Health Care

Cd'A fly fishing club uses sport to help women heal

Retreats offer camaraderie to breast cancer patients

January 15, 2015

The North Idaho Fly Casters, a fly-fishing club based out of Coeur d'Alene, is using the therapeutic benefits of nature and fly-fishing to help women who have or formerly had breast cancer recover both physically and mentally.

Year-old infertility clinic in Spokane Valley finds strong demand

SRM Spokane employs 11, offers range of services

January 15, 2015

Kim Crompton

SRM Spokane, a reproductive endocrinology and infertility practice that opened in Spokane Valley in October 2013, is seeing healthy growth in demand for services from patients throughout the Inland Northwest, says Dr. Brenda S. Houmard, who helped launch

Women's Health Connection Clinic expands

New Valley Clinic focuses on obesity consequences

January 15, 2015

Judith Spitzer

Dr. Debra Ravasia, Spokane gynecologist and founder of the Women's Health Connection Clinic and the Ajuva Medical Spa in North Spokane, says she has opened an additional office in Spokane Valley to accommodate new patients, and soon will add another phy

Reliant RX buys former Signature Genomics space

Specialty pharmacy to move there from University District

January 15, 2015

Linn Parish

Kroetch Investment Holdings LLC, which owns Reliant RX specialty pharmacy, has bought the former Signature Genomics Laboratories facility in north Spokane, with plans to move there and expand, Realtors involved in the transaction say. PerkinElmer Inc.,

Poll: Voters statewide back WSU medical school

Results shows differences in other areas, however

December 18, 2014

Judith Spitzer

While Washingtonians agree on issues such as whether environmental activism is too aggressive and hurts economic growth, Eastern Washington voters disagree over whether the state should have legalized recreational marijuana, say the findings of a new surv

Three-office occupational therapy provider acquired

Olympia-based concern buys Spokane practice

December 18, 2014

Mike McLean

Sean and Christina Sipe, owners of three Olympia, Wash.-area physical therapy practices, have bought the assets of Spokane Occupational & Hand Therapy Inc. The Spokane-based practice has offices at 601 W. Fifth near downtown, at 111 E. Central on the Nor

Health care sector still unsettled amid ACA rollout

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December 18, 2014

Judith Spitzer

The health care industry here expects to remain in a state of transition in the coming year as it continues to adapt to broad implementation of the federal Affordable Care Act.

Pullman hospital invests in bacteria-killing copper

Effort intended to help trim risk of infections

December 4, 2014

Staff Report

PULLMAN, Wash.-Pullman Re-gional Hospital, a level IV trauma center, says it has installed copper components throughout its facility as another way of reducing hospital-acquired infections and keeping patients safe.

CHAS buys multitenant building, plans new clinic

Valley operation will be nonprofit's 12th overall

December 4, 2014

Mike McLean

Community Health Association of Spokane, a Spokane-based nonprofit health services provider, has bought a multitenant building in Spokane Valley and plans to open its second Valley clinic in a portion of it, says Kelley Halverson, a CHAS spokeswoman. Hal

Lending Gonzaga health care expertise to West Africa

Professor travels to Benin to help open clinic, teach

December 4, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Susan Norwood, a nursing professor at Gonzaga University, recently traveled to the Republic of Benin, West Africa, as a Fulbright Scholar Specialist to help set up a new medical clinic and teach basic first aid to staff at a 'community sustainmentâ€ pr