Health Care

Chinese billionaire now largest investor in Community Health Systems

Chen has 10 percent of big hospital operator

August 25, 2016

Chinese billionaire Tianqiao Chen and a group of companies in which he is sole or majority owner reported in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing earlier this month that they now own about 11.3 million shares, or 9.9 percent, of Community Health Sy

Parental-leave plans expand for select few

Enhanced benefits said part of effort to attract, retain talent

August 25, 2016

Kristin Wardwell faced the dilemma millions of working women have faced through the years. She believed she'd landed a great job with a great company-Coeur d'Alene-based marketing agency JEBCommerce LLC-but she and her husband wanted to start a f

Permit mapper expands reach to include Spokane

Customers can access up to 10 years of records

August 11, 2016

Samantha Peone

San Francisco-based BuildZoom has released a building permit map of Spokane as part of its larger Permit Mapping project, says a press release from the company. The Permit Mapping project consists of every remodeling and construction license within the p

â€”Barry Nance rendering courtesy Spokane Chiropractic & Sports Injury Clinic

Medical, fitness interests slated for new Wandermere structure

Work gets underway on $1.6 million building

August 11, 2016

Mike McLean

Spokane chiropractor Brian Mather and construction executive Tim Ayers have formed a development company that's constructing a $1.6 million, multitenant medical-office and sports-training building in the Wandermere area. The development company, Field

Rockwood Health owner reports $1.43 billion loss

Community Health Systems looks to trim more hospitals

August 11, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

Community Health Systems Inc., the Tennessee-based hospital operator that owns Rockwood Health System in Spokane, has reported a $1.43 billion second-quarter loss, compared with net income of $111 million for the same period last year. Noncash goodwill i

Apex Therapy grows in its incontinence treatment

All clinics soon will have gynecology therapists

July 28, 2016

Here's how Amy Sanderson, a certified pelvic-floor practitioner for Apex Physical Therapy, describes how she finds satisfaction in the work that she does, helping treat women battling urinary incontinence. 'At the end of treatment, my patient came in

Finding time for breast-feeding in the workplace

Area agencies try to support both employees, employers

July 28, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

For many Spokane-area mothers, returning to work also means finding both the time and privacy to be able to breast-feed their newborn, or to express breast milk during work hours. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's most recent Breast Feed

Bioidentical hormone therapy benefits touted

Health organizations seek research to assess claims about alternative

July 28, 2016

Mike McLean

A practitioner and a pharmacist working in the same building in the Spokane medical district claim that bioidentical hormones are becoming the hormones of choice for women. Hormone replacement therapy has become more refined, they say, in the years foll

Cd'A optometry practice moves to relocate to Riverstone

Ironwood Vision Center to more than double space

July 28, 2016

Mike McLean

Daniel Garn, owner of Elite Eyecare PC, which does business as Ironwood Vision Center, has bought a 5,100-square-foot office building in the Riverstone mixed-use development in Coeur d'Alene and plans to move the practice there in September. The single

Creator of dental referral app expands network

Orthodontist here devised Refer.to to simplify process

July 28, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

Spokane creator of Refer.to, a Web application that enables dentists to send referral information digitally to colleagues and patients, has begun expanding the number of dental offices within its network. Orthodontist Josh Johnson came up with the idea