Health Care

Access to health care services in Idaho is getting harder as a shortage of doctors and other health workers makes getting a timely appointment difficult. However, Optum Idaho is trying to increase access to primary health care and routine medical tests with its mobile clinics, which come to central locations in four Idaho counties every month, and offer easy access to some standard medical checks.

Over100,000 people have been dropped from Idaho's Medicaid program in the last four months. Idaho Matters takes a look at what's happening to people that are kicked off their plan and what's next.

Across the country, health care professionals are experiencing burnout. Idaho Mattes finds out what's contributing to this problem and what can be done to help prevent it.

Universities and professional schools across the country have been reacting to the Supreme Court’s recent decision rejecting affirmative action. For Marc Kahn, dean of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ medical school, the decision wasn’t a surprise. But he does worry that it could discourage potential medical school applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.

Here in Idaho not every family has easy access to a doctor. This can create a gap, leaving children without regular medical care. That's why St. Luke's has stocked a mobile care clinic with everything it needs to hit the road and bring the health professionals to the kids that need them most.

Local students are raising money to help trans minors receive gender affirming care out of state ahead of a newly passed law banning doctors in Idaho from providing puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries to trans patients under 18.

One of the most typical treatments for asthma may contribute to the environmental conditions that make it tougher to breathe.

A new year means new clinics in Homedale and Meridian for Terry Reilly Health Services.

Just over 50 years ago, Canyon County farmworkers living in sub-standard conditions found much-needed care in a Nampa home. It was there that Terry and Rosie Reilly turned what they called a “House of the People” into a neighborhood clinic.

There are dozens of details within our day-to-day lives that we don’t write down or share with family members, which can make a death or serious illness even more traumatic for those we love. That's why making a plan for those close to you is important.