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—Katie Ross

Long-term care insurance market faces challenges

Alternative options include hybrid and partial policies
Katie Ross
As the number of elderly Americans continues to rise, the cost of long-term care insurance has become a concern, with many here unable to afford the coverage and some choosing to buy hybrid or partial policies, some industry experts here say. Paul Vire
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Assisted-living project gets go-ahead in Coeur d'Alene

Lilac Glen plan also could include 20 housing units
Mike McLean
The Coeur d'Alene City Council has approved land-use requests for an envisioned 70-bed assisted-living facility and 20 other residential units on 13 acres of land near the French Gulch area on the east edge of the city, says architect Dick Stauffer, who
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—Mike McLean

Moran Vista Senior Living adjusts to market

Assisted-living demand steady since recession
Mike McLean
Since the Great Recession, Moran Vista Senior Living has balanced a slow return in demand for independent living apartments by licensing more assisted-living units, for which demand has remained steady, says Sandy Davidson, Moran Vista's administrator.
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—Judith Spitzer

When older adults go back to school

Career change, love of learning top lists of retirees' motivations
Judith Spitzer
Dr. Erik Strandness studied and practiced neonatal intensive-care medicine in Spokane for 25 years before retiring at the age of 51, in 2009, to pursue a graduate degree in theology at Whitworth University. After graduating in 2011, he took a position w
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Providence Holy Family in mediation with union

Nurses' wages said to lag behind Sacred Heart's
Judith Spitzer
The Seattle-based Washington State Nurses Association, which represents more than 400 registered nurses at Providence Holy Family Hospital in north Spokane, are in mediation talks with hospital administrators over pay that they contend lags behind that of
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—Kim Crompton

Insurance broker aims to simplify Obamacare

Welk writes book, creates website to aid consumers
Kim Crompton
Independent insurance broker Robert S. Welk, who owns Welk Security & Trust on Spokane's North Side, isn't interested in offering his personal views on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as the Affordable Care Act or O
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—Linn Parish

Sacred Heart adds recently approved surgical robot

Newer technology can be used on more procedures
Linn Parish
Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital has bought and installed the newest generation of the DaVinci robotic surgery device, a machine that' it expects will enable it to perform surgeries it hadn't been able to do robotically.
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—Katie Ross

New employer-owned health care plan launches here

Alternative offering stresses primary care, overall health
Katie Ross
Spokane-based Rockwood Health System has partnered with Cary, N.C.-based health care technology company Physician Care Direct to offer its Employer Health Ownership Plan (EHOP) here as an alternative to traditional third-party health insurance plans.
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