Success Stories by State: Idaho

• North Idaho Partners in Care
  July 2009
  This project used a mobile clinic to reach remote, underserved rural areas in the region. The project has emerged as a model of community cooperation and persistence in addressing unmet health care needs in a large, rural, underserved area.
• Protecting the Golden Hour
  May 2009
  The main purpose of the Protecting the Golden Hour project was to develop and implement an adaptable, ongoing system of training, coordination, and accountability among 18 rural emergency medical service (EMS) units in Region 2.
• Bear Lake Memorial Hospital, Montpelier
  July 2008
  In cooperation with community and regional organizations, Bear Lake has been successful in strengthening the economy of Southeast Idaho and expanding the availability of modern, high quality health care throughout a very large service area.
• EMS Co-op Helps Rural Providers
  September 2007
  Using the power of group purchasing within a cooperative structure, the North Central EMS Cooperative (NCEMSC) is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) cooperative developed to serve Minnesota and surrounding states.
• Leadership Development Services
  August 2007
  The Public Hospital Cooperative (PHC) and its formal Leadership Development committee have developed the Leadership Development Series, which focuses on education for hospitals, clinics, and long-term care unit managers.
• EMS Live @ Nite
  June 2007
  EMS Live @ Nite is an interactive video conferencing program to help educate volunteer emergency medical services personnel who don’t have easy access to training sites.
• Angel Flight West: A Higher Level of Kindness
  June 2007
  Angel Flight West provides free, private air transportation for people with medical and other needs.
• Rural Chronically Ill Women: Online Support Network (aka "Women to Women")
  April 2007
  The Women to Women Project (WTW) aims to help isolated rural women with chronic illnesses adapt more successfully to living with their conditions in the face of limited access to health information and services.
• Accommodation, Collaboration for Community Education about Services for Seniors
  January 2007
  The goal of ACCESS to increase access to medical care and social services for seniors in the rural areas of Eastern Washington in Whitman County and North Central Idaho in Latah County.
• Healthy Families Active Youth Rural Health Care Services Outreach Project
  January 2007
  Healthy Families Active Youth is a health promotion and fitness project that targeted elementary school children and their parents in two towns in rural southwest Idaho to prevent and treat pediatric obesity.