Health Care

App to monitor wildfire smoke's effects on health

WSU College of Nursing, Urbanova in partnership to develop U-Track

February 10, 2022

Spokane-based technology company Urbanova and Washington State University's College of Nursing have partnered to design the mobile application, U-Track, to help mitigate and reduce health risks to young adults with asthma during wildfire events.

Guardian Angel to launch dementia care program

New protocol includes therapy, diet, treatment

February 10, 2022

Karina Elias

Guardian Angel Homes, a family-owned and operated retirement community established in Liberty Lake in 2003, plans to launch next month a new program designed to help slow cognitive decline. The program, called Enhance Protocol, will be available to all

Holman Gardens adapts to life during COVID era

Employees learn kitchen roles amid staffing gaps

February 10, 2022

Virginia Thomas

Holman Gardens Retirement Community has endured recent hard times through creativity and flexibility, administrator Linda Hubble says. Most recently, employees at the 96-unit facility have been cross-trained in culinary duties in order to cover staffing

Chief Execs' Exits: Spokane's changing leadership landscape

More INW organizations look to replace leaders, develop succession plans

February 10, 2022

Karina Elias

In Spokane and across the U.S., organizations are experiencing an unusual amount of turnover in leadership positions. Some of that can be attributed to a 'silver tsunami,â€ which demographers have been predicting for years and is creating a chasm

YMCA buys land for South Hill fitness facility

Structure envisioned along Glenrose would cost $30M to $40M to build

February 3, 2022

Erica Bullock

YMCA of the Inland Northwest has purchased 15 acres of vacant land for $3.4 million in the Moran Prairie neighborhood on Spokane's South Hill, where the nonprofit plans to build a new fitness facility.

Kootenai Health expands heart center on main campus

Three-story addition expected to be ready to open by July 2023

January 13, 2022

Erica Bullock

Kootenai Health has started construction of a $37.3 million heart center expansion on its main hospital campus in Coeur d'Alene. The heart center will grow to 13 operating rooms from 11 and expand to five procedure rooms from three to meet the needs

Paw Print Genetics acquired by Neogen

Michigan-based company buys Lisa Shaffer's latest Spokane-based venture

January 13, 2022

Virginia Thomas

Paw Print Genetics, the Spokane-based animal genetic testing company, has changed hands. Lansing, Michigan-based Neogen Corp. acquired Genetic Veterinary Sciences Inc., which does business as Paw Print Genetics, in a transaction that was completed last

Cancer Care Northwest expands services in Lewiston

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December 16, 2021

Karina Elias

Spokane Valley-based Cancer Care Northwest has partnered with St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, in Lewiston, Idaho, to offer radiation oncology physician services to patients in the Lewis-Clark Valley and surrounding area. The partnership brings

Health care systems brace for unknowns in new year

Lessons learned early in pandemic reducing ongoing fiscal impact

December 16, 2021

Karina Elias

It has been another financially volatile year for the health care industry in Spokane. With the discovery of the omicron variant, there are still too many unknowns to forecast what is in store for hospitals in 2022, say health care officials.

Parting Thoughts with Providence's Peg Currie

Chief executive, Providence Sacred Heart

December 16, 2021

Karina Elias

Peg Currie, chief executive of Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital and chief operating officer of Providence Inland Northwest Washington, is retiring at the end of next month. Currie is capping a 40-year health care career.