Clark Fork Valley Hospital places a high importance on maintaining and growing our relationships with other community organizations, groups and residents. We take pride in being an integral part of the communities we serve.
Links to the left are valuable resources you can access at any time. We encourage you to visit us regularly to keep up on hospital and community events, access the Plains Eye Cam and weather and also to visit direct links to local businesses, partners of ours, and more.
If you have event information or a community spotlight theme you would like to submit, please email them using the Contact Us page of this website.
Community Benefit
As a tax-exempt not-for-profit healthcare provider, it is a very important part of Clark Fork Valley Hospital’s mission to maximize and measure the benefits we provide to the communities we serve in Sanders County.
Some of the benefits we provide are more obvious and financial in nature, such as Charity assistance and sliding scale discounts to low income patients. Other community benefits are not as well known, but are nonetheless diverse. They are categorized as follows:
Community Health Services
Health education programs, community health screenings and health fairs
Community-based Clinic Services
Flu shot clinics and sports physicals
Health Professions Education & Workforce Development
Clinical training experience for student nurses and medical technologists
Subsidized Health Services
Those provided in the Emergency Room and our satellite clinics
Financial Contributions
Financial support for various local groups and activities
Community Building Activities
Community collaboration for Disaster and Emergency Planning as well as participation in various community activities such as Relay for Life and local events
Coalition Building
Participation in the Sanders County Transportation Task Force
Community Benefit Operations
Health e-Search health information library and e-newsletters and Video Conferencing
During 2008, CFVH Leadership staff tracked nearly 200 hours in time during work hours donated to various community activities. In addition, those same individuals identified nearly 700 hours of their own personal time supporting various community endeavors.