Saltzer Health is a fast-growing, dynamic healthcare organization with clinics and urgent care locations in Nampa, Caldwell, Meridian & Boise.
Our 55 providers offer services in family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN, midwifery urgent care, rheumatology, ENT, neurology, nephrology, ophthalmology, sleep medicine and other specialties.
Founded by Dr. Joseph Saltzer in 1961, Saltzer Health provides quality health care with a focus on transparency and affordability with providers you know and trust.
In 2019, Saltzer Medical Group was purchased by Ball Ventures Ahlquist and renamed Saltzer Health.
At Saltzer Health, we promise to put the patient and the provider first and to deliver healthcare at a cost that isn’t hidden or confusing.
We offer multi-specialty medical services, home health, home care and skilled nursing to serve patients through the continuum of care. To better understand the origins of our company and our commitment to transform healthcare, learn about our history, our leaders and our vision for innovation, choice and cost transparency in healthcare.
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Dr. Saltzer was born on an English immigrant ship heading to Canada. After settling with his family in Montreal, he earned a medical degree in 1935 from the prestigious McGill University in Quebec, Canada.
Dr. Saltzer completed his internship in New York City and started his medical career specializing in pathology. At the time, it was not unusual for pathologists to get tuberculosis and soon Dr. Saltzer was fighting the disease. After suffering from a collapsed lung and a remission, he was urged to go “out west” where the dryer weather would be more conducive to a full recovery.
Ultimately, Dr. Saltzer moved to Homedale, Idaho where he put up his shingle. One day he was chatting with the local druggist when a rancher came in looking for veterinary pharmaceuticals for his prize bull. As he described the symptoms to the druggist, Dr. Saltzer recognized the symptoms as an upper respiratory infection of streptococcal origin. Sulfa had just come on the market. Together, Dr. Saltzer and the rancher figured out the dosage and proceeded to the ranch where they administered the medication to the bull.
The bull survived and Dr. Saltzer’s fame spread throughout the rural area. His medical practice in Homedale grew until he eventually moved more than 20 miles to Nampa to be near a hospital.
There, he teamed up with a local surgeon, Dr. Kellogg, and networked with other local physicians while trying to find the best medical solutions for his patients. Eventually, Dr. Saltzer and Dr. Kellogg formed a medical group with Dr. Robert Hay and Dr. Harold Brown.
Originally known as Medical Center Physicians, the name changed in 1999 to Saltzer Medical Group.
After five decades practicing medicine, Dr. Saltzer retired at the age of 76.
In April 2019, Saltzer Medical Group was acquired by Ball Ventures Ahlquist, an Idaho-based development company led by Cortney Liddiard and Tommy Ahlquist, a former emergency room physician.
The name Saltzer Medical Group was changed to Saltzer Health to better reflect the organization’s expanded vision and future as a leader in quality, transparency and low-cost healthcare.
Today, Saltzer Health is the state’s largest independent multi-specialty physician group but the friendly patient-oriented approach that characterized Dr. Saltzer’s practice continues.
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About Ball Ventures Ahlquist (BVA)
Cortney Liddiard and Dr. Tommy Ahlquist founded BVA with the goal of building the region's most prominent medical development company.
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About Cortney Liddiard
Cortney Liddiard is a multifaceted CPA with expertise in commercial real estate, private equity, energy and the healthcare sector. He is Chief Executive Officer of Ball Ventures.
Cortney began his career working in U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch's office in Washington, D.C. where he served on the taxation staff. He later became a partner at Rudd & Company, a large regional accounting firm, where he represented clients in all aspects of accounting and taxation.
Since 2002, Cortney has served as Chief Executive Officer of Ball Ventures LLC., based in Idaho Falls, which owns and manages approximately 2.9 million square feet of commercial real estate across the country.
Ball Ventures has also formed other strategic partnerships to create a diversified real estate portfolio in healthcare, hospitality, and student housing.
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About Dr. Tommy Ahlquist
A self-described serial entrepreneur, Dr. Tommy Ahlquist is Chief Executive Officer of Ball Ventures Ahlquist.
Tommy ran several companies while working his way through medical school at the University of Utah and residency at the University of Arizona in emergency medicine. He went on to practice as a full-time ER doctor for 18 years treating over 45,000 patients over the course of his medical career.
After witnessing the life-saving power of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), Tommy founded Stat Pads in 2001. Stat Pads is now the premier defibrillation service company in the country.
In 2005, he founded Ahlquist Development, a regional firm that has developed and owned over 2 million square feet of commercial, retail and medical office space.
