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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 ...

Hospital representatives delivered a sigh of relief to eastern Idaho health officials on Thursday, saying that the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines to frontline health care workers this week has boosted staff morale. But that relief is being tempered by the sustained staffing strains that hospitals are experiencing as virus patients fill up their ICUs. “Over half of our ICU census is COVID positive,” David Hoffenberg of Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center told the regional board. “Beyond that, we are very excited to report that yesterday and the night before … we administere...

But that relief is being tempered by the sustained staffing strains that hospitals are experiencing as virus patients fill up their ICUs. “Over half of our ICU census is COVID positive,” David Hoffenberg of Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center told the regional board. “Beyond that, we are very excited to report that yesterday and the night before … we administered our first vaccinations.” × Story continues below video Twenty-five of the hospital’s nearly 30 staffed ICU beds were full, he said, with 13 of the patients being COVID-19 positive and 16 being on vent...