Health Care

STARS shows integrated behavioral health facility

New location to offer 64 beds for crisis treatment, withdrawal management

February 13, 2020

Spokane Treatment & Recovery Services plans to build a 64-bed, 42,000-square-foot integrated behavioral health treatment facility and medical clinic on East Nora Avenue, in Spokane Valley, and will hire up to 100 new employees to staff the facility.

Designing the future requires cash-flow planning

Nonsavers may be stuck in perpetual debt crisis

February 13, 2020

Guest Commentary

Imagine building a house without blueprints or having any construction experience. The outcome is going to be unfortunate, if not downright dangerous. The same is true about financial planning. Unless we don't care what happens, we all ought to have a

Parting Thoughts with Joyce Cameron of Providence Health Foundation

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February 13, 2020

Virginia Thomas

Peering out from behind her signature, fashionably bold glasses, Joyce Cameron is quick to laugh. She's just as quick to recall with quiet reverence the rare moments during which

Premera starts work on second Spokane health care clinic

First Vivacity office opened this month on North Side

January 30, 2020

Natasha Nellis

Mountlake Terrace, Washington-based Premera Blue Cross plans to open a new health care clinic later this year at 1601 N. Division, in a space near Gonzaga University that Einstein's Bagels once occupied.

Adolescent girls bored at higher rates than boys, study shows

WSU researcher says it may signal other issues

January 16, 2020

Kevin Blocker

If you're the parent of a teenager, or spend any amount of time around them, it's not a surprise to hear them say they're bored.

Biking, running, swimming for recovery

Gynecologic oncologist teams up with patients to take part in triathlons

January 16, 2020

Beth Hegde

In the middle of the night, gynecologic oncologist Dr. Melanie Bergman sat next to Rose Mary Volbrecht on her hospital bed at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, consoling her with the words

StretchLab to debut club in Coeur d'Alene

Restaurants & Retail

January 16, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Seeking to add to her suite of growing franchise fitness clubs, Jaimee Cox has targeted the end of February to open StretchLab, at 2007 Tea Olive Lane, directly north of Lake City High School in Coeur d'Alene.

Gonzaga alum sets up north Spokane physical therapy office

New clinic to open in Evergreen Center

January 16, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Gonzaga University graduate Michael Stobie currently is setting up his own physical therapy clinic near the Division Y, on Spokane's North Side.

Preterm birth rates haven't declined in decades

Wide variety of risk factors said to be contributing to persistently steady rates

January 16, 2020

Virginia Thomas

Preterm birth rates from the local to the national level have remained fairly stable for the past few decades, but some in the obstetrical care community say the fact rates haven't declined is frustrating.

MultiCare physician explores new spine surgery technique

Doctor here pioneering three-level lateral fusion

January 16, 2020

Natasha Nellis

After 20 years of chronic back pain, former Stevens County Commissioner Fran Bessermin decided quality of life was more important than the fear of having spinal surgery and elected to undergo a new surgery technique developed last year.