Sharon Fisher Not surprisingly, it’s been a big year for hospitals and health care facilities, which is why our Focus this week on that subject is so timely. Our intrepid reporter Catie Clark has been covering the problems that rural Idaho hospitals have been having. She did that again this week, talking about how the Caribou Memorial Hospital in Soda Springs has had to shut down its skilled nursing facility to help the hospital itself survive, as well as spinning itself off into a nonprofit. Catie also wrote about a rebuild of the St. Luke’s Elmore long-term care facility, how Portneuf Medical Center is building a medical plaza inside the Northgate master-planned community in Pocatello and how Saint Alphonsus is using a Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer to help it provide COVID-19 vaccinations in remote areas. If you’re interested in this topic, you might also want to check out our April issue of Square Feet, which appeared in last week’s paper and is also available online,