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		<title>Brownfield&#8217;s opens new Meridian office near St. Luke&#8217;s&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Gonzalez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to be closer to the customers they serve, Brownfield&#8217;s Prosthetics &#38; 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&#8217;s Hospital. Construction started in January 2010, and wrapped up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho must move from sickness care to health care</title>
		<link>http://idahobusinessreview.com/2011/03/18/idaho-must-move-from-sickness-care-to-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s a comprehensive scope of practice where the physician gets to know patients through caring for them over time. The patient&#8217;s health is the focus, not the episodic illness care that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recession reversed nursing shortage; higher-level nurses still needed&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Wallace Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health practitioners seek to take charge of &#8216;midlevel&#8217; title&#160;</title>
		<link>http://idahobusinessreview.com/2011/01/31/health-practitioners-seek-to-take-charge-of-midlevel-wording/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Wallace Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Ted Epperly, president of the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians, hears medical staff described with the popular shorthand term &#8220;midlevel,&#8221; he winces. &#8220;I try not to use the term,&#8221; said Epperly, a physician who runs the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho. &#8220;If I were one, I wouldn&#8217;t like that term either.&#8221; The physician assistants and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nampa home health company is banking on baby boomers&#160;</title>
		<link>http://idahobusinessreview.com/2011/01/11/nampa-home-health-company-is-banking-on-baby-boomers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Wallace Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislation would require more clarity in medical titles&#160;</title>
		<link>http://idahobusinessreview.com/2010/12/22/legislation-would-require-more-clarity-in-medical-titles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Wallace Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heather Healy, director of nursing professional practice at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, plans to call herself &#8220;Dr. Healy&#8221; in some settings after she obtains her nursing doctorate. But with patients, Healy said, she&#8217;ll always make it clear she&#8217;s a nurse, not a doctor. &#8220;They usually call me, &#8216;Heather,&#8217;&#8221; said Healy, who is applying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google, Microsoft take leap into health care</title>
		<link>http://idahobusinessreview.com/2010/12/02/google-microsoft-take-leap-into-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Hicks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last year, Americans watched the health care debate and increased their understanding of the country&#8217;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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study focuses on bringing rural clinics, physicians together&#160;</title>
		<link>http://idahobusinessreview.com/2010/11/30/study-focuses-on-bringing-rural-clinics-physicians-together/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Wallace Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  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&#8217;t for everyone, and Long wants to hire someone who will stay for a long time. So Long will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internal medicine residency program to double in size&#160;</title>
		<link>http://idahobusinessreview.com/2010/11/18/internal-medicine-residency-program-to-double-in-size/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Wallace Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Luke&#8217;s, consulate team up to provide health information</title>
		<link>http://idahobusinessreview.com/2010/11/11/st-lukes-consulate-team-up-to-provide-health-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Wallace Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Idaho&#8217;s Mexican consulate is teaming up with St. Luke&#8217;s Health System to provide health information for visitors to the consulate&#8217;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. &#8220;Prevention in terms of health is by far better [...]]]></description>
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