Special Report

Kootenai Health acquires gastroenterology practice

Coeur d'Alene hospital district also plans to buy related endoscopy center

December 6, 2012

Kootenai Health, the Coeur d'Alene-based hospital district that operates Kootenai Medical Center, has agreed to acquire a gastroenterology practice over the next year and a related endoscopy practice in 2014.North Idaho Gastroenterology will its

New medical complex rises in Valley - art only

December 6, 2012

The $58 million Providence Medical Park-Spokane Valley has started to come out of the ground along the south side of Interstate 90, along Indiana Avenue and east of Sullivan Road. The 127,000-square-foot building is scheduled to be completed in of

Specialist practice eyes new building

Northwest Eyelid & Orbital files design plans with city for $1.2 million structure

December 6, 2012

Treva Lind

Northwest Eyelid & Orbital Specialists PS, a Spokane-based provider of specialty care and surgical procedures for areas around the eyes, has submitted design plans to the city of Spokane to construct a two-story medical office building east of who

Interest in health found to peak at 51

Second spike said to occur as people hit 65 years old, in transition to retirement

December 6, 2012

News Wise

For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak coming near age 65, a new Ohio State University study says.The results might help doctors and other professionals target this generation with health a

CHAS medical director starts as need grows

Lockwood takes helm to oversee providers, care guidelines at nine clinics

December 6, 2012

Treva Lind

Dr. William Lockwood, who joined Community Health Association of Spokane in 2010 to launch its first urgent-care facility, has taken on new duties as CHAS medical director.The change comes as the nonprofit continues to grow, with plans to add to

Real Estate Roundup

November 21, 2012

Mike McLean

Advanced Machining NW Inc., a new Spokane machine shop, has leased 1,500 square feet of floor space at 7826 N. Market. Steve Peterson, of Coldwell Banker Tomlinson North, and Doug Byrd, of Byrd Real Estate Group LLC, handled the transaction. Fluids

Century West plans move to another Valley building

Engineering firm to occupy entire 6,100-square-foot structure

November 21, 2012

Mike McLean

Portland, Ore-based Century West Engineering Corp. has leased a 6,100-square-foot Spokane Valley office building at 11707 E. Montgomery Drive and plans to move there next month from smaller quarters it has long occupied about three miles east of be

Spokane contractor begins work on emergency facility

Kearsley Construction plans to finish Sprague center by next summer

November 21, 2012

Jessica Valencia

Kearsley Construction Inc., of Spokane has broken ground on a Sprague, Wash., emergency response center that will be home to a volunteer fire department, and will replace a smaller, older facility, says project architect Ryan Zane, of Spokane-based

$1.2 million pain treatment facility to rise in Riverstone

Clinic, outpatient-surgery center to move to building from KMC next spring

November 21, 2012

Mike McLean

Work has started on a $1.2 million medical clinic and surgery center for Pain Management of North Idaho LLC in the Riverstone mixed-use development in northwest Coeur d'Alene.Polin & Young Construction Inc., of Coeur d'Alene, is the contractor a

Mattress Firm retail store is being erected in Valley

Store to be near entrance to new Walmart superstore built along Sprague Avenue

November 21, 2012

Treva Lind

Seattle-based Pennon Construction Co. is erecting a 5,000-square-foot building in the Spokane Valley to house a Mattress Firm retail store. Madison Sprague II LLC, of Kirkland, Wash., is developing the structure, which will be located at 4707