Kootenai Health leaders will not attend forum

Republican women's group sponsoring meeting Saturday

In a Nov. 9 letter to Mattare, Kootenai Health Trustee Katie Brodie and CEO Ness declined an invitation to attend Saturday’s forum. They wrote that discussing the situation publicly would be premature.

A time of recovery and rebuilding: Kootenai Health faces financial challenge head on

Kootenai Health is not for sale, nor is it on the brink of financial collapse. The hospital and health care system is, however, facing a significant financial challenge, one driven by a national health care staffing crisis that Kootenai Health CEO Jon Ness has been alerting the community to for months.