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Candidates run for nonfunctional Kootenai Hospital District board

by KAYE THORNBRUGH
Staff Writer | May 11, 2025 1:09 AM

COEUR d’ALENE — The winners of a race for three seats on the Kootenai Hospital District board of trustees will sit on a nonfunctional board with no assets or operations.

During the 2022 legislative session, state lawmakers unanimously approved a bill granting hospital districts the ability to transition to a nonprofit 501(c)(3) model. The law had been available to county hospitals since 1986. 

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