<p>Kootenai Health CEO Jon Ness speaks during the grand opening of Kootenai Health's expansion on Thursday. The 100,000-foot expansion offers a ten to twelve-percent increase in the number of beds at the hospital, will employ about 225 more employees, and features a new birthing center, neonatal intensive care unit and orthopedic care center.</p>
February 26, 2016
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Kootenai Health holds grand opening for east expansion
Constructed with 770 tons of steel, 2,267 light switches and enough electrical wire to stretch from Coeur d'Alene to Missoula, the east expansion of Kootenai Health in Coeur d'Alene is complete and officially opens March 15.