Special Report

Working toward a more educated RN workforce

Goal is for more nurses to earn four-year degrees
Linda Tieman
Washington state's nursing leaders are continuing to make momentous progress toward reaching the national goal of creating a highly educated, diverse nursing workforce that will be better prepared to take care of all people now and in the future.
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—Mike McLean

Private nursing agency at home with young patients

Provider focuses on care for medically fragile kids
Mike McLean
Spokane Valley-based Pediatric Home Care Inc. focuses on enhancing the quality of life of medically fragile children, by helping young patients to live at home despite their needs for intensive medical intervention, says Ruth Seignemartin, administrator a
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CHAS leases lower South Hill space for new health clinic

Center to offer primary care, possibly specialty services
Katie Ross
Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS), the Spokane-based nonprofit provider of medical, dental, pharmacy, and behavioral health services, has leased almost 6,000 square feet of space in the South Perry District for a new clinic, says spokeswoman
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—Katie Ross

Research probes sleep cycle, cancer treatment link

Timing drugs to patient's internal clock could increase efficiency
Katie Ross
A researcher at Washington State University Spokane is studying the way the body's biological regulatory system, called the circadian clock, influences skin cancer and the treatments used for it.
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—Judith Spitzer

Weight loss surgery surge

More insurers now said to be covering procedures
Judith Spitzer
Last year at this time, Mari Shay, a registered nurse at the Rockwood Weight Loss Surgery Center in Spokane, weighed in at about 100 pounds heavier than she does today. Shay says she was prediabetic, her cholesterol was rising, and she suffered from hypog
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—Pasco School District

Walker Construction starts $12.3 million Pasco job

STEM high school to be completed next summer
Judith Spitzer
Walker Construction Inc., of Spokane, says it has started construction of the 45,000-square-foot, $12.3 million Delta High School, a four-year-old STEM-focused high school in northwest Pasco, Wash. STEM refers to the academic areas of science, technology
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Rite Aid resuscitates plan for new North Side outlet

Stand-alone unit to be built at Franklin Park Commons
Mike McLean
Rite Aid Corp., the Camp Hill, Pa.-based pharmacy and retail store chain, has submitted a building permit application to construct a stand-alone store on the north end of the Franklin Park Commons shopping center, where it would move an existing outlet fr
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—Bernardo|Wills Architects PC

Cd'A orthopedic practice to open second clinic here

Meridian doing $500,000 in improvements for tenant
Mike McLean
Meridian Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, is working on a nearly $500,000 tenant improvement project in the medical district on the lower South Hill, where a growing orthopedic practice currently based in Coeur d'Alene plans to open a second clinic
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