The Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund last year made 54 grants totaling more than $360,000 to 36 direct service providers in the Inland Northwest. The charitable foundation's founders, Don Barbieri and Sharon Smith, say it's a drop in the bucket, howe

Spokane-based information technology company Nuvodia LLC, having separated geographically from its parent company Inland Imaging last year, is expanding into other areas of medicine and strengthening its newfound foothold in the energy sector. Last June

Spokane nonprofit Beyond Pink is advocating for breast thermography as an early-screening method for breast cancer-and having success in getting more women to take the test. While the American Medical Association and others have yet to embrace the tec

Dr. John Tomkowiak, Washington State University's inaugural dean for the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, is carrying on the legacy of the medical school's namesake by implementing a few innovative ideas of his own. Tomkowiak, whose medical backgr

Continuous change in the health care industry served as the driving impetus for Group Health Cooperative as it started pursuing a partner a few years ago. That pursuit culminated at the end of last year when Oakland-based health insurer Kaiser Permanente

More hospitality management students are showing interest in the senior housing management niche, says Nancy Swanger, a professor with Washington State University's School of Hospitality who oversees a class on senior housing management. The school fi

Donald C. Brockett spent 33 years working in the Spokane County Prosecutor's Office, 25 of those as the office's lead attorney. He's argued cases at nearly every judicial level, including before the U.S. Supreme Court in the mid-1970s. Now, Brocket

While more than 100 residents currently live in the 6.6-acre Guardian Angel Homes Liberty Lake retirement complex, its facilities are designed to feel small and homelike, says Joan Estudillo, administrator of the Liberty Lake campus. The care facilities,