St. Joseph Regional Medical Center is a 145-bed level 3 trauma center and the largest full-service regional medical center between Boise, Idaho and Spokane, Wash. The hospital provides advanced-level specialty healthcare to more than 60,000 residents in the Lewis-Clark Valley through more than 100 board-certified physicians and providers. For the fourth consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report named the hospital a “Best Hospital for Maternity Care,” and for the third consecutive year named it a “Maternity Care Access Hospital,” a designation given to only a few dozen hospitals nationwide for serving communities that would otherwise be maternity care deserts. In 2025, the medical center acquired Lewiston-based Catalyst Medical Group, adding 30 providers and doubling the size of its medical group, significantly expanding services in cancer care, maternity, heart and vascular, neurology, wound care, orthopedics, primary care and pediatrics. Castle Connolly named the medical center a 2026 “Top Hospital for C-Section Surgery,” and the hospital earned the American College of Cardiology’s “NCDR Chest Pain — MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award” in July 2024, becoming one of only 259 hospitals nationwide to receive that honor. The hospital also earned spring 2025 and fall 2024 “A” grades for hospital safety from The Leapfrog Group and a level 2 stroke center designation from Idaho’s Time Sensitive Emergency System. The ICU received the prestigious “Hospital Unit of the Year” award from LifeNet Health for its outstanding donation metrics and 100% compliance rate in referring all deaths to the donation referral line.
