Since his college days, Rich Umbdenstock has never thought of working in any field other than health-care administration, and on Jan. 1 hell reach a new high in that profession.Thats when, in addition to serving as CEO and president of the

An elderly female patient at Holy Family Hospital suffered from intestinal angina, a narrowing of the arteries that deliver blood to the intestines, and the constriction had left her malnourished and weak. A catheter-based procedure to restore flow

Kootenai Medical Center, in Coeur dAlene, says its creating a master campus plan this year that will guide hospital officials when they draw up a new five-year expansion strategy in 2006.KMC has hired Seattle-based Mithun Inc., which master

Mountain West Bank went into business 12 years ago in a trailer at the corner of Ironwood Drive and Government Way in Coeur dAlene. Now, Mountain West has a branch on that site, and its headquarters take up much of the 29,000-square-foot next

The city of Spokanes efforts to spur concentrated development activity in 21 designated centers and corridors with its 4-year-old comprehensive land-use plan hasnt worked out as well as had been hoped, say some city and neighborhood John the is

Itron Inc., of Spokane Valley, has landed two new contractsone that involves providing a Kingston, Ontario, municipal utility with automatic meter-reading equipment and one through which it will deploy energy-management software to a energy to of

Nick-N-Willys Franchise LLC, a Lone Tree, Colo.-based restaurant and carryout pizza chain, says it plans to open 10 franchise outlets in Eastern Washington and Coeur dAlene by 2008.The chain, which has one company-owned outlet and 64 has to

Hewes Marine Co., a Colville, Wash., aluminum-boat manufacturer that employs more than 100 workers, plans to begin construction next summer on a 15,000-square-foot addition to the larger of its two buildings to increase its production city of will

The city of Spokane last week secured the last chunk of the $7 million in federal money it was hoping to get for a planned three-phase extension of Riverside Avenue from Division Street east through the University District. Concerns about a of

Drive-in dining and roller skating carhops might become more common sights in the Spokane area soon.A Spokane franchisee of Sonic Drive-In, a 3,000-restaurant chain thats popular in the South and Midwest, plans to develop its first outlet and