Health Care

Sacred Heart reduces rate of C-section births

After record high, hospital worked to lower surgeries

December 3, 2015

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital has reduced Cesarean sections in recent years to a level a doctor here says is more acceptable and beneficial for the long-term health of mothers.

Mental health crisis center to open in Cd'A

Former FBI agent named to head behavioral facility

December 3, 2015

Mike McLean

Idaho's second state-funded mental health crisis center will open on Dec. 9 in Coeur d'Alene.

WSU team to lead study of ACA effect on disabled

$2.5 million, federally funded project set to last five years

December 3, 2015

Staff Report

A Washington State University researcher will lead a $2.5 million examination of the federal Affordable Care Act's impact on what might be the largest group in need of its services: people with disabilities.

Teaching health clinic enclosed

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December 3, 2015

Mike McLean

Bouten Construction Co., of Spokane, appears to have structural work mostly completed for the Spokane Teaching Health Center's $15 million University District Health Clinic, which is located at the southeast edge of the Washington State University Spoka

Occupational medicine's presence expands

Providence program said currently serving 3,000 injured workers annually

December 3, 2015

LeAnn Bjerken

Just over a year old, Providence Health Care's occupational medicine program has grown quickly, with plans to expand next spring, adding a third location from which to provide its services.

$1 million physical therapy clinic slates on South Hill

Practice to move just north of current location

December 3, 2015

Construction of a new, 7,000-square-foot physical therapy clinic is slated to start next spring on Spokane's South Hill and to be completed that summer, says the project's architect. Shane Mercier, owner of Mercier Architecture & Planning, has desig

Health enrollment plans said likely to increase

Officials cite improvements to plans, payment process

December 3, 2015

LeAnn Bjerken

Washington Healthplanfinder, the online health insurance marketplace operated by the Washington Health Benefit Exchange, recently launched its third open enrollment period, which runs from Nov. 1 through Jan. 31, and some observers say they expect the num

Cooney Law plans to move to larger space next year

Practice has been based in Garland District since '49

November 5, 2015

Citing an inability to grow in its current location, Cooney Law Offices PS will leave its home of 66 years in the Garland Business District, at 910 W. Garland, and relocate next year to the northeast corner of Washington Street and Indiana Avenue. The Co

Couple begins expansion, remodel of Cheney hotel

Project to add 46 rooms, cost about $4.7 million

November 5, 2015

Construction started last week on a $4.7 million expansion and renovation of the Holiday Inn Express & Suites at 111 Betz Road, in Cheney. The hotel's general manager, Dori Byrd, says the planned expansion is desperately needed. 'Last year, we had 9

Rockwood Health owner reports softer earnings

CEO cites several factors, including admissions drop

November 5, 2015

LeAnn Bjerken

Community Health Systems Inc., the publicly traded, Franklin, Tenn.-based medical facilities operator that owns Rockwood Health System in Spokane, reported this week that its earnings declined in the third quarter. CHS reported third-quarter net income a