As senior citizens and policy experts continue to debate the merits of prescription-drug coverage under new Medicare-reform legislation signed into law this week, for most hospitals, the laws benefit is clearthey get more money to care for in

Columbia Primary Care, of Spokane, is a lot like the primary-care physicians that are its membersit takes care of the basics. The organization has 50 physician members who pay a monthly fee to Columbia Primary Care to negotiate reimbursement

Spokane Cardiology PS, of Spokane, plans next month to open its own heart-catheterization laboratory.Lloyd Guthrie, executive director of Spokane Cardiology, says the practice has leased a 3,500-square-foot space next to its office on the third

Dave Sanford, an 18-year veteran technician in Sacred Heart Medical Centers cardiac catheterization labs, had been waiting to hear about a tool that could help doctors open up a totally blocked coronary artery without conducting open-heart than a

HAYDEN, IdahoCorporate mergers typically have even higher failure rates than the liaisons of Hollywood stars, the venerable Economist magazine said in 2000. Luckily for North Idaho, the experience of Hayden-based Transtector Systems Inc.

DigiDeal Corp., a Spokane Valley manufacturer of digital gaming tables, quietly has grown from an idea shared by a few businesspeople to a fast-growing company that has clients from Vietnam to Ireland. It now claims to have garnered the largest of

Boise-based Albertsons Inc. plans to vacate its store at 10 N. Pines in Spokane Valley, where it has done business for 26 years, by the end of this year. The supermarket says its lease expires then, although the building owner, Harlan Douglass, a

A company headed by Coeur dAlene commercial real estate agent Paul Bielec has bought the former Bayliner boat-making complex in Spokane Valley and has converted it into a small industrial park. The facility, at 18001 E. Euclid, includes three

The Spokane Intercollegiate Research & Technology Institute (SIRTI) could become one of the nations chief repositories of information about processing fuels for use in fuel cells. SIRTI is sharing with InnovaTek Inc. and Pacific Northwest of

Olympic Foods Inc., a Spokane company that makes, bottles, and packages juices and manufactures plastic and paper beverage containers, is acquiring equipment that will enable it to fill 4-, 6-, and 10-ounce paper cartons with beverages.Olympic