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Location:
Medical and Behavioral Health Clinic
1106 Ironwood Drive
208-292-0292
(Get Map & Directions)
Sage
Center, Memory Clinic
1800 N.
Lincoln Way, Suite 202
Located
in the Mapletree Professional Building
208-292-0303
(Get Map & Directions)
Dirne Counseling Center
916
Ironwood Drive
Upper
Level
208-292-0136
Dirne Dental Clinic
916 Ironwood Drive
Lower
Level
208-292-0697
(Get Map & Directions)
Business Annex
1104
Ironwood Drive
Lower
Level
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About Dirne Community Health Center
How it all started...
It all started in 1989 with the vision and passion of Lidwin
Dirne. Originally from Holland, and then Canada, Lidwin Dirne
came to Coeur d'Alene and was struck by the lack of access to
healthcare for under and uninsured families in Coeur d'Alene.
She helped start a volunteer-run free clinic in Coeur d'Alene
16 years ago to serve the uninsured. The clinic was open only
two nights a week, and sometimes only one doctor was available.
There were too many patients.
So the clinic board of directors sought and won federal
funding in 2003 to become a community health clinic under a
program designed to improve access to health care for people
without insurance. With a new personality, the Dirne Clinic,
which took on Lidwin's name in 1999, opened its doors five days
a week with a paid staff in February 2004.
(Some content for this section was
borrowed with permission from Cynthia Taggart's July 11, 2005
article in the Spokesman Review. The article describes the
history of the clinic and the challenges of serving Kootenai
County's uninsured and underinsured patients.
Read the full article.)
Dirne Clinic becomes Dirne Community Health Center
Dirne Community Health Center was designated as a FQHC
in February 2004. It includes:
- a primary medical clinic with 11 exam rooms,
providing approximately 1,200 medical visits monthly,
- a mental
health center, overseen by a LCSW,
- a cooperative network of local dentists who provide access for its patients who are
not insured, who are low income, and have emergency dental needs.
We at Dirne Community Health Center
strive to be your primary health center. We integrate our health
services to provide continuity of care. The need to
provide health services to low income and uninsured patients.
Want to know more
facts?
- Donna Austin
- Valerie Baird
- Carl Benscheidt
- Carmen Brochu-Goecke
- Shirley Burton
- Lidwin Dirne, Founder
- Steve Greene
- Toni Hackwith, Treasurer
- Linda Johann, Secretary
- Ken Korczyk, President
- Linda LaMott, Vice-President
- Norma Love
- Michele Sandberg
- Donna Shinn
- Frank Henderson, Ex-Officio
- Dennis Danielson, Ex-Officio
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