Saint Alphonsus

May 22, 2026

Saint Alphonsus kids run returns to Boise

Saint Alphonsus and Treasure Valley Family YMCA co-sponsor the 42nd annual Capitol Classic Kids Run in Boise, expecting over 1,000 participants ages 15 and younger.

From right: The panelists, Corey Surber, Brennan Summers, Wendi Secrist, Mollie McCarty and Lisa Raye Anderson, listen as an audience member asks a question during the question-and-answer portion of the Breakfast Series event on April 9, 2026, at The Grove Hotel in downtown Boise. (PHOTO: MARC LUTZ, IBR)
Apr 24, 2026

Budget cuts, education funding and issues highlight panel discussion on 2026 legislative session

Idaho business leaders discuss 2026 legislative session impacts on education funding, Medicaid changes, and transportation infrastructure challenges.

Apr 13, 2026

Feed your brain with these life-saving hacks

Idaho business leaders and experts discuss how legislation affects healthcare, education, and workforce development at the annual Breakfast Series.

The exterior of the new Saint Alphonsus Medical Plaza in Caldwell. (PHOTO: LOMBROWSKI PHOTOGRAPHY, LLC)
Dec 4, 2025

New Saint Alphonsus facility brings 15 areas of medicine to Caldwell residents

Saint Alphonsus opens Caldwell Health Plaza, offering primary and specialty care to support the rapidly growing Treasure Valley community.

Drs. Walsh, Heslop, Taylor and Farivar are part of the team at Saint Alphonsus that earned a three-star rating from national organizations focused on heart procedures. (PHOTO: SAINT ALPHONSUS)
Oct 17, 2025

Boise surgical program receives 3-star rating for second year in a row

Saint Alphonsus in Boise earned a three-star TAVR ranking from STS and ACC, placing it among the nation’s top heart programs for excellence in care.

Sean Hancock, left, founder of Recycled Minds improvisation group, and Dr. Kara Kuntz, director of the Saint Alphonsus Memory Center, are two of the collaborators involved in the Improv to Improve Dementia Care program. (PHOTO: MARC LUTZ, IBR)
Aug 19, 2025

Caregivers learn to care for themselves through improv program

Sometimes, it comes down to a change of mindset and adding tools to the caregiving toolbelt.

The new Nampa residency program developed by Saint Alphonsus seeks to bring students from schools from Idaho and neighboring states. It has also begun networking nationwide to seek interested future physicians. (PHOTO: SAINT ALPHONSUS)
Jun 25, 2025

Newest residency program to open July 1 in Nampa

The new program is one of nine residency programs in Idaho and is the first for Saint Alphonsus in family medicine.

Dr. Jennifer Pierce, a professor at Boise State University’s Department of Geoscience and School of the Environment, gives an overview of climate change and how it’s affecting the region and the world, using her scarf as an illustration. (PHOTO: MARC LUTZ, IBR)
May 28, 2025

Symposium tackles health and legislative issues around climate change … and how businesses can help

The symposium is the perfect storm of ideas brought together by Dr. Wesley Pidcock, a pulmonologist at Saint Alphonsus in Nampa, Dr. Kathryn Conlon, an assistant professor with University of California, Davis, specializing in environmental and occupational epidemiology, and Dr. Ethan Sims, an emergency medical specialist with St. Luke’s in Nampa and the founder of the Idaho Clinicians for Climat[...]

The new Nampa residency program developed by Saint Alphonsus seeks to bring students from schools from Idaho and neighboring states. It has also begun networking nationwide to seek interested future physicians. (PHOTO: SAINT ALPHONSUS)
Apr 28, 2025

New Nampa residency program to train six physicians with inaugural year

In that report, the HRSA forecasted that there will be a shortage of about 87,150 full-time primary care physicians across the country by 2037.

David McFayden, president and CEO of Saint Alphonsus, speaks to the audience at the Boise Metro Chamber’s CEO and Business Leader Speaker Series on March 4. (PHOTO: MARC LUTZ, IBR)
Mar 17, 2025

Saint Alphonsus CEO shares about state of health care, need for medical personnel in Idaho

McFayden oversees five hospitals and three hospitals throughout Idaho, Oregon and California, with a total staff of 9,700 employees and an annual net revenue of $2.1 billion.

In this 2012 file photo, Cami Reeder, a longtime WinCo employee, helps customers check out. WinCo was recently ranked as one of the nation's best companies by employees in Forbes magazine. (FILE PHOTO: GLENN LANDBERG)
Feb 25, 2025

These Idaho companies landed on Forbes ‘best’ lists

In their findings, employees placed the most value on compensation, employee development and advancement, meaningful work, supportive colleagues and workplace well-being and flexibility.

Nat'e Guyton
Feb 5, 2025

New president of Boise medical center has extensive background in health care

In her previous position, she had an integral role in the construction of a 145,000-square-foot facility dedicated to women’s services, emergency services and trauma services.


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