Health Care

Providence Health eyes large merger

Partnership's potential impact here isn't clear

August 13, 2015

Providence Health & Services, the five-state health system that includes Spokane-based Providence Health Care, is in talks with another Catholic health system, St. Joseph Health, to combine into a single network that would reach from Anchorage, Alaska, to

Spokane-area parks departments foresee jump in ACA costs

City of Spokane reports larger surge than county

July 30, 2015

The city of Spokane Parks and Recreation Department estimates it faces a $60,000 per month increase in costs due to the Affordable Care Act. The ACA requires employers with more than 200 employees to enroll their employees automatically into the organiza

Chiropractic care comes home

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July 30, 2015

Treva Lind

Andrew Glanville has added wheels to his chiropractor toolbox. Make that the tires on the car he drives to his clients' doorsteps. As a doctor of chiropractic services, Glanville launched a mobile practice last April to treat patients in homes and offi

Tackling the complexities of multiple health problems

Spokane woman returns home to fight brain tumor

July 30, 2015

Treva Lind

Hayley Olson spent much of her 20s living life around health care issues, but she thought she'd turned a corner nearly two years ago.

Adapting first aid, CPR training to be used on infants

Providence instructor finds strong demand for classes

July 30, 2015

Kim Crompton

Providence Health Care class instructor Clair Bennett says an infant/child first aid and CPR class she proposed and then launched about a year and a half ago with the Spokane-based health care system's blessing is attracting the strong interest that she

In wake of Senator's inquiry, hospitals here say aid to sexual assault victims is good

Broad review sought over treatment inconsistencies

July 30, 2015

Spokane-area hospital officials say they have the appropriate trained staff and forensic rape kit tests to treat sexual assault victims properly.

Mammograms go 3-D at Inland Imaging

Radiology practice hopes for better results, fewer false positives

July 30, 2015

Linn Parish

Inland Imaging LLC is going 3-D in its mammography imaging units, installing new breast tomosynthesis machines that it hopes will find cancer earlier and reduce false positives.

Silvey Construction: Building a healthy niche

Mike Silvey enjoys putting building pieces together

July 16, 2015

Even Mike Silvey has to chuckle somewhat as he ponders the success of the company over which he presides-Spokane Valley-based Silvey Construction Inc.

Former INHS CEO Tom Fritz drowns

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July 14, 2015

Kim Crompton

Tom Fritz, 63, who retired at the end of last year as CEO of Spokane-based Inland Northwest Health Services, drowned in Lake Coeur d'Alene yesterday, apparently after falling off of his fishing boat near the south end of the lake while fishing alone.

Sacred Heart tabbed as regional treatment center

Hospital here one of nine nationally to garner grants

July 2, 2015

Staff Report

The Washington state Department of Health says a five-year federal grant announced last month will help prepare Spokane's Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital to better manage patients with Ebola and other severe, highly infect