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Risch Picks Jerome-Based Moss Greenhouses As Small Business Of The Month<\/strong><\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), who serves on the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, has selected Moss Greenhouses in Jerome as the Idaho Small Business of the Month for February. Moss Greenhouses will be recognized in the Congressional Record of the U.S. Senate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moss Greenhouses, which was founded in 1952 by Ed and Ruth Adams, holds the distinction of being the largest plant producer and distributor in Idaho. The family-owned business specializes in providing flowers, orchids, and other flowering crops to grocery stores and flower shops across the Mountain West. Today, Moss Greenhouses is run by Ed and Ruth\u2019s grandson, Kevin, and his wife Dana.<\/span><\/p>\n

Praising Moss Greenhouses\u2019 many achievements, Risch said, \u201cTheir success and growth has created dozens of jobs for the Jerome community. As the company continues to serve the Jerome area, they hope to eventually welcome the family\u2019s fourth generation into the business.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/b>St. Luke\u2019s Names New Health System Leaders<\/strong><\/p>\n

Newly seated St. Luke\u2019s Health System President and CEO Chris Roth has named the organization\u2019s head of acute-care services and the administrator of its provider network to head up key operations and administrative functions for the organization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pam Lindemoen has been appointed to serve as St. Luke\u2019s chief operating officer. Lindemoen joined St. Luke\u2019s near the beginning of 2018, coming from Dignity Health St. Mary\u2019s Medical Center in San Francisco, where she was president and chief executive officer. Before that, she was region vice president for Kaiser Permanente\u2019s Northern California Region, leading operations across 22 medical centers with 25,000 staff members for the organization\u2019s largest of seven regions, serving approximately 3.5 million health plan members. Lindemoen has been instrumental in helping to shape the system\u2019s population health capabilities in the past two years; she will continue to be responsible for the organization\u2019s acute-care services as she takes on the additional responsibilities of operations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dave Self, who has served as chief administrative officer for St. Luke\u2019s Health Partners, has been named to the new position of St. Luke\u2019s Health System\u2019s chief administrative officer and will have oversight responsibility for key functions including strategy and planning; communications, marketing and community health; IHT; external relations; contracting and enterprise business development and sales. Prior to joining St. Luke\u2019s in 2014, he served as senior vice president and regional director of Idaho for PacificSource Health Plans, which he joined when the company acquired Primary Health Inc., where he was president and chief operating officer. Self has helped to shape the provider network and St. Luke\u2019s shift into value-based contracting; more than a third of the organization\u2019s revenues are tied to risk arrangements.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, with St. Luke\u2019s Chief Human Resources Officer Phil Johnson\u2019s retirement, Erin Simms has been named interim CHRO. The search for Johnson\u2019s permanent replacement is ongoing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Air Service Board Addresses High Traffic Challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n

Due to weather issues and the volume of commercial and general aviation flights during peak demand times at Friedman Memorial Airport, there was an unusually high level of Air Traffic Control delays which contributed to flight diversions by commercial airlines. Aircraft typically land from the south and take off to the south, adding a further limiting factor as to how many aircraft can land or take off in any given period.<\/span><\/p>\n

In response, the members of the Sun Valley Air Service Board (SVASB) met with Friedman Memorial Airport Authority (FMAA) to further examine policies and procedures around flight delays and diversions. They also explored whether any actions should be taken that could improve the visitor flying experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

From that meeting, SVASB made the following observations:<\/span><\/p>\n