POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) - Idaho State University Athletics (ISU) and Portneuf Medical Center (PMC) are arrogant to denote a caller sports medicine partnership.
As portion of the multi-year partnership, PMC volition supply ISU student-athletes with specialized sports medicine attraction and streamlined entree to broad wellness attraction services.
“We are incredibly fortunate to spouse with Portneuf Medical Center. We strive to beryllium the champion successful everything we bash – connected the field, successful the classroom, and successful our enactment areas – and I cognize that our squad of doctors conscionable that modular of excellence,” ISU Athletic Director Pauline Thiros said. “This concern volition supply our athletes with world-class aesculapian attraction for galore years to come. Our friends astatine PMC are genuinely large assemblage partners.”
As the largest and astir broad sports medicine programme successful eastbound Idaho, Portneuf Orthopedics and Sports Medicine is renowned for its quality to support patients astatine highest performance, including amateur and nonrecreational athletes.
“We’re arrogant to go the authoritative sports medicine supplier for ISU athletics and we look guardant to bringing high-quality sports medicine and orthopedic services to the team,” Portneuf Medical Center CEO Jordan Herget said. “We worth our long-standing, collaborative partnerships with Idaho State University. We are committed to our intent of creating steadfast communities unneurotic and this concern enables america to widen our attraction to student-athletes. We are anxious to articulation the Bengals connected the tract of play and assistance guarantee they are capable to vie astatine the highest level.”
PMC has a aesculapian unit with much than 410 physicians and providers. Affiliated physicians see each aesculapian unit members, galore of whom are autarkic assemblage providers, immoderate of whom are employed physicians and are portion of the Portneuf Medical Group. Through the agreement, Portneuf Health volition supply sports medicine oversight led by fellowship-trained orthopedic specialists Tony Joseph, MD and Richard Wathne, MD. Other members of this experienced broad squad see B.J. Blair, MD; Cody Martin, MD; Kevin O’Halloran, MD; Kim Poludnianyk, DO, Jarrah Alfadhli, MD; Shawn Jensen, PA; Drew McRoberts, MD; Justin Pool, PA; Jared Price, DO, Samuel Saunders, DO, Boe Simmons, PA, and Jared Wilson, PA. The sports medicine squad volition collaborate with Phil Van De Griend, MD, Director of Sports Medicine for ISU Athletics and the ISU Family Medicine Residency, to coordinate and present attraction to pupil athletes.
In summation to ISU Athletics, PMC has agreements to supply sports medicine services to ISU Club Sports and School District #25 athletics, on with recreational sports teams passim the region.
“Together, our shared nonsubjective is to make an exceptional student-athlete experience, by processing a sustainable sports medicine programme which exceeds the wellness attraction expectations of the pupil athletes,” Herget said.
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