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POST FALLS – Northwest Specialty Hospital-affiliated doctors have begun seeing patients at its new Northwest Endoscopy Center. The nearly 9,000-square-foot addition to the hospital has two procedure rooms, one exam room and eight pre-operative and post-anesthesia care unit bays, according ...

FRUITLAND – Cancer treatment is a traumatic experience under the best circumstances – add in a long commute, and it can become overwhelming. In September, St. Luke’s opened the Fruitland Respite House to help ease this burden. The facility lodges patients from ...

MERIDIAN – Students training in the health sciences field at Idaho State University’s campus in the Treasure Valley will be able to expand their knowledge and skills this semester, thanks to some construction that recently wrapped up. The new digs ...

POST FALLS – Northwest Specialty Hospital has expanded into a new service line with the opening of North Idaho’s first bone health clinic. With a growing senior population in the area, the hospital said an increase in injuries – especially ...

Long-time health care executive Drew Hobby has ambitious goals. He’s tasked with one of Blue Cross of Idaho’s top strategic priorities: make health care more affordable for clients and members. His efforts are showing results. In 2019, Blue Cross of ...

To keep pace with the demand for its services, the Cancer Care Center at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center recently opened its newly expanded and renovated Chemotherapy Infusion Room. The new outpatient facility more than doubles the square footage of ...

When Lucia Carbajal was growing up in Weiser, the town had only one medical provider who spoke Spanish. Not much has changed since. Carbajal, a medical student, wants to help ease that shortage. Carbajal and other medical students taking part in ...

REXBURG – California-based Ensign Group Inc. said Sept 1 it bought a skilled nursing facility in Rexburg for an undisclosed price. The Idaho property is Temple View Transitional Care Center, a 119-bed facility. The seller was not named. In a ...

Linda Akike came to Boise from the Republic of Congo. She always dreamed of being a nurse, so when she heard she could enroll in a program that may lead to a full-time job at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — When Brett Nelson started at the Behavioral Health Center in 2002, he said the shortage of therapists in the state made it difficult for the center to ensure further treatment for patients after they left ...