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Kootenai Health involved in $9 million in new projects

About $9 million in new construction, remodeling under way or planned in Cd'A hospital district

August 30, 2012

Kootenai Health, the Coeur d'Alene-based hospital district that operates Kootenai Medical Center, says it's involved in a number of construction projects with a combined estimated value exceeding $9 million and ranging in size from kitchen upgrades

Bridging Care Across the Inland Northwest works to reduce hospital-readmission rates

WSU nursing researcher helps area health groups with transitions care model

August 30, 2012

Treva Lind

A group called Bridging Care Across the Inland Northwest formed by health and elder care organizations has developed a new hospital transitional-care model to reduce readmission rates for elderly patients.Before the end of this year, the group a

Taking fresh look at old structure

August 30, 2012

Editor's Notebook

It would be a predictable post-mortem for us to blast historic preservation advocates for killing Campus Advantage's plans for a job-generating $25 million student housing project on the University District site where the 102-year-old former after

Steel building contractor takes Valley building

August 30, 2012

Kim Crompton

Bulldog Contractors Inc., a five-year-old business, has moved into a commercial space in Spokane Valley and has set up an interactive showroom there with displays and samples, says Larry Anderson, company president.The company, owned by Anderson

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Tacoma Screw building rises - Art only

August 30, 2012

Baker Construction & Development Inc., of Spokane, is erecting the10,000-square-foot Tacoma Screw Products Inc. building near the juncture where Fancher Road turns into Interstate 90. The building is scheduled to be completed in October.

Blew's lands remodel job for new Valley tech center

Contractor to revamp site of former drug store for $1.6 million skills facility

August 30, 2012

Treva Lind

Blew's Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, has won a $1.6 million contract to convert a former Rite Aid store building in the University City area into a new skills center for high school students, to be called Spokane Valley Tech.Construction

Home health agency here changes name

August 30, 2012

Kim Crompton

The Spokane office of Northeast Washington Home Health, which provides in-home health care services to a large area here, has changed its name and now is operating as Assured Home Health.A press release issued about the name change said the home

Safeway improves truck access at Hillyard distribution center

$1 million project moves freight traffic entrance, exit to Rowan from Freya

August 30, 2012

Mike McLean

Safeway Inc. has launched a $1 million-plus traffic-improvement project at its distribution center in the Hillyard neighborhood, says Dane Albrecht, corporate operations engineering manager for the big Pleasanton, Calif.-based supermarket project a

Accra-Fab says big wastewater-reclamation project pays off

Accra-Fab cuts weekly wastewater production, reports rising revenue

August 30, 2012

Jessica Valencia

Accra-Fab, Inc., the Liberty Lake-based maker of machined components and precision sheet metal, has reported substantial operational savings after a large wastewater-reclamation project completed earlier this year that's intended to make its line E

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Eric Brown, Duane Brelsford team up on big Pullman projects

Latest include 180-unit, 15-building apartment complex, retail center

August 30, 2012

Kim Crompton

Spokane builder-developer Eric Brown and prominent Pullman developer K. Duane Brelsford are working together again on the two latest in a series of apartment complex and commercial project collaborations.Brown, owner of Brown Contracting & Inc.,