Health Care

INHS CEO Tom Fritz to retire

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September 4, 2014

Inland Northwest Health Services CEO Tom Fritz will retire at the end of this year, the organization announced today. Fritz, 62, has served as CEO of INHS for 16 years. The organization, which operates St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute, Northwest M

Suit by former Rockwood Clinic CFO gets green light

Exec claims he was let go for not understating losses

August 28, 2014

Kim Crompton

A former chief financial officer for Rockwood Clinic PS who claims he essentially was fired for refusing to doctor an earnings projection for the big health provider network here can proceed to trial with his lawsuit for wrongful discharge, an appellate c

Children's Home Society opens North Side mental health facility

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August 14, 2014

Staff Report

The Children's Home Society of Washington, a Seattle-based child-advocacy nonprofit, has opened a mental health office in the Northeast Community Center, at 4001 N. Cook. The office will provide children and families in north Spokane greater access to

Life sciences recruitment startup launches here

Business plans to hire more staff next month

August 14, 2014

Katie Ross

Two veterans of the life sciences industry have partnered to form a new biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry talent recruitment business here, called Celere LLC. Former Jubilant HollisterStier CEO Marcelo Morales and Justin Rayment, who owns a sepa

When domestic violence comes into the workplace

Last month's murder-suicide at Deaconess shines a light

August 14, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Kristen Otoupalik, longtime friend of Sheena Henderson, 30, who was killed by her husband Christopher Henderson, 37, at Deaconess Hospital last month, says she never will forget the text she received from her friend minutes before the shooting where Sheen

North Side OB-GYN clinic embraces less invasive trend

OB-GYN clinic sees about 300 patients each week

July 31, 2014

Katie Ross

Associates for Women's Health, a general obstetrics and gynecology practice here, is seeing trends of women wanting less invasive treatments with quicker recovery time, says Dr. Robert Milligan, a partner at the practice.

Amy Doneen: Curbing cardiac events

Bale/Doneen Method places emphasis on early detection

July 31, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Amy Doneen is a nurse practitioner, an author, an international speaker, and a business owner. She is in the business of preventing heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes. She is also co-founder of the Bale/Doneen Method of heart attack, stroke,Â and diabe

Federal rules update pregnancy-discrimination safeguards

Guidance lifts awareness here of worker protections

July 31, 2014

Mike McLean

Recent enforcement guidance issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission signals that the federal agency is targeting pregnancy-related discrimination as an area of emphasis, say knowledgeable observers, who add that Washington state also has rob

Sacred Heart plans $19.2 million expansion, remodel

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July 22, 2014

Staff Report

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital announced this afternoon plans for a $19.2 million expansion and remodel of its adult cardiac intensive care unit. Construction is scheduled to start July 28 and to be completed in spring o

Longtime health care executive Gerard Fischer joins Group Health Cooperative

Fischer had been with Providence for 16 years

July 17, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Gerard Fischer, who served for 16 years on Spokane's Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital and Providence Holy Family Hospital's senior leadership team, joined the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle as vice president of clini