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Intermountain Healthcare has officially changed its name to Intermountain Health, following feedback from customers, patients and employees on their needs of a health system. The name change is intended to reflect an emphasis on keeping people healthy, according to the ...

A team of University of Idaho (U of I) Extension educators is looking for agricultural communities that are willing to host public discussions about mental health and the increased risk of depression and suicide in rural America. The goal is ...

Ashley Crafton, winner of the $50,000 Main Pitch Competition during Boise Entrepreneur Week 2022, is in a fight for life. That fight is guided by her desire to prevent preterm births and miscarriages using a cup she developed to reinforce ...

According to Beacon Cancer Care Founder and Chief Medical Officer Dr. David Bartels, radiation therapy is a service that patients and the care team have been requesting for quite some time. As a result, Beacon Cancer Care will soon be ...

MediGold, a part of the Trinity Health System, was originally created in 1997 to provide a cost-effective alternative Medicare Advantage option for Medicare beneficiaries. Operating under the name MediGold since then, Saint Alphonsus recently announced a rebranding. According to a ...

St. Luke’s Health System grew rapidly over the past decade — acquiring and making deals with Idaho and Oregon medical practices and hospitals. As it grew, St. Luke’s executives described a master plan to curb the costs of health care ...

For the first time in Idaho, Healthy.io is partnering with Blue Cross of Idaho to bring a kidney health testing kit into the state’s health care market.   Blue Cross of Idaho started offering that kit to its roughly 200 ...

Idaho ranks 51st in the nation in physicians per capita. John Huckabay wants to fix that.  According to the Association of American Medical Colleges State Physician Workforce Data Report released in January 2022, Idaho has the lowest number of active physicians ...

As more nurses leave their jobs in hospitals and health-care centers, foundations are pouring millions of dollars into efforts to ensure that more stay in the profession and get more out of the job than just the applause and pats ...

Switchboard Health is a new digital health startup that was launched in early November. Based in Boise, the company’s launch was announced by Route 66 Ventures, a Virginia-based health technology venture capital firm. The concept for Switchboard Health initially incubated ...