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Treasure Valley’s largest laundry is moving its operations this spring from a 10,000-foot basement on Jefferson Street to expansive new quarters on Federal Way. With the laundry will go a half-century tradition that had hospital laundry from all over town ...

The physician-owned Saltzer Medical Group is opening a new family practice clinic in Caldwell next summer. The Nampa-based company has hired two physicians from out of state for its clinic, which will be housed in offices already occupied by Saltzer ...

Health care access for the poor will increase significantly in Idaho if community health centers are successful in competing for funding under the Affordable Care Act. One Treasure Valley community that would see change is Middleton, where Terry Reilly Health ...

UPDATED (Updates to show Altrua plans to appeal) The Idaho Department of Insurance has ordered a faith-based “health share” company to cease doing business in Idaho. Austin, Texas-based Altrua HealthShare is a membership organization that bills itself as an alternative ...

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 ...

A Boise company that produces health magazines has teamed up with KTVB-TV to provide local health-oriented content for the television station’s website. Healthy Idaho is a two-person company that distributes 20,000 magazines each month to physician waiting rooms, hospitals, and ...

St. Luke’s Health System has bought Intermountain Orthopaedics, the largest orthopedics clinic in Idaho. The Boise-based health system acquired all the physical assets of Intermountain Orthopaedics and now directly employs the group’s 12 physicians, said St. Luke’s spokeswoman Beth Toal. ...

West Valley Medical Center in Caldwell is searching nationally for a new leader after CEO Kathy Moore left to take a job at St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center. Moore left the 100-bed West Valley Dec. 10. She starts at St. ...

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 ...

At 63, Steve Soran, who owns two restaurants and a catering company in Twin Falls, has a good reason to stay healthy. He pays $600 a month for a policy that won’t pay up unless he meets a $5,000 deductible. ...