Southwest Idaho medical group plans to cease seeing urgent-care sufferers at most clinics

Saltzer Well being plans to cease providing walk-in pressing care at most of its clinics in Ada and Canyon countiesciting a have to concentrate on major care because the area’s inhabitants grows.

Saltzer’s major care clinics in East Boise, Caldwell, North Meridian, South Meridian and North Nampa will as an alternative be restricted to sufferers with Saltzer’s household drugs suppliers.

The places can have longer hours on evenings and weekends after pressing care ends, on July 7, in keeping with a information launch. Additionally they can have extra same-day appointments, Saltzer mentioned.

The Boise, Caldwell and Meridian clinics opened in 2020 and 2021 to supply each pressing care and household medical care.

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Saltzer will proceed to function a 24-hour pressing care middle in Meridian — the area’s solely all-hours various to hospital emergency rooms. It additionally will maintain taking pressing care sufferers at its South Nampa clinicthe discharge mentioned.

Saltzer is one in all Idaho’s oldest and largest major care teams. It’s now owned by Intermountain Well being of Utah.

Intermountain’s information launch mentioned 67 individuals who workers Saltzer’s pressing care operations will probably be affected however that Saltzer “is working to search out new positions for a lot of of (them) throughout the expanded household drugs clinics.”

With the shift in sources, Saltzer is also ending its ambulance transportation and bodily remedy providers, the information launch mentioned. Different well being care suppliers within the space provide these providers, and sufferers weren’t utilizing them sufficient to proceed working them, the discharge mentioned.