Health Care

H-Source's revenues rise as hospital margins fall

Tech platform gains momentum as more facilities join network

July 5, 2018

Amid rising health care costs and continually decreasing hospital profit margins, Spokane health care technology company H-Source Holdings Ltd. is positioned to grow rapidly, the company's co-founders say. Through its H-Source Inc. subsidiary, the com

New medical office building rises at Riverstone

Eye clinic to move to $1.5M structure early next month

June 21, 2018

Samantha Peone

Construction is wrapping up on a single-story medical office building with a project value of $1.5 million in the Riverstone Development in northwest Coeur d'Alene, says Dr. Wayne Ellenbecker, an optometrist. Ellenbecker and his wife, Dr. Cindy Ellenbe

$11 million advanced care center planned in Newport

Assisted-living facility to have total of 54 patient beds, memory care unit

June 21, 2018

Samantha Peone

Following a $10 million bond approval in April 2016, Pend Oreille County Public Hospital District No. 1, which operates Newport Hospital & Health Services, has begun laying concrete for its new $11.1 million River Mountain Village Advanced Care assisted-l

CHAS adds dental clinic to its Spokane Valley urgent care

$1.6 million remodel to be completed this summer

June 7, 2018

Virginia Thomas

Nonprofit health services provider Community Health Association of Spokane, better known as CHAS, is remodeling part of its Urgent Care-Valley location at 1502 N. Vercler to include a new dental clinic. Kelly Halverson, vice president of administrative s

Bouten Construction to build new Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery

Crisis center hopes to open larger facility in late 2020

June 7, 2018

Virginia Thomas

The Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery has named Spokane-based Bouten Construction Co. as the contractor for the crisis nursery's new 30,000-square-foot facility at 2230 E. Sprague, noting the construction company's past projects with NAC Architecture, the

WSU studies Medicaid access at rural pharmacies

Some regions of the state have fewer options than others, research shows

June 7, 2018

Samantha Peone

Community pharmacies located in rural areas across the state are less likely to contract with at least one Medicaid plan than pharmacies located in urban areas, preliminary results of research conducted through the Spokane-based Washington State Universit

Self-care strategies are part of professional success

A woman benefits from making time for herself

June 7, 2018

René Johnston

As a society, we women have been trained as mothers, wives, caregivers, and taught to be there for others to the point that if we take time to do something for ourselves, for our mental or physical health, it often comes with a large helping of guilt. Th

More women diagnosed with depression

Rate among Spokane females said higher than national average

June 7, 2018

Virginia Thomas

Women are being diagnosed with major depression at twice the rate of men, and Spokane women are being diagnosed at a rate higher than the national average, according to a recent report. The report released by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, major

An issue of substance

More Spokane women use drugs, alcohol, tobacco when pregnant, according to health district stats

June 7, 2018

LeAnn Bjerken

Recent data show prenatal use of marijuana, opioids, and other drugs is on the rise in Spokane County and could be a factor in increased cases of low birth weights here, say Spokane Regional Health District officials. In 2016, the most recent year for wh

Excelsior Youth Center leads formation of new care collaborative

Network designed to ease integration of health care

May 24, 2018

LeAnn Bjerken

Spokane nonprofit Excelsior Youth Center has teamed with two companies to establish Integrated Managed Care Collaborative, a new network tool aimed at helping behavioral health organizations prepare for the integration of health care in the Spokane region