical office building. This
new facility will host multiple
clinics, as well as Kootenai Health’s
new family medicine residency
program.
The new building is being devel-
oped in partnership with Parkwood
Business Properties. Construction is
currently set to be completed in the
fall of 2013.
The new building will have sky
bridge access to the Interlake build-
ing. This in turn connects to Kootenai
Medical Center via a tunnel under
Ironwood Drive.
S T R A T E G I C
C O O P E R A T I O N
“We’re very excited to be working
with Kootenai Health on this new
project,” said Chris Meyer, develop-
ment manager for Parkwood. “We’ve
had a great partnership with Koote-
nai Health for over 25 years, starting
with the creation of the Kootenai
Cancer Center back in 1986.”
Along with the family medicine
residency program, Kootenai phy-
sicians specializing in neurology,
diabetes, endocrinology and other
specialties will be located in the new
facility. Additional support services,
including a lab, basic radiology and
financial counseling, will be incor-
porated into the new building, as
well.
“Developing a location specifically
suited to the residency programwith
things like on-site access to a lab and
per 1,000 people.) Additionally,
a recent assessment of the region
specifically identified a need for as
many as 72 additional primary care
physicians by 2015.
O U T S T A N D I N G
L E A D E R S H I P
In his role as program director, Rich-
ardMcLandress, M.D., will organize
and direct the residency program.
“Each physician who stays in
a community generates $1.3 mil-
lion in economic impact annually,”
Dr. McLandress said. “Each phy-
sician’s practice also creates an
additional six to seven new jobs in
the community. Kootenai’s residency
programwill be a win for the region
in many ways.”
Kootenai and Parkwood Proper-
ties expect to move into the new
facility next fall. Physician offices,
including the first group of six resi-
dents, will be on-site in the summer
of 2014.
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