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National Men’s Health Week a Chance to Take Stock
It’s National Men’s Health Week, and Father’s Day Sunday. Us dads always need new ties! Most importantly, we need our health. A lot of people count on us. I have asked Dr. Steve Montamat to share what...
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What Michael Douglas Didn’t Tell You About HPV
There has been much media attention paid to celebrities’ health issues recently, with Angelina Jolie’s revelation about her genetic risk for breast cancer and Michael Douglas’ remarks regarding his...
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‘TEAMwork is spreading …’
St. Luke’s has adopted lean principles, which we have branded as TEAMwork: Timely, Effective, Accountable, and Measureable work. Our System-wide goals this year are to create an exceptional patient...
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Football Coach Visits St. Luke’s to Cheer on a Winning Cause
Coach Chuck Pagano checks out a JoyJar. An inspiring coach with roots in Idaho visited St. Luke’s earlier this week to root on a cause he holds dear. Chuck Pagano, head coach of the NFL’s Indianapolis...
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Working with Partners to Transform Health Care
One of St. Luke’s strengths is in recognizing the value of partnerships and being able to work collaboratively to solve very challenging problems in health care. We recognize the importance of working...
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A Better Way to Bill: iVinci and St. Luke’s
You don’t hear too many stories about hospitals and health systems working to improve their billing, but here is one! St. Luke’s Health System Chief Financial Officer Jeff Taylor has brought on...
View ArticleThanks to St. Luke’s eICU Team!
Editor’s note: Following is a letter of appreciation sent by St. Luke’s Health System President and CEO Dr. David Pate to the team of St. Luke’s physicians who have worked to establish our new...
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Seventh Anniversary: ‘St. Luke’s is used to making history …’
Although our roots go back more than 100 years, to the beginning of St. Luke’s Hospital, we are very young as a health system. We became a system in 2006 due to the tremendous vision and foresight of...
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St. Luke’s and Saltzer ‘absolutely the right thing to do …’
I knew when I took this job that collaboration with community and other health organizations and partnerships with physicians were strategic advantages that St. Luke’s has in the region. St. Luke’s is...
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Air St. Luke’s: ‘We want to be the best.’
One of the first decisions I was asked to make when I got to St. Luke’s was whether we should continue to operate Air St. Luke’s. I gave it a lot of thought and in the end, I concluded that the...
View ArticleNavigating the Health Law
Editor’s note: The article that follows originally appeared as a column in the Idaho Statesman’s Business Insider in June. There is plenty for everyone to dislike about the health care reform law, but...
View ArticlePopulation Health Management: ‘… take health care to where people are …’
Watch this short video to learn more about how St. Luke’s anticipates our communities’ health needs in the future.
View ArticleBumps in the Road for Obamacare
Editor’s note: A shorter version of this opinion piece appeared under a different title in the Idaho Statesman’s Sunday editorial section. The Obama administration recently decided to delay one...
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Q and A on St. Luke’s Happenings
Click to listen in on Dr. Pate’s recent conversation with St. Luke’s employees.
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‘What myStLuke’s has made possible …’
I have asked Dr. Marc Chasin, VP and chief medical information officer who is also serving as our interim chief information officer, to write today’s post as my guest blogger and to provide you with an...
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St. Luke’s MSTI’s Spirit of Innovation
Innovation is critical to our success in transforming health care, and one of our leaders in innovation is St. Luke’s Mountain States Tumor Institute (MSTI), our distinguished community cancer program....
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Smart Blood Use at St. Luke’s: Better for Patients and the Community
St. Luke’s is making great progress toward our Triple Aim goals of better health, better care, and lower costs. Transformation isn’t simple; it has to happen on multiple fronts and involve all of our...
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Kristin Armstrong, Olympian and St. Luke’s Team Member
Those who know me know that I have not been blessed with athletic aptitude or ability. In junior high, I was among the first cuts in tryouts for the baseball and basketball teams. I resigned myself to...
View ArticleTaking the Pulse of the People: What’s on the Blog
I want to make sure my blog is meeting the needs of readers and that I’m answering the questions you have and want answers to. I’d like to get your ideas through a short poll. To get started, click...
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St. Luke’s eICU ‘the wave of the future …’
I am often asked what the benefits are to being part of, or receiving care from, a healthcare system. Here, Ken Dey, media manager for St. Luke’s Health System, reports on a great example of one such...
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