Endometriosis care in Idaho

Idaho's publicly supported medical education runs through Idaho WWAMI, a partnership with the University of Washington School of Medicine since 1972; students apply to the Washington school, spend their first 18 months in Moscow, and then train at clinical sites around Idaho. No Idaho site appears on the AAGL Complex Benign Gynecology Fellowship listing, and the women's services pages of St. Luke's, the Boise-based system, list urogynecology but no named endometriosis or minimally invasive gynecologic surgery program.

Much of the state looks across its borders. Idaho Falls is about 190 air miles from Salt Lake City; Coeur d'Alene is about 30 from Spokane and Moscow about 70, so the panhandle often uses Washington hospitals. The March of Dimes 2023 state report classified 29.5 percent of Idaho counties as maternity care deserts and found 19.7 percent of women had no birthing hospital within 30 minutes, about double the national share; the number of birthing hospitals fell 12.5 percent between 2019 and 2020, and in the counties with the longest travel the average distance to one reached 93 miles.

Idaho adopted Medicaid expansion, per KFF's October 2026 status table. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare site is the state contact point; no separate women's health page was verified.