Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories, the Spokane-based national reference laboratory, has hired a new senior scientist, Dr. Heather Colburn, to head up Cinch, its consumer-based product line, says Dr. Francisco Velázquez, president and CEO of PAML.

Providence Health Care, the Spokane-based nonprofit network of hospitals, physician clinics, and other health care organizations and programs, says it contributed more than $133 million last year to provide services to thousands of needy residents through

Group Health Cooperative and Providence Health Care say they have established a name-CareUnity-and a brand for an 'accountable care organization” they founded jointly in 2012, and already are starting to see some care delivery improvements as a re

Maurine Cate has been named the new CEO of Deaconess Hospital, effective Aug. 4, after having earlier put on hold her initial acceptance of the job. Cate has served as CEO of 113-bed McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center, in Springfield, Ore., since 2007.

Incyte Diagnostics, of Spokane Valley, says it has acquired the assets of Accupath Laboratory Services Inc., a one-pathologist lab in Seattle, and Accupath's former owner, Dr. Robert R. Hasselbrack, has joined Incyte, where he will be heading up a compa

The Washington state Department of Labor and Industries is proposing to increase penalties for serious workplace safety violations to make them more in line with federal standards. The move, however, could disproportionately harm small businesses that ma

Mountlake Terrace, Wash.-based Premera Blue Cross, one of the Inland Northwest's largest providers of health care plans, has promoted Spokane-based Bill Akers to vice president and general manager of Premera's Washington Group Market, says Premera spo