Healthcare. Veterans. Working Families.
A North Idaho healthcare compliance professional, Coeur d'Alene community leader, and working mom running to bring rural Idaho's voice to Boise.
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About Mirna
As a compliance officer at Shoshone Medical Center, Idaho's Critical Access Hospital in Kellogg, I saw firsthand how decisions made in Boise ripple through small towns. Laws passed at the statehouse limited the care our community could access, constrained what providers could offer, and made it harder for rural families to get the help they needed. That experience shaped how I think about public policy: it is never abstract. It lands on real people in real communities.
Today I work as a Senior Compliance Professional at Providence Health, helping ensure that physician practices across the region meet federal standards including Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute. I understand how complex healthcare regulation works, and the real-world consequences when it fails rural Idahoans. I also see what is happening to our physician workforce. Laws restricting women's healthcare have driven good doctors out of Idaho, leaving patients in rural communities with fewer providers and longer distances to travel for basic care. That is not a political talking point. It is a patient safety crisis.
My story is North Idaho's story. Before I remarried, I raised my two daughters as a single mother earning $17 an hour. Rent was tight then, but manageable. Wages like mine have not kept pace with what it costs to live here now, and I cannot imagine the pressure single parents face today trying to make the same budget work. I went back to school as an adult, earning a degree from Gonzaga and later a Master of Jurisprudence in Health Law from Loyola University Chicago, because I believed that building a better future was worth the effort. I still believe that.
My husband served our country in the Air Force for twenty years and lives with service-connected disabilities. Our veterans deserve leaders who understand what that service truly costs, and who will show up for them in every budget cycle and policy debate.
I have lived in Coeur d'Alene since 2002. I serve on the Spokane-Cagli Sister City Board and am a member of Leadership Spokane's Class of 2024, a program devoted to servant leadership and tackling the real challenges facing our communities. North Idaho deserves a voice in Boise grounded in lived experience, not talking points.
My Platform
Critical Access Hospitals are lifelines for rural communities. I'll protect rural hospital funding, expand telehealth, and make sure Boise understands what healthcare deserts cost North Idaho families.
Laws restricting women's healthcare have pushed physicians out of Idaho, leaving rural communities with fewer providers and families traveling farther for basic care. Every Idaho woman deserves access to quality reproductive and preventive healthcare, regardless of her zip code or income. I will stand against legislation that endangers patients and drives away the doctors we need.
As the spouse of a 20-year Air Force veteran with service-connected disability, I understand the sacrifices military families make. Veterans deserve benefits, behavioral health support, and leaders who show up.
I raised two daughters as a single mother earning $17 an hour. I know what it means to stretch a paycheck and make hard choices. The cost of living has outpaced wages, and the pressure on working families today is greater than ever. I will champion policies that give Idaho families a real chance.
I went back to school as an adult because I believed education could change my story, and it did. Every Idahoan deserves access to quality education, from early childhood through workforce training.
Our communities thrive when we invest in each other: our neighbors, our small businesses, our natural resources. I'll fight for policies that keep North Idaho strong, independent, and livable.
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"I did not run because it was easy. I ran because I have lived the challenges facing North Idaho families, and I know we can do better together."
Mirna, Candidate for Idaho House District 5, Seat A