This Boise nursing home to close after inspectors cite poor-quality care, patient harm John Sowell, The Idaho Statesman
Apr. 22 A Boise nursing home that has provided skilled nursing care and rehabilitation services for 64 years will close next month after a federal agency canceled its contract, citing operating deficiencies that sometimes harmed patients.
Residents and staff of the nonprofit Good Samaritan Society-Boise Village, located off West State Street at 3115 Sycamore Drive, were told Tuesday that the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services had terminated its contract and would no longer reimburse the 127-bed home for services after May 20. We know this is a significant loss for the community and for the residents who call Boise Village home and for the dedicated employees who provide high quality and compassionate care every day, Randy Fitzgerald, executive director of the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, which operates the home, s
Here’s how a Salt Lake City pharmacy played a key role in the execution of an Idaho serial killer
Lethal injection drugs have become a hot commodity, worth big money to states carrying out death sentences.
(Jessie L. Bonner | AP file photo) This Oct. 20, 2011, file photo shows the execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution as Security Institution Warden Randy Blades look on in Boise, Idaho. The Idaho Supreme Court recently ruled that records about lethal injection drugs used in executions are public. Among the information revealed was that a Salt Lake City pharmacy was the source for lethal drugs used in the Nov. 18, 2011, execution of Paul Ezra Rhoades.
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At the time, Idaho s care centers were averaging 321 new cases and about 22 fatalities each week. In early March, the two-week average of new cases in care facilities had fallen to about 70, and in the two-week period ending March 26, the average is near 40.
“We should be reading into this that this is additional evidence of how effective these vaccines are,” said Idaho Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. David Pate. He appears weekly on
The CDC reports around 78% of care facility residents nationally got their first jabs in December and January.
Idaho Health and Welfare says tracking how many care center residents here are vaccinated is hard because of patchwork distribution between state and federal vaccine sources.
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