Dr. Patrick Kinney, who spends many of his days and nights in the E.R. at St. Luke’s McCall Medical Center, has the skill and privilege of delivering babies but also faces the sadness of watching patients die due to COVID-19, has seen three primary stages of COVID vaccines.
Idaho hospitals are struggling to find enough staff in the latest pandemic surge. For health care facilities in expensive tourist areas, housing is the biggest challenge to finding new staff, according to administrators.