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Local News - Local - December 06, 2012
Ernest Health, Kootenai Health joint venture to develop Post Falls rehab hospital
KMC parent combines resources with Ernest Health for rehab facility

By Mike McLean
Of the Journal of Business

Ernest Health Inc., the Albuquerque, N.M.-based health care provider that operates an acute-care hospital in Post Falls, says it's partnering with Coeur d'Alene-based Kootenai Health, to construct a 30-bed rehabilitation hospital there that it expects will create 120 new jobs.

Construction is scheduled to start in the spring and to be completed in late 2013, says Linda Murphy, a Post Falls-based spokeswoman for Ernest Health.

A contractor hasn't been selected yet for...


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