Barb Rahier

Bigfork Valley

Bigfork Valley is a 20 bed critical access hospital located in the woods of northern Minnesota, right outside Bigfork (pop. 469), Bigfork Valley is nationally known for offering a great patient experience along with an excellent facility and a top workplace environment for its 250+ employees, with a priority on developing quality medical skills. Our Vision? To provide the highest quality health care experience to every life we touch. Our federal hospital patient satisfaction survey puts us consistently at or near the top of Minnesota's reporting hospitals. Our providers are part of Scenic Rivers Health Services' onsite medical clinic with five family practitioners who all live locally and staff our emergency department 24/7 with physician coverage. When patients come to Bigfork Valley, they can expect quality diagnostics with extensive imaging and laboratory equipment, a surgery center that supports hip and knee replacement surgery as well as general surgeries and chronic pain management, and rehab physical and occupational therapists who work closely with the patient's medical team. A retail pharmacy and chiropractic clinic are located in the facility as well as specialty care including orthopedics, wound care, podiatry, and other specialists through the Specialty Clinic and Specialty Clinic West located on the Bigfork Valley campus. For visitors, there is the Wanigan – a cafeteria open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. with hot lunch in the middle of the day and a 24/7 community membership fitness center with a daily option. The medical campus at Bigfork Valley also supports a continuum of elder care and living options from senior apartments and Twin Homes, assisted living and a nursing home, Tamarack Lodge. Aspen Circle, memory care, is a specially designed building offering quality of life for residents with dementia.