North Valley Hospital Board of Commissioners
Adam Tibbs - President - Commissioner district 5 at large
Hospital District Committees:
Finance
Building and Planning Committee
Pledge to Community: My pledge is to use common sense in my decision making, to be financially responsible and to continue to learn.
Professional Experience: I have spent mostof my professional career in management, sales, customer service, software support and agriculture.
Education: Graduated from Tonasket High School in 1993 and attended Bellevue Community College.
Outside Interests: Spending time with my family, traveling and sports.
Personal Information: I was born here at North Valley Hospital in 1975. I grew up on our family apple farm in Tonasket. After high school, I moved to Bellevue, Washington where I attended college. I lived and worked in the greater Seattle area for five years, moved to Central Washington where I lived for fourteen years, until returning home to manage our family farm.
Jerry Bradley - Vice PRESIDENT - commissioner district 2
Pledge to Community: To maintain an open minded perspective when making decisions affecting the hospital and community. Also, to keep improving relations between employees, administration, hospital, and our community a priority.
Professional Experience: Kenworth Truck Company for twenty years and now a self employed business owner.
Education: Tahoma High School.
Outside Interests: Family, Church, and outdoor activities.
Personal Information: Born in 1967, raised in the small town of Ravensdale in Western Washington. Married to the young lady I started dating while in high school, have two adult kids and one granddaughter.
Hospital District Committees:
Building and Planning Committee
Extended Care Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI)
Foundation
Dick Larson - Secretary - commissioner district 1
Pledge to community: To truly provide all encompassing healthcare, and to make as many services available as possible so that our community members don’t have to leave. I have personally had surgery at North Valley Hospital, and know the value to being able to be home in 15 minutes.
Professional Experience: I’ve been a pharmacist owner and operator for 35 years in Oroville. I am personally a stake holder in this hospital, and have always had a strong interest in keeping medical services accessible locally.
Outside Interests: Hunting, fishing, golf, and water sports.
Personal Information: Born at St. Martin’s hospital (now known as North Valley Hospital) in Tonasket in 1948. I was raised in Oroville and graduated from Oroville HS in 1966. Attended Eastern Washington University & graduated with a BA in psychology in 1970, & earned a BS in pharmacy in 1976 from North Dakota State University. My father originally owned the pharmacy in Oroville, & after college I moved home to take over the business in 1976, & I own and operate the Oroville Pharmacy to this day.
Hospital District Committees:
Medical Staff
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
Foundation
Vicki Lewis - Commissioner district 3
Pledge to Community: I will use my civilian/military education and experience to serve the citizens of North Valley Hospital District to the best of my ability.
Professional Experience: I have worked as a: nurse in civilian and military hospitals; a clinical specialist in critical care units; an instructor in LPN/AND/BSN and MSN nursing programs and a Director of Nursing Service. Served in the USAR as Chief of Clinical Instruction and in Desert Storm. Retired as Lt Colonel.
Education: Humboldt State College BSN, University of California San Francisco MSN and many hours of continuing education related to health care and leadership.
Outside Interests: Volunteer activities, hiking, gardening and “Random Acts of Kindness”.
Personal Information: Raised in a rural community on a dairy farm with three brothers and one sister. Married with a current family of my husband and three rescues, a dog and two cats.
Hospital District Committees:
Finance
Medical Staff
Long Range Focus
Safety
Stephanie steinman - commissioner district 4 at large
Hospital District Committees:
CQI
Extended Care QAPI
Long Range Focus
Pledge to Community: I pledge to use my experience working in healthcare as an RN and as a healthcare business owner to guide my decision making to ensure our hospital remains viable and provides quality services for the people of North Okanogan County.
Professional Experience: I have experience working as an RN in multiple settings including hospital, hospice, clinic & as a school nurse. Now as an owner of 2 independent pharmacies, I have also gained experience as a pharmacy technician and as a business owner of a healthcare business .
Education: University of Montana BA Psychology, Spokane Community College Associates Degree Nursing, Western Governors University BSN, some Master's degree coursework in Nursing Education and multiple continuous education hours in nursing and pharmacy.
Outside Interests: When I have free time I enjoy reading - I love to find a good book, fiction or nonfiction, that I can get lost in. I also enjoy spending time with my family and our three dogs doing outdoor activities like camping, hiking & boating.
Personal Information: Born in Deer Park, WA, I spent the first several years of my life living in small towns in Washington & Idaho and the small town life was ingrained in me. I graduated from Central Valley High School in Spokane Valley as a Valedictorian in 1995. Two years later I married my high school sweetheart and we moved to Missoula, MT for college. After we graduated we moved back to Spokane and had 2 kids. In 2015, we moved our family to Tonasket and then to Oroville in 2020. Our 2 kids are now grown and we focus much of our time on operating our 2 pharmacies and spending time with our dogs.