A campus of comfort and compassionate care
Courtesy photo A sign on Hospice of North Idaho’s property on Prairie Avenue in Coeur d’Alene directs visitors to Schneidmiller House on one side of the campus and to the community building being constructed next door.
Hospice of North Idaho recently broke ground for a new administration building and community care center.
Young Construction of Coeur d’Alene is the contractor for the project located on Hospice of North Idaho’s Schneidmiller House property on Prairie Avenue in Coeur d’Alene.
In addition to staff office space, the new roughly 15,000-square-foot building will feature an entire wing for grief and loss support groups and private counseling, meeting rooms for professional development, and a 200-person capacity community event room.
Kim Ransier, Hospice of North Idaho’s executive director, said in a news release that having one campus where Hospice of North Idaho’s inpatient unit houses those in need of end-of-life care and where in-home hospice care nurses, social workers and the entire care team are next door has long been a vision for the nonprofit. Hospice of North Idaho’s offices and in-home care staff have operated for many years at a location on Government Way in Hayden.
Architect Steve Roth of Architects West developed the campus building plans in close
coordination with Hospice staff.
Construction is scheduled to be completed in December. The project is being funded, according to the news release, through “generous gifts from the community and by special funding and financing from the Idaho Health Facilities Authority and Mountain West Bank.”
Hospice of North Idaho’s mission to provide end-of-life care and grief support to everyone in Benewah, Shoshone and Kootenai counties is community-centered.
“We will be able to offer support groups with a designated space for our kids after-school grief program. Last year we hosted 120 support group meetings in our building and had to shuffle the space daily,” Ransier said in the release.
Georgianne Jessen, chair of the Hospice of North Idaho Board of Directors, said the new building will allow Hospice to host co-sponsored events with Kootenai Health, the Kroc Center or other area nonprofits.
“Many of our programs we offer free to the community could be held on our campus,” Jessen said.
Hospice of North Idaho has provided comfort care since 1981, and at the Schneidmiller House since 2011.
For more information about Hospice of North Idaho programs, care, or volunteer programs visit www.hospiceofnorthidaho.org or call (208) 772-7994.