Hospitals
Idaho
Saint
Alphonsus Regional Medical Center
Boise, Idaho (founded 1894)
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center serves metropolitan
Boise and nearly 280,000 people in outlying rural communities
in a three-state area with its Life Flight air medical transport
service. The medical center operates a physician-hospital
organization and a management services organization. Saint
Alphonsus was a pioneer in trauma services and is the designated
trauma center for the region. Its other centers of excellence
include the Heart Center, Cancer Treatment Center, Orthopaedic
Institute, Idaho Neurological Institute, urgent care centers,
and women's and children's services including a Family Maternity
Center. In addition, Saint Alphonsus has a management contract
with four rural hospitals.
Since 1994, the medical center has operated Project Haiti,
a program which provides ongoing support to a pediatric hospital
and orphanage in Port-au-Prince.
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