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The Idaho Hospital Association is running its largest political campaign ever to support HJR4, a ballot measure that would affect how Idaho’s public hospitals can borrow money. IHA spent $22,193 campaigning as of Oct. 10, according to papers filed with ...

A northern Idaho American Indian tribe is getting nearly $12 million from the federal government to help it build a new hospital. The Coeur d’Alene Tribe in Plummer plans to use the money to expand the Benewah Medical Center. It ...

Pay, time-off policies and other programs have put Kootenai Health in Coeur d’Alene and Idaho Emergency Physicians in Boise on Modern Healthcare‘s Best Places to Work in Healthcare list. Modern Healthcare magazine surveyed hospitals on traditional indicators like benefits and ...

St. Luke Health System and the North Canyon Medical Center board are carrying out a national search for a new hospital chief to replace CEO Earl Fitzpatrick, who was fired earlier this month. Fitzpatrick was employed by the Boise-based St. ...

After Dave Silva, a business owner in Boise, saw his company insurance premiums jump by more than 20 percent two years in a row, he took matters into his own hands and asked the local president of the insurer for ...

J. Robert Polk, the chief medical officer at Saint Alphonsus’ Boise hospital, remembers telling patients as an intern at Vanderbilt University that it would be better all around if they kept their stay in the hospital as short as possible. ...

Independent hospitals have been absorbed so rapidly into Idaho’s two largest health systems in the last few years that sometimes West Valley Medical Center, a 100-bed hospital in Caldwell, gets swept up in rumors that it, too, has been sold. ...

The 25-bed Grande Rond Hospital in Oregon has requested proposals from the St. Luke’s and Saint Alphonsus Health Systems for partnerships. The two health systems have until Oct. 15 to submit proposals, said Lynn Harris, DMD, the chairman of the ...

IDAHO BUSINESS REVIEW’S 4 THIRD QUARTER ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION 5 ON 6 HEALTH CARE REFORM 7 8 9 TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS 10 11 12 Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2009 13 Time: 7:30 a.m. 14 Place: Legacy Pointe University of Idaho 15 ...

Hospitals in Ontario and Baker City, Ore., and Nampa will change their names Sept. 15 to reflect their new affiliation with Saint Alphonsus Health System. Mercy Medical Center in Nampa will become Saint Alphonsus Medical Center – Nampa. Mercy North ...