Kootenai Health named "Great Workplace" for the third year in a row

For the third year in a row, Kootenai County’s largest employer was named a Gallup Great Workplace, recognizing Kootenai Health as one of the most engaged and productive workforces in the world. The award, created by Gallup, Inc., recognizes organizations for their ability to create engaged workplace cultures and the unique approaches organizations take to achieve engagement success.

In addition to Gallup’s recognition, Kootenai was also named on the "150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare" list by Becker's Healthcare for a second time. Becker’s Healthcare highlights hospitals, health systems, and health care companies that promote diversity within the workforce, employee engagement and professional growth. Many members of the list offer unique wellness and personal benefits to ensure employees strike a positive work/life balance. They also emphasize recognition programs to celebrate employees’ accomplishments.

“We are honored to be recognized for creating an environment that encourages employees to do their best work every day,” Dan Klocko, Kootenai Health Executive Vice President of Human Resources, said. “It all circles back to providing quality health care to our community. When employees are connected to, and take pride in their work, it creates better outcomes for our patients.”

Gallup defines engaged employees as involved in, enthusiastic about and committed to their work and workplace. As a result, engaged employees help lead their company to greater levels of performance. Gallup research has consistently found that engaged employees produce better business outcomes than other employees.

The organizations featured on Becker’s Top Places to Work list offer benefits and opportunities for employees to build successful careers above and beyond the average health care provider or company; they encourage professional development and promote leadership from within. In addition to providing a competitive benefits and vacation package, many members of this list support volunteerism and organize community outreach activities.

Kootenai Health’s commitment to engagement is a cultural point of pride for employees. The employees and leadership at Kootenai understand when employees are engaged, they are passionate and creative, and their enthusiasm fuels growth and innovation. These employees are emotionally connected to their work and deeply invested in their company’s future. As a result, they provide superior patient care.

“Research consistently shows engaged employees produce better outcomes across all industries,” Jon Ness, Kootenai Health CEO said. “For us, these outcomes are transferred to our patients who benefit most from having engaged, compassionate health providers.”

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About Kootenai Health

Kootenai Health is a regional medical center consisting of a 292-bed community-owned hospital, with over 200 employed Kootenai Clinic providers across 21 specialties, including a family physician residency program. Kootenai Health is also the largest employer in northern Idaho, with over 3,000 employees.

About Gallup

Gallup, Inc. is an American research-based, global performance-management consulting company. The company is known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide. Some of Gallup's stated key practice areas are employee engagement, customer engagement, talent management, and well-being.

The Gallup Great Workplace Award honors a select group of organizations that create an engaged workplace culture by investing time and resources to enhance the workplace experiences of their leaders, managers and front-line employees.

About Becker’s Healthcare

Becker's Healthcare is the leading source of cutting-edge business and legal information for healthcare industry leaders. Becker’s Healthcare produces five industry-leading trade publications.