Providence Health Care, the Spokane-based parent of Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital and Holy Family Hospital, says it has bought the former Exit Real Estate-Jones & Associates building, at 421 S. Division, and plans to use it to house administrative staff.

Pat Servine, a spokeswoman at Sacred Heart, says Providence hasn't decided what departments or personnel will move to the building just southeast of the Interstate 90-Division Street interchange a few blocks north of the hospital.

Records at the Spokane County Assessor's Office indicate that Providence paid $1.4 million for the building.

The former occupant, now doing business as Exit Real Estate Professionals, has moved into 2,700 square feet of leased space on the second floor of the Sheffield Building, at 3124 S. Regal.

The brokerage, owned by the mother-daughter team of Gregg Elizabeth Jones and Sabrina Jones-Schroeder, bought the building, which originally was a funeral home, in 2005.