Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center - Boise
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho is dedicated to delivering advanced medical services in a spiritual, healing environment throughout southwest Idaho, eastern Oregon and northern Nevada. Through innovative technologies, compassionate staff and warm, healing environments, Saint Alphonsus strives to provide care that is focused on patients.
Founded in 1894 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Saint Alphonsus was the first hospital established in Boise – bringing healthcare to the poor and underserved. Now referred to as Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, our licensed medical-surgical/acute care 381-bed facility serves as the center for advanced medicine and is poised to support the community well into the future. Saint Alphonsus also has an intricate system of health and wellness services that extend into the communities around our region.
The Saint Alphonsus Medical Group has primary care and specialty care physicians throughout the region that are focused on keeping care close to home. Our Virtual Monitoring & Care initiatives use telemedicine to reach out to patients who are homebound or in rural areas that lack mobility or access to healthcare centers and services. Through audio and/or visual means, healthcare providers are able to remotely assess, monitor, instruct, educate and treat patients who typically would not be able to travel to receive services. These community-based services, combined with the advanced critical care available at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, provide residents with more comprehensive, convenient and accessible health and wellness care, and support our mission to improve the health of our communities.
The Saint Alphonsus Trauma Center has a Level II Trauma Center designation by the Time Sensitive Emergency System. This validates that a hospital is fully equipped and prepared to provide care for patients with major traumatic injuries. Trauma Centers have dedicated physicians, staff and resources to provide specialist medical and nursing care including emergency medicine, trauma surgery, critical care, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, vascular surgery, anesthesiology, and radiology.
- Main Number: 208-367-2121
- Central Scheduling: 208-367-8787
- Emergency Department: 208-367-3221
- Human Resources: 208-367-2149
- Medical Records: 208-367-2101
- Patient/Visitor Information: 208-367-2121
- Volunteer Services: 208-367-2112
- Brain injury program
- Breast care
- Cardiac & vascular
- Cancer care
- Diabetes care & education
- Emergency & trauma
- Hospitalists
- Infusion clinic
- Laboratory
- Maternity services
- Neuro, Surgical, Trauma Intensive Care Unit
- Neurosciences
- Orthopedics
- Pain management
- Palliative care
- Pulmonary diagnostics laboratory
- Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation
- Radiology & medical imaging
- Research
- Sleep disorders
- Spine care
- Stroke center
- Surgical services
- Wound & hyperbaric
- Main Hospital: 10:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. daily.
- Intensive Care Unit, Cardiovascular Care Unit, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and Pediatrics: Immediate family 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Family Maternity Center: 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. daily.
- Telemetry: 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. daily.
- Behavioral Health: Adult patient visiting from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Monday through Friday; 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. on weekends. Children's visiting from 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. daily.
The Place Setting Cafe, located on the second floor of the hospital, is open daily from 6:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. - 3:30 a.m. Solid Grounds Coffee Bar and Solid Grounds 2 Coffee Bar are open Monday through Friday from 6:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Learn more about the food service program at Saint Alphonsus.
Awards and Accreditations
Saint Alphonsus Health System is proud to be named one of the Top 15 Health Systems in the country by IBM Watson Health. The study analyzes system metrics from publicly-available clinical, operational and patient perception of care data at more than 300 health systems across the country. Key performance measures in the report include inpatient and extended care quality, operational efficiency, financial health and patient experience.
The American College of Cardiology has recognized SARMC for its demonstrated expertise in treating patients with chest pain. SARMC is the only one in the state of Idaho to be awarded Chest Pain Center Accreditation with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Resuscitation. Certification is based on rigorous onsite evaluation of the staff's ability to assess, diagnose and treat patients who may be experiencing a heart attack.
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise is recertified by The Joint Commission in Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement. To achieve this certification, an organization must comply with national standards in quality, demonstrate consistent use of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for hip and knee replacement procedures, and must meet national standards in collection and analysis of performance measures specific to this patient population.
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise is recertified by The Joint Commission for their Palliative Care Program, a symbol of quality for our commitment to providing safe and effective patient care. The Joint Commission’s Certification Program is designed to evaluate clinical programs across the continuum of care. Certification requirements address three core areas: compliance with national standards; effective use of clinical practice guidelines to manage and optimize care; and an organized approach to performance measurement and improvement activities.
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho is designated a Level ll Trauma Center by the Idaho Time Sensitive Emergency System.
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise is the first hospital in Idaho to be designated by the State of Idaho’s Time Sensitive Emergency Statewide Council (TSE) as a level I+ STEMI Center. SARMC meets all the criteria set by the State of Idaho to care for the most critical heart attack patients who experience cardiogenic shock and heart failure.
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise is the first hospital in Idaho to be designated by the State of Idaho's Time Sensitive Emergency Statewide Council (TSE) as a Level I Comprehensive Stroke Center, which makes our verification the highest in the state in three key areas: stroke, trauma, and chest pain. This designation represents an evidence-based approach to highly organized and comprehensive systems of care in the event of a stroke, and was achieved by demonstrating improved patient outcomes, lowered costs, reduced preventable deaths and improved quality of life for patients.
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center and Saint Alphonsus Medical Center – Nampa have received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2023. Saint Alphonsus is one of only 262 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor. The award recognizes Saint Alphonsus’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and signifies that Saint Alphonsus has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients to standard levels of care as outlined by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical guidelines and recommendations.
Outpatient department of Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center.