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EMS providers across the state are facing an array of challenges, regardless of whether they are volunteers or paid staff, jeopardizing patients who rely on the services. Those who live in rural areas may feel the most impacts of strained EMS workers.
Idaho’s child protection services are struggling, with some kids being left in unsafe homes despite dozens of complaints and others forced to stay in hotels because there aren’t enough foster parents to take them in, members of a legislative panel were recently told. The Child Protection Legislative Oversight Committee heard from members of citizen review panels around ...
The Idaho Legislature’s Child Protection Legislative Oversight Committee met for the first time in more than a year Friday and heard from many people working within the state’s child welfare system about numerous issues concerning staffing, safety and support for foster care families. The committee, which was established in 2018 following a report from the […]
The report from Idaho’s Office of Performance Evaluation has data from half of the state’s agencies. About 80% of EMS agency directors surveyed reported insufficient staff and funding to meet community needs.
The report released Friday found that just 18% of EMS directors reported that their agency is able to maintain sufficient staff.