Mountain View Charity and Ball Ventures recently partnered to launch a new program that benefits both local restaurants and health care workers during the holidays.
The Feeding Our Heroes program is providing free meals to employees on shift at Idaho Falls Community Hospital and Mountain View Hospital. These meals are intended as a sign of gratitude for health care workers during the holiday season, many of whom are working 12- to 15-hour shifts. More than 20 businesses donated to Feeding Our Heroes. Those donations have been used to purchase meals from local restaurants and delivered to the hospitals.
Ball Ventures CEO Cortney Liddiard started the program after a conversation with a local hospital employee. He learned how much health care workers were struggling, not only with the long hours, but also with feeling âforgottenâ by the community.
While coronavirus cases have slowed significantly this month in eastern Idaho â with daily case averages declining from the 200s to fewer than 150 over the past week â medical leaders warn that local intensive care units remain stretched near their limits treating mostly COVID-19 patients.
Idaho Falls hospitals, for the most part, still have relatively low ICU capacity and high total COVID-19 patients as they did during the spike in cases after Thanksgiving.
Small private gatherings have been fueling new infections in the region, according to experts who are asking people to stay home for the holidays to avoid overwhelming the health care system.
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Updated: 8:57 PM MST December 23, 2020
REXBURG, Idaho An Idaho couple that had been married for over 48 years died from the coronavirus within five days of each other earlier this month.
Debbie Morgan died on Dec. 15 while her husband, Craig Morgan, passed away on Dec. 20.
Doctors had diagnosed Craig Morgan with the coronavirus on Dec. 11 and admitted him to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center on the same day his wife died.
Debbie Morgan had spent the last two years residing at an assisted living center while being treated for multiple sclerosis. She had contracted the coronavirus in November.
Craig and Debbie had met at the formerly-named Ricks College in 1971 and married the following year.