Kootenai Donates
Medical Beds to Mineral
Community Hospital
BEDS WILL HELP SUPPORT PATIENT CARE AND BENEFIT OTHER
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
By Andrea Nagel
Kootenai Health
recently donated hospital beds to
Mineral Community Hospital in Superior, Montana.
The 25 beds are being used to supplement Mineral’s
current supply. All of the beds are currently in use,
said Larry Putnam, interim CEO of Mineral Community
Hospital.
Donations between health care facilities are not uncom-
mon. Kootenai usually donates to other organizations
twice each year, but will donate more frequently if equip-
ment is removed from service and is no longer needed.
“We try to donate locally or to our northern part-
ners when the opportunity arises,” Peder Davidson, a
manager in facilities services at Kootenai, said. “We
also donated 16 beds to Boundary Community Hospital
and have donated beds in the past to the North Idaho
College nursing program.”
Kootenai recently purchased 47 new Stryker hospital
beds to replace those that were donated. The new beds
offer more safety features for both patients and Koote-
nai staff.
“The beds that were replaced were over 10 years
old,” Peder said. “The new beds offered greater tech-
nology and with it increased safety features to aid in a
number of areas including employee back injury reduc-
tion, patient pressure ulcer reduction, and reduced
patient fall rates.”
Mineral’s old beds were given to individuals in need
of hospice or home care.
“We are very grateful for Kootenai’s donation,” Larry
said. “MCH is a small hospital and it’s great that these
were sent our way. Our old beds were in rough shape
and in need of a lot of maintenance. These beds are very
much appreciated by us and the community members
who benefitted from our old equipment.”
Meghan Saccone, C.N.A., adjusts a patient bed like
the ones donated to Mineral Community Hospital.
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