Brownfield’s opens new Meridian office near St. Luke’s 
POSTED: Monday, June 6, 2011 at 02:49 PM PTBY: Jennifer Gonzalez
Tags: City of Meridian, Construction, development, Health Care
In an effort to be closer to the customers they serve, Brownfield’s Prosthetics & Orthotics has opened an office in Meridian.
Established in 1949, the Boise-based company recently moved into a new one-story building at 1912 E. Franklin Road, about a half mile from St. Luke’s Hospital. Construction started in January 2010, and wrapped up in [...]
Idaho must move from sickness care to health care
POSTED: Friday, March 18, 2011 at 06:44 AM PTBY: IBR Contributor
Tags: Health Care
Family physicians train for three years after medical school to learn everything from delivering babies to caring for people at the end of life. It’s a comprehensive scope of practice where the physician gets to know patients through caring for them over time. The patient’s health is the focus, not the episodic illness care that [...]
Recession reversed nursing shortage; higher-level nurses still needed
POSTED: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 12:23 PM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: Health Care, Idaho Department of Labor, St. Luke's Health System
The employment balance between available nurses and nursing jobs has swung in favor of employers.
A statewide shortage of registered nurses has eased a year longer than expected by the Idaho Department of Labor. But while hospitals have a ready supply of registered nurses, they still need more nurses with advanced degrees and licenses than they [...]
Health practitioners seek to take charge of ‘midlevel’ title
POSTED: Monday, January 31, 2011 at 03:34 PM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: Health Care, Idaho Academy of Family Physicians, Idaho Medical Association, Northwest Nazarene University, St. Luke's Health System
When Ted Epperly, president of the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians, hears medical staff described with the popular shorthand term “midlevel,” he winces.
“I try not to use the term,” said Epperly, a physician who runs the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho. “If I were one, I wouldn’t like that term either.”
The physician assistants and nurse practitioners [...]
Nampa home health company is banking on baby boomers
POSTED: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 08:52 AM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: Assisting Hands, elder care, Health Care
An at-home caregiving service that moved its headquarters to Boise in 2009 is banking on the baby boomers as it plans a nationwide expansion.
Assisting Hands, a Nampa-based franchise system, opened a half-dozen new offices last year around the country and expects to open a dozen this year, CEO Lane Kofoed said.
The 6-year-old company provides non-medical [...]
Legislation would require more clarity in medical titles
POSTED: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 08:28 AM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: Boise State University, Health Care, Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center
Heather Healy, director of nursing professional practice at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, plans to call herself “Dr. Healy” in some settings after she obtains her nursing doctorate.
But with patients, Healy said, she’ll always make it clear she’s a nurse, not a doctor.
“They usually call me, ‘Heather,’” said Healy, who is applying to take a [...]
Google, Microsoft take leap into health care
POSTED: Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 12:10 PM PTBY: Michelle Hicks
Tags: Health Care, Line of Communication, Michelle Hicks
Over the last year, Americans watched the health care debate and increased their understanding of the country’s health care issues. One piece of the complex health care puzzle is how to empower Americans to be better health care consumers. Employers are spending a fortune on health care and wellness programs because, in the long run, [...]
Study focuses on bringing rural clinics, physicians together
POSTED: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 09:48 AM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: Boise State University, Family Medicine Residency of Idaho, Health Care
Walter Knox Memorial Hospital in Emmett has a physician’s job open for the first time in a decade, and CEO Max Long knows he has to be careful how he fills it. Rural communities aren’t for everyone, and Long wants to hire someone who will stay for a long time.
So Long will be looking at [...]
Internal medicine residency program to double in size
POSTED: Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 08:43 AM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: Health Care, University of Washington Medical School Internal Medicine
A University of Washington Medical School Internal Medicine residency program in Boise will nearly double in size and increase its scope this year, adding eight new physicians who will train in Idaho for three years.
Program organizers hope the residents will stay in Idaho after their training. Ideally, those new doctors would fan out to the rural [...]
St. Luke’s, consulate team up to provide health information
POSTED: Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 04:15 PM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: Health Care, St. Luke's Health System
Idaho’s Mexican consulate is teaming up with St. Luke’s Health System to provide health information for visitors to the consulate’s office in Boise.
The new service, called a health window, is aimed at steering visitors to places where they can receive health testing or other care.
“Prevention in terms of health is by far better than dealing [...]
