Hospital

Author of the book “Sisters of Mokama" joins Idaho Matters to talk about her process for researching Nazareth Hospital and the most surprising things she learned along the way.

The number of COVID patients needing hospitalization is down slightly, but there’s still a long way to go before the Idaho hospitals are operating normally again.

As record numbers of COVID-19 patients — most of them unvaccinated — show up for treatment in Idaho hospitals, it’s often nurses and doctors who bear the brunt of the emotional toll.

Idaho’s hospitals are seeing COVID-19 surges that are approaching levels reached last winter, when the state nearly activated crisis standards of care.

Idaho’s largest hospital systems predicted they might need to ration health care before the end of 2020, but they haven’t reached that point yet.COVID-19…

Hospitals continue to fill up across the Mountain West, and that means some patients may have nowhere to go.Some Idaho doctors expect to start rationing…

Minidoka Memorial is a 17-bed county-owned hospital in Rupert, along the Snake River Plain. Emergency physician Dr. David Wageman took his shift there…

Utah has a number of major medical facilities that often take patients from all over the Mountain West. But the state is nearing a breaking point: too…

An NPR data analysis finds that hospital systems in Louisiana, Idaho and Washington state have had to shuffle patients to try to get everyone the care they need.

Over the last two weeks, 89 people have been hospitalized for the coronavirus. Dr. Joshua Kern, Vice President of Medical Affairs for St. Luke’s said…