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Provider keeps its patients at home

Private-duty nursing care, off-site infusion services are focus of Spokane Valley-based business

October 20, 2011

For more than two decades, Integrated Health Professionals Inc., a Spokane Valley-based home-heath venture, has been helping to keep the chronically-ill patients it serves across the Inland Northwest out of long-term medical care facilities and in

New exec takes over at St. Luke's

Rehabilitation center ends national search for leader, brings on Ulrike Berzau

October 20, 2011

Amanda Baker

St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute, in Spokane, has hired a new hospital administrator following a national search. Ulrike Berzau started at St. Luke's at the beginning of this month.Berzau specializes in inpatient rehabilitation, ambulatory at

Therapy prevails in stroke study

Doctors at Sacred Heart contribute to nationwide trial for device, treatment

October 20, 2011

Mike McLean

Initial findings of a nationwide trial in which Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital participated show that certain stroke patients who received aggressive medical therapy had fewer subsequent strokes than patients who a in

Windermere broker buys out partners

October 20, 2011

Mike McLean

Real estate broker Joe Garst says he has bought out the minority interests in the Windermere franchise north of downtown and is now its sole owner.The franchise, which does business as Windermere Real Estate/City Group LLC, occupies about 4,000

Advanced Dermatology rises at Riverstone - Art only

October 20, 2011

Work is well under way on a new building that Spokane Valley-based Advanced Dermatology & Skin Surgery PLLC is developing in the Riverstone complex, in northwest Coeur d'Alene. Yost, Mooney & Pugh Contractors Inc., of Spokane, is the general on the

Demolition work clears way for SFCC projects next year

Talisman is well along on $580,000 contract to raze three structures

October 20, 2011

Treva Lind

Talisman Construction Services Inc., of Spokane, is completing $580,000 worth of demolition work this month at Spokane Falls Community College, mainly to clear space for two projects that could start as early as next spring.Talisman Construction

Small Business Watch

October 20, 2011

Bias Software buys, remodels building Bias Accounting Inc., which does business as Bias Software, has purchased a building at 327 E. Pacific that formerly housed a laboratory.Bias Software bought the 5,200-square-foot building in August to

Sandpoint-based Air Idaho gains Spokane, Cd'A clientele

Charter flight service up for federal contract; plans second airplane

October 20, 2011

Mike McLean

Air Idaho Charters LLC, a Sandpoint, Idaho-based charter flight service, says most of its business has been generated though Spokane and Coeur d'Alene, and it recently has landed a contract with the U.S. Forest Service.The company currently has

Belgian beer buffs prepare for production in Post Falls

Selkirk Abbey pursues government approvals to launch craft brewery

October 20, 2011

Mike McLean

A pair of craft beer enthusiasts has joined forces with a professional brewer to found Selkirk Abbey Brewing Co., in Post Falls, and the team expects to begin producing Belgian-style ales by early next year.Jeff Whitman, who's been developing be

INW stock composite plummeted last quarter

Hart Capital says equity market value has declined $4.1 billion from Q1 peak

October 20, 2011

Treva Lind

Hart Capital Management Inc.'s Inland Northwest Composite, which gauges the aggregate market value of 15 publicly traded companies in the region, fell by $2.3 billion, or 19 percent, in the third quarter, as weighty market forces reversed earlier a