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

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

Spokane Valley Cancer Center has joined the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Network, giving patients here expanded treatment options, says Dr. Arvind Chaudhry, a medical oncologist and director of the center. The Seattle Cancer Care Alliance also provides S

Hanger Inc., a national provider of prosthetic and orthotic products and related patient services, plans to move its Spokane clinic to the medical district on Spokane's lower South Hill, says Don Meng, the clinic's manager. The Austin, Texas-based co

Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories, the Spokane-based national reference laboratory, has hired a new senior scientist, Dr. Heather Colburn, to head up Cinch, its consumer-based product line, says Dr. Francisco Velázquez, president and CEO of PAML.

Providence Health Care, the Spokane-based nonprofit network of hospitals, physician clinics, and other health care organizations and programs, says it contributed more than $133 million last year to provide services to thousands of needy residents through

Group Health Cooperative and Providence Health Care say they have established a name-CareUnity-and a brand for an 'accountable care organization” they founded jointly in 2012, and already are starting to see some care delivery improvements as a re

Maurine Cate has been named the new CEO of Deaconess Hospital, effective Aug. 4, after having earlier put on hold her initial acceptance of the job. Cate has served as CEO of 113-bed McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center, in Springfield, Ore., since 2007.

Incyte Diagnostics, of Spokane Valley, says it has acquired the assets of Accupath Laboratory Services Inc., a one-pathologist lab in Seattle, and Accupath's former owner, Dr. Robert R. Hasselbrack, has joined Incyte, where he will be heading up a compa