General Facts
Founded in 1902, St. Luke’s mission is to improve the health of the people in our region by providing access to a full range of effective and efficient health care and related services, offered through a regional system. We will continue to fund our operations, our research, and our outreach programs from revenue and contributions while reinvesting resources back into the community.
St. Luke’s is a 501c3 federally recognized non-profit organization. As a system of community medical centers, St. Luke’s is guided by volunteer boards of directors, with all revenues going back to our regional mission in the form of services, facilities, personnel and equipment.
St. Luke’s is a health system serving the entire state of Idaho, eastern Oregon, and northern Nevada.
St. Luke's Facilities:
St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center is a 438-bed hospital in Boise.
St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center is a 144-bed hospital in Twin Falls.
St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center is a 152-bed hospital in Meridian.
St. Luke’s Wood River Medical Center is a 25-bed hospital in Ketchum.
St. Luke's Eagle Medical Plaza features urgent care, medical imaging, family health and OB/GYN practitioners, and more.
St. Luke’s Mountain States Tumor Institute (MSTI) has sites in Boise, Fruitland, Meridian, Nampa, and Twin Falls.
St. Luke’s Internal Medicine has sites located in central Boise, east Boise, west Boise, Meridian, and Ketchum.
St. Luke's Medical Imaging has sites in Boise, Eagle, Meridian, Ketchum, and Twin Falls.
St. Luke’s Breast Cancer Detection Centers are located in Ada County, Canyon County, Elmore County, and Blaine County.
Number of St. Luke’s Health System employees = 7,400
Number of physicians =970 (includes Boise, Ketchum, Meridian, and Twin Falls)
St. Luke’s Health System performed 30,346 surgical procedures last year*
7,832 babies were born at St. Luke's hospitals last year*
40,493 inpatients were served at St. Luke's hospitals last year*
There were 125,230 visits to the St. Luke's Emergency Departments last year*
616,994 outpatients were served at St. Luke's hospitals last year*
St. Luke’s offers highly specialized regional expertise in the areas of cancer care, cardiac services, obstetrics/newborn and children’s services.
St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center was one of Mercer/HCIA’s top 100 hospitals in 1993, 1994 and 1995 - one of the few hospitals nationwide to receive this recognition three years consecutively. The award was also received in 1999.
St. Luke’s has been recognized as Idaho’s preferred hospital with the Consumer’s Choice Award from National Research Corporation. This honor has been received six years in a row – 2000 - 2005.
St. Luke’s Medical Centers in Boise and Meridian were designated Magnet hospitals in 2002 and re-designated in 2006.
St. Luke’s Heart Institute provides more heart services and procedures than any other hospital in Idaho.
St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital cares for more than 50,000 different children each year.
- Idaho’s 1st Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), 1970
- Idaho’s 1st and only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), 1985
- Idaho’s largest dedicated pediatric care unit, 33 beds
- Children’s Specialty Center, pediatric outpatient services, 25,000 visits a year
- Only Idaho hospital (and the first hospital nationally) to be affiliated with the Children’s Miracle Network (CMN)
- Only Idaho hospital affiliated with the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI)
Since St. Luke’s Mountain States Tumor Institute (MSTI) opened its doors in 1969 it has become Idaho’s largest provider of cancer care services, administering to approximately 400 patients each day, with more than 3,200 new patients treated last year alone. In the thirty-seven years of cancer care at MSTI, more than 45,000 patients have been treated.
In 2006, St. Luke’s MSTI was one of 12 community oncology practices in the country to receive honors from the American Society of Clinical Oncology for efforts to improve the care of people with cancer through participation in clinical trials, which are research studies conducted with patients that are used to evaluate a new treatment, or drug, and develop better ways to treat individuals with a specific disease. As a commitment to providing patients with the most recent developments in cancer therapy and in an effort to advance the treatment of common malignancies, St. Luke’s MSTI participates in more than 100 clinical trials that treat many different cancer types including pediatric malignancies, breast, lung, colon, and pancreatic cancers.
* Represents Fiscal
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