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Earlier this year, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare contracted with Crush the Curve Idaho — a nonprofit organization formed to coordinate and conduct COVID-19 testing — to rapidly provide COVID-19 testing where it’s needed. But Crush the Curve Idaho ...

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Erin Simms is the new vice president, human resources, for St. Luke’s Health System. Simms joined St. Luke’s in 2013 and has been serving as interim vice president and chief human resources officer since February. Before taking on the interim ...

In a joint press conference on July 14, CEOs and chief medical officers of the eight largest health care providers in southwestern Idaho came together to talk about the increasing severity of the current spike in COVID-19 cases and what ...

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To examine whether Idaho businesses and community gatherings reopened too fast, the Idaho Business Review compared smart device mobility data provided by Google against the reported COVID-19 case data for Idaho from the coronavirus.idaho.gov website. The smart device mobility data ...

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Another big-box retailer is aiming to grab marketshare in the business of primary medical care. As an experiment, Walgreens and VillageMD, a doc-in-a-box business, opened drop-in physician offices inside five Walgreens pharmacies in the Houston area in April 2019. Each ...

Idaho will remain in the final stage of the Idaho Rebounds plan for another two weeks, announced Gov. Brad Little in a July 9 press conference. He also introduced the “Idaho Back to School Framework,” which is the state’s guidance for local ...

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For seven years in a row, West Valley Medical Center has once again been ranked in the 100 top hospitals in the country by the prestigious IBM Watson Health health care study. “Our continued recognition on this Top 100 list ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — For a time in Idaho, it seemed like the worst of the coronavirus pandemic could be over. After an initial onslaught of confirmed cases in the spring, by June numbers had dropped to a point that state leaders ...

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The respected IBM Watson Health organization has just named St. Luke’s as one of the 15 Top Health Systems in the country — and this year, added Saint Alphonsus Health System to the list. No other city in the country has ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The mayor of Idaho’s largest city said Thursday that she will sign a public health emergency order requiring face coverings in all indoor and outdoor public places. Boise Mayor Lauren McLean cited the significant increase in ...