Saint Alphonsus

For 40 years, Boise has marked the start of the holiday season with Saint Alphonsus’ Festival of Trees.

October is breast cancer awareness month and new guidelines mean better rates of early detection

A panel discussion about the issues facing healthcare systems and how those issues are impacting care for Idahoans.

Over the last three years more than 5,000 people in Idaho have died due to COVID-19. Across the U.S. that number increases to more than one million. In order to commemorate those who were lost to the pandemic and the workers who helped care for them Saint Alphonsus Health System has created several memorial gardens to help provide a little bit of hope.

The Capitol Classic Children's Race in Boise encourages kids of all abilities to run for fun.

As our region deals with the highest number of COVID-19 cases we’ve seen since the pandemic started, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare activated crisis standards of care this morning for all of southern Idaho.

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.

Dr. Meghan McInerney, Critical Care Director at Saint Alphonsus Hospital in Boise: "We cannot continue to have the every single day increase numbers of COVID that we are seeing and have our health care system survive."

As of Thursday morning, the entire state of Idaho is now in crisis standards of care. These guidelines help medical professionals in hospitals decide who should get life saving care — and who may not with resources severely strained.

A surge in unvaccinated COVID-19 patients is straining Idaho hospitals, and their staff.