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NW MedStar gives landing zone kits to rural responders

Strobe lights in the sets intended to help guide in transport helicopters

June 16, 2011

In an effort to improve safety for its employees and the patients it transports, Northwest MedStar recently provided helicopter landing zone kits to 15 rural fire and ambulance districts in Eastern Washington and North Idaho.Each kit includes a

Sacred Heart to begin testing new heart valve device

Medical center is one of 40 nationwide to participate in CoreValve System trial

June 16, 2011

Treva Lind

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center is one of 40 hospitals nationally enrolling patients in a clinical trial scheduled to start this month to test a new heart-valve replacement device. The Medtronic CoreValve System, marketed by Medtronic is

Diabetes prevention program launches

Spokane-area YMCA among early adopters of national initiative

June 16, 2011

Linn Parish

The YMCA of the Inland Northwest is an early adopter of a nationwide Diabetes Prevention and Control Alliance, a partnership that Minnesota-based health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. has launched with YMCA of the USA in an effort to slow growth a

Rockwood opens clinic on West Plains

Physician group here also plans to open North Side, Liberty Lake offices soon

June 16, 2011

Chey Scott

Rockwood Clinic PS, the Spokane-based doctors group owned by Community Health Systems Inc., of Franklin, Tenn., has opened a new primary-care clinic on the West Plains and says it has at least two more planned to open here before the end of the and

Small Business Watch

June 16, 2011

Sports card outlet moving in ValleySpokane Valley Sportscards is moving this month to 9404 E. Sprague from 9411 E. First, in Spokane Valley.Owner Alan Bisson said the move is necessary because he lost his lease when the building where he's was

Real Estate Roundup

June 16, 2011

Mike McLean

ASI Arden Solutions Inc., an Independence, Ore.-based wildland fire suppression and abatement service provider, has leased 2,900 square feet of office space at 131 Poplar, in Coeur d'Alene. Craig Hunter and Rob Kannapien, both of Coldwell Banker &

T.W. Clark to begin work soon on $2.5 million project in Selah

June 16, 2011

T.W. Clark Construction LLC, of Spokane Valley, has landed a contract for a $2.5 million project that involves erecting a utility maintenance facility for the city of Selah, Wash., about four miles north of Yakima.Scott Rountree, a T.W. Clark is

Senior apartments take shape - Art only

June 16, 2011

Framing work is nearly complete on the 42-unit Silver Creek Senior Apartments project under construction at 573 N. Idaline, in west Post Falls. Ebenal General Inc., of Bellingham, Wash., is the contractor on the $3.6 million project, and Nexus of

VA medical center to seek larger space for Cd'A clinic

Outpatient facility serves 4,000 veterans, expects service demands to grow

June 16, 2011

Mike McLean

The Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center says it has outgrown its outpatient clinic in Coeur d'Alene and plans to seek larger quarters there this year. Chuck Marsden, a spokesman at the Spokane VAMC, says the hospital will look for a location

CHS subsidiary acquires assets of home health agency

Concern now affiliated with Deaconess, Valley network to provide in-home care

June 16, 2011

Chey Scott

A subsidiary of Community Health Systems Inc., the Franklin, Tenn.-based hospital network operator that owns Deaconess Medical Center, Valley Hospital & Medical Center, and Rockwood Clinic PS here, has acquired the assets of Spokane-based Option is