Heritage Health trims staff

The largest primary health care provider in North Idaho is reducing its staff and scaling back expansion efforts.

Heritage Health CEO Mike Baker said 30 positions were eliminated Friday from the Coeur d’Alene-based organization’s staff of 320.

The move is largely driven, he said, by uncertainty about the future of health care at the state and national level.

“Unfortunately, the lack of meaningful change in our state’s health care system means that our current trajectory is unsustainable for us — or anyone else — if we don’t get back to basics,” he said/ Maureen Dolan , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.