Health Care

WSU Spokane medical school process moves forward

Staff to submit document to address financial plan

November 5, 2015

The next step in the accreditation process for the proposed Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University Spokane is for administrators and staff to submit a self-study before the end of 2015 that tackles issues of future funding and s

Blood Center INBC issues pre-holiday pitch for donations

Donations tend to plummet when students take break

October 22, 2015

The Inland Northwest Blood Center is appealing to the community for blood and blood platelet donations before the holiday season arrives.

North Side orthopedic clinic brings on hand surgeon

Specialist is third physician at practice on North Side

October 22, 2015

LeAnn Bjerken

Orthopaedic Specialty Clinic of Spokane PLLC says it recently hired a new hand and upper extremity surgeon.

Northwest Orthopaedic welcomes new chief exec

Wunar is first nonphysician to hold practice's top post

October 22, 2015

LeAnn Bjerken

Northwest Orthopaedic Specialists PS says it has hired Robert J. Wunar as its new chief executive officer.

Another Spokane physician converts to direct care

Practice operates under alternative payment model

October 22, 2015

LeAnn Bjerken

A growing primary-care physician shortage combined with an increase in primary-care visits generated by the Affordable Care Act has some physicians here, such as Dr. Cody Ellefsen, looking at an alternative business model, called direct primary care.

Planned Parenthood set to build $5 million clinic

Organization to replace facility north of downtown

October 22, 2015

Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho has submitted a building permit application to the city of Spokane for construction of a $5 million health and community education center north of downtown Spokane.

Rockwood Health rolls out virtual visits

Separately, it now takes urgent-care reservations

October 22, 2015

Mike McLean

Spokane-based Rockwood Health System has rolled out VirtualHealthNow, an online service that enables patients to obtain primary health care for nonemergency conditions at any time of day via video conference.

O'Hanlon relishes her new role as founding dean of EWU's health sciences college

Administrator looks to raise awareness of EWU offerings

October 22, 2015

Kim Crompton

Even though she's the founding dean of Eastern Washington University's recently created College of Health Science & Public Health, which began operating last fall on the higher-education campus east of downtown Spokane, Laureen O'Hanlon doesn't fe

Newport Hospital to construct $5.2 million health clinic

T.W. Clark aims to finish project in July

October 22, 2015

Mike McLean

Spokane general contractor T.W. Clark Construction LLC has started work on a new $5.2 million medical clinic on the Newport Hospital & Health Services campus, in Newport, Wash., about an hour's drive northeast of Spokane, via U.S 2. The 17,000-square-f

H-Source goes public on Canadian Securities Exchange

Spokane-based medical exchange looks to grow

October 22, 2015

Stacey Denny

Spokane-based H-Source Holdings Ltd., which owns young online medical marketplace H-Source Inc., went public on the Canadian Securities Exchange earlier this month. The company, which is trading under the symbol HSI, released 50 million shares, with a 3