The Blaine County School District has partnered with the South Central Public Health District and Luke’s Family Pharmacy to hold two upcoming … Read more
Blaine County’s COVID-19 risk level was determined to be “moderate” on Thursday, July 29, in an assessment conducted by the South Central Publ… Read more
A Twin Falls-based health-care organization is planning to open a medical, dental and behavioral health clinic in Bellevue later this year to … Read more
Texas country-rock group The Powell Brothers will bring their eclectic set of influences to Whiskey Jacques’ in Ketchum on Friday, July 30, fo… Read more
A Twin Falls-based health-care organization plans to open a medical, dental and behavioral health clinic in Bellevue to serve uninsured and un… Read more
An undisclosed number of staff at the Cove of Cascadia skilled nursing facility in Bellevue have tested positive for COVID-19, prompting an in… Read more
The South Central Public Health District is advising people to take precautions after a bat caught in Blaine County tested positive for rabies… Read more
With drought and hot temperatures prompting an early start to the wildfire season in the West, smoke is drifting across several states, includ… Read more
The St. Luke’s Health System is requiring all of its health-care providers and employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Read more
The Hailey City Council will reopen discussion today, Monday, July 12, on the city’s proposed 33-site campground in Croy Canyon during its reg… Read more
St. Luke’s Wood River will observe the following schedule at its family medicine clinics over the Fourth of July weekend: Read more
The American Red Cross is experiencing a severe blood shortage that is negatively affecting blood product availability across the country, the… Read more
Citing unseasonable fire danger and exceptional drought, Ketchum and Blaine County joined Hailey in banning fireworks this week. Read more
During June, The Advocates is organizing a fundraiser to create hope and help for victims of domestic abuse in Blaine County. Supporters of th… Read more
The nonprofit Hunger Coalition held a grand opening on Friday, June 4, debuting its four-acre Bloom Community Food Center in Bellevue with pub… Read more
The St. Luke’s Health System has added a new psychiatrist to its team of specialists in the Mental Health Services division of the St. Luke’s … Read more
An international nonprofit to provide free counseling services to first responders and their families has a new Blaine County-based chapter. Read more
Local COVID-19 infection rates remain low as Blaine County nears 80% vaccination among eligible residents. With Bellevue now the only local go… Read more
People in the Wood River Valley and other parts of rural Idaho who need emergency health care now have access to some of the same top health e… Read more
Throughout the winter and into the spring, The Senior Connection in Hailey has gotten around two calls per week inquiring about in-home care s… Read more
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare reported 209 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 statewide today, raising the total to 188… Read more
The Blaine County commissioners on Tuesday signed a proclamation recognizing May as Mental Health Awareness Month, following a year in which t… Read more
The Blaine County commissioners tentatively agreed this week to look into creating an advisory committee to discuss the funding ambulance serv… Read more
St. Luke’s is bringing a COVID-19 vaccine mobile unit to Blaine County. Read more
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare reported 210 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 statewide today, raising the total to 187… Read more
The Boise-based St. Luke’s Health System has been included on a prestigious list of the nation’s top 15 health systems for the eighth year in a row.
A proclamation signed by Hailey Mayor Martha Burke on Monday intends to shed more light on those in the community struggling with common mental health conditions that are often invisible to others.
The COVID Outreach Wood River testing program for people who are asymptomatic ends today, Thursday, April 15.
Mountain Rides’ fare-free pilot bus route to Twin Falls will run through the end of 2021, the organization announced on Friday after receiving a significant funding contribution from the St. Luke’s Wood River Foundation.
Your Health Idaho, the state health-insurance exchange, has extended its special enrollment period through April. It had previously been extended through March.
In the month of March, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare recorded 9,435 statewide confirmed and probable cases, compared to 8,297 in February. That amounts to an average of roughly five more cases per day in March than in February, since March is three days longer.
The St. Luke’s Health System and a group of partners have launched an ambitious six-month research project to study how COVID-19 affects some 600 people in Blaine County at increased risk of contracting the virus and of infecting other people.
This week, a year after Idaho recorded its first case of COVID-19 and a pandemic was declared in the United States, two senior St. Luke’s doctors reflected on efforts to combat the deadly coronavirus and how it impacted health care and thousands of Idaho families.
Nearly a year after Hailey resident Linda Hughes tested positive for COVID-19, her sense of smell has yet to return. Today, Hughes finds it impossible to distinguish between pleasant aromas—freshly brewed coffee, herbal teas and breakfast scrambles—and the smell of smoke.
In December of 2019, Allison Burns was working as a nurse manager for outpatient services at St. Luke’s Wood River Medical Center. She watched, like everyone else, as news of COVID-19 spread around the world, unaware that her life and work schedule would soon take a dramatic turn.
Following a significant drop in 2019, Idaho saw its highest recorded suicide rate in 2020, according to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s Violent Death Reporting System (VDRS).
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare reported 374 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 statewide today, raising the total to 171,836. Of those, an estimated 94,936 have recovered.
The state health-insurance exchange, Your Health Idaho, reopened Monday for Idahoans still seeking insurance for 2021.
As COVID-19 continues to impact people in Blaine County and across the United States, health officials are witnessing a positive development amid the pandemic: Cases of the flu are down significantly this season.
Blaine County’s rate of positive tests for COVID-19 has dropped significantly but the county remains at the “critical” risk level for the virus, a county risk assessment released Thursday states.
Idaho’s state health insurance exchange will open for a special enrollment period in March in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Your Health Idaho announced Monday. The enrollment period will allow uninsured Idahoans to sign up for health insurance coverage.
While a proposal to cement Idaho’s ban on marijuana and other psychoactive drugs in the state Constitution makes its way through the Statehouse, a bipartisan bill to legalize medical cannabis has emerged in the House of Representatives.
St. Luke’s is continuing to offer its informational Brown Bag Talks in a virtual format, in an effort to keep participants safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The St. Luke’s Health System was flooded with requests on the first day that the list of eligible recipients for COVID-19 vaccinations was expanded to include Idahoans over age 65 on Monday, and quickly filled all available appointments.
Blaine County escalated to the overall “critical” risk level for COVID-19 in a new assessment released Thursday, with the rate of new cases more than doubling in a one-week period.
The long-awaited COVID-19 vaccines are providing hope for many in the Wood River Valley, but some people in high-risk categories are rejecting it.
While doses of two federally approved COVID-19 vaccines continue to be administered in Idaho, Blaine County is seeing its case counts drop—but not enough to lower it out of the “critical” risk category for the potentially fatal virus.
Beginning with money provided to three local agricultural enterprises, a new program of the nonprofit Sun Valley Institute for Resilience will help businesses expand their “regenerative, sustainable and resilient practices,” the institute announced this month.
In a year that saw numerous changes and challenges in health care, the Wood River Valley lost the service of one of its most experienced—and beloved—doctors.
St. Luke’s Wood River health-care providers administered the initial doses of a COVID-19 vaccine to some front-line staff on Wednesday, as thousands of doses shipped to Idaho are gradually filtering to the first round of recipients.
A group of concerned parents got one step closer to realizing their dream of providing a stable residential home for intellectually disabled individuals with the purchase of a one-acre lot at Quigley farm this week.
Parents in the Wood River Valley facing a medical emergency with children have a place to go in Boise thanks to the Ronald McDonald House, a charitably funded home away from home for children in medical treatment and their families.
Business has been steady at Boulder Mountain Botanicals on Main Street in Hailey since it opened on Nov. 16. It’s the first retail store in Blaine County dedicated to the sale of products made from hemp, a close cousin of marijuana.
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