Health Care

Spokane groups set goals for upcoming legislative session

Agenda for Spokane area includes transportation, education fund requests

December 5, 2013

A roundup of regional priorities here for the 2014 session of the Washington Legislature focuses mostly on transportation and education projects and programs totaling more than $1 billion, although most of that would be for multiyear construction projects

INHS restructured so Providence is lone member

Empire Health Foundation receives $40 million donation as part of move

November 7, 2013

Linn Parish

The Empire Health Foundation will discontinue its role as a member of Inland Northwest Health Services, leaving Providence Health Care as INHS's lone member. As part of the restructuring, Providence is making a $40 million donation to the a joint a

Blue Room adds to rural hospital work

Small architectural firm designing medical center planned in North Dakota

November 7, 2013

Kim Crompton

Spokane-based Blue Room Architecture & Design PS says it and its team of local consulting engineers is beginning work on the design of a $25 million replacement hospital in Bowman, N.D., a small town in the southwest corner of that state.John is

PAML creates new division for age-management testing

Aion to compete nationwide in growing medical field

November 7, 2013

Mike McLean

Spokane-based Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories LLC has launched a new testing division named Aion Laboratories, which specializes in diagnostics in the growing field of age-management medicine, says Patty Sipes, PAML senior vice president

Deaconess Hospital names new CEO

Oregon administrator Maurine Cate to start at medical center in January

November 7, 2013

Linn Parish

Deaconess Hospital has appointed Maurine Cate as its new CEO. She's expected to start in January.Cate currently is CEO of McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center, in Springfield, Ore., where she has served as CEO since 2007. Community Health Systems

Tax experts plot strategies to soften blows of rate jump

Affordable Care Act said having sizable impact on taxpayers

October 24, 2013

Mike McLean

The largest year-over-year individual tax increases in at least a decade are in effect, and high-income earners who haven't planned for them might be in for a shock, tax preparers here say.Many middle-income taxpayers also might be surprised by

SCC to start classes for caregivers wanting to become nursing aides

In Brief

October 24, 2013

Journal Danals

Spokane Community College plans to start two new courses for certification as a nursing assistant, known as an NAC. Jane Branda, NAC program director at SCC, says the school will offer the medical assistant certified and home care aide certified

Maternity center project progresses

-Art Only

October 24, 2013

Staff Report

Summer Gilstrap, nurse manager for the Family Maternity Center at Providence Holy Family Hospital, sits in a model maternity suite that's part of a $9.5 million expansion and remodel of the center. The project is scheduled to be completed early

Providence, INBC team up to streamline blood supply

Improvements to include increased communication, hospital vending machines

October 24, 2013

Staff Report

Providence Health Care, the big health-services network here, and Inland Northwest Blood Center say they've entered into a five-year agreement aimed at streamlining blood-management services and improving patient care.The two organizations say a

Obesity places burden on bottom line

Meaningful intervention will require multifaceted effort, workplace support

October 24, 2013

Robin Pickering

It's been said that "health is wealth," and it's becoming more evident to employers that the opposite is also true. According to the Workforce Wellness Index, unhealthy behaviors among the U.S. workforce cost employers annually a total of in