The Nampa Police Department, including the Nampa Police Bomb Unit, are responding to a suspicious package found in the parking lot of St. Lukes Hospital in Nampa.

The Nampa Police Department announced at 2:40 p.m. that the suspicious package they began investigating earlier on Thursday was not an explosive device.

The Nampa Police Department’s bomb unit responded Thursday to the city’s St. Luke’s hospital because of a “suspicious package” in the parking lot, police said on social media.

The Nampa Police Department is currently investigating a suspicious package in the parking lot of St. Luke’s Nampa Medical Center.

Patient flow at St. Luke’s was not affected, police said, and the emergency department was open. Police first arrived at around noon, police spokesperson Carmen Boeger said. “Traffic on Midland (Boulevard) may be restricted for a period of time,