With Idaho facing a growing mental-health crisis and ongoing budget cuts at both the state and federal levels, local voters ...

Around the country, many communities have been trying out “models” — structures involving both law enforcement and mental ...

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho law requiring parental consent for health services is limiting how crisis responders can help young people who call the state's suicide hotline, according to the Idaho Crisis ...

Medicaid expansion works because it replaces the most expensive and least effective kind of health care. | Opinion ...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Travis Parker in 2005 took the first-ever call to a special hotline. Police were at a trailer home in rural Saline County, Neb. The woman living there was suicidal, and officers needed ...

What began as an assault on abortion access is morphing into a full-scale redefinition of health care, writes guest columnist Debra Rosen. (Getty Images) As physicians leave the state in response to ...

A trained crisis counselor will listen to you, understand how your problem is affecting you, provide support and share resources, if needed. Crisis Text Line is a texting service for emotional crisis ...

Idaho will receive nearly $930 million over the next five years to improve rural health care access and affordability.  The ...

Transparency and accountability are hallmarks of healthy budgeting. So, let's be transparent. Let's be accountable. Everyone already knows how we got into our current budget crisis: Republican ...

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare activated crisis standards of care Sept. 16 for all hospitals and health systems across the state. The crisis standards of care have been activated “because ...

IDAHO (KIFI) — Idaho is the first state in the nation to open its Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance marketplace enrollment starting October 15. But the opening is marked by uncertainty due to ...