Fall 2006
Vol. 3 No. 3

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  • A Promise of a Rose Garden
  • CEO's Notes
  • Dr. Paul Olson offers Chronic Pain Management Services
  • Flexible LPN program offered
  • Running the Bigfork Valley Challenge




    Wellness Notes
    published 3 or 4 times a year by:
    Bigfork Valley Hospital
    P.O. Box 258
    Bigfork, MN 56628
    (218) 743-3177

    Editor and Author: Sally Sedgwick
    Photographs by Sally Sedgwick





    Wellness Notes Archives


  • CEO's Notes:
    There’s Blue Sky Ahead!

    Change at Bigfork Valley is alive and well. There are new faces, new doctors, new services, new equipment, new facilities and most importantly new patients.

    New patients that never visited Bigfork Valley are driving a long way to get services. Why do they drive to a remote village of all the places they could go? …Because we have something special to offer them – The Bigfork Valley Experience.

    We continue to have visitors touring our campus to view and learn our way of providing healthcare to our patients and services to our elders. These visitors come from around the country and from many organizations in our own state. The organizations visiting our campus range in size from very small to approximately 25 times our size and larger.

    We continue to do well financially. We are strong and getting stronger. We know who we are and where we’re going. Our board, physician and management teams lead with confidence and vision. Our employees are skilled and compassionate. Our model of healthcare delivery and elder services is a blend of the Eden model and our own employee philosophy and experience.

    The coupling of these complementary philosophies has resulted into what we’ve coined “The Bigfork Valley Experience.”




     
    SERVICES at Bigfork Valley

    Inpatient care
    Laboratory
    Radiology:
      X-ray,
      CT scans,
      mammography,
      bone densitometry,
      MRI
    Surgical services:
      orthopaedic,
      general,
      ophthalmology,
      urology
    Cardiac rehabilitation
    Rehabilitation services:
       chemotherapy
       occupational therapy
       physical therapy
       speech therapy
    Retail pharmacy
    Clinic services in:
      foot care,
      audiology,
      ophthalmology,
      orthopaedics,
      psychology,
      urology
    Child day care
    Adult Day Stay
    Home Care
    Long term care based on
      the Eden philosophy Assisted living
    Senior apartments
    Ambulance provided by: Bigfork Ambulance Service Association
    Air Ambulance provided by:
       Luke's One · St. Mary's Lifeflight,
       North Memorial Air Care