Health Care

Cd'A orthopedic practice to open second clinic here

Meridian doing $500,000 in improvements for tenant

October 9, 2014

Meridian Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, is working on a nearly $500,000 tenant improvement project in the medical district on the lower South Hill, where a growing orthopedic practice currently based in Coeur d'Alene plans to open a second clinic

Bloom's birth resource

Organization also offering Birth Options class online

October 9, 2014

Katie Ross

Bloom Spokane, the Spokane and Coeur d'Alene area nonprofit chapter of BirthNetwork National, has released its first Hospital Maternity Guide that shows childbirth options offered by area hospitals, says Bloom founder Tine Reese and Birth Options progra

Women veteran in Spokane seeking aid for depression, PTSD

Military sexual trauma also common in female vets

October 9, 2014

Judith Spitzer

In 2008, when Cindy Jayne, 52, retired after serving 22 years in the U.S. Naval Reserve, she was angry, depressed, drinking heavily, and had threatened suicide more than once. She wasn't technically homeless, she says, but she spent the better part of a

Spokane medical-benefits broker to add new division

VEBA planning to hire six employees initially

September 25, 2014

Katie Ross

Spokane medical benefit broker VEBA Service Group is planning to open a call center division here on Jan. 1, says Mark Wilkerson, area president for VEBA. The company, located in 8,400 square feet of space at 906 W. Second downtown, will be hiring six c

WSU's University District Health Clinic gets green light

$16.25 million project set to get started yet this year

September 25, 2014

Katie Ross

The Washington State University Board of Regents has approved the sale of up to $16.25 million in revenue bonds, to be used for the design and construction of its planned University District Health Clinic, east of downtown Spokane. The two-story, 42,000

$19.2 million expansion at Sacred Heart advances - Art Only

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September 11, 2014

Mike McLean

Providence Holy Family in mediation with union

Nurses' wages said to lag behind Sacred Heart's

September 11, 2014

Judith Spitzer

The Seattle-based Washington State Nurses Association, which represents more than 400 registered nurses at Providence Holy Family Hospital in north Spokane, are in mediation talks with hospital administrators over pay that they contend lags behind that of

Insurance broker aims to simplify Obamacare

Welk writes book, creates website to aid consumers

September 11, 2014

Kim Crompton

Independent insurance broker Robert S. Welk, who owns Welk Security & Trust on Spokane's North Side, isn't interested in offering his personal views on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as the Affordable Care Act or O

Sacred Heart adds recently approved surgical robot

Newer technology can be used on more procedures

September 11, 2014

Linn Parish

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital has bought and installed the newest generation of the DaVinci robotic surgery device, a machine that' it expects will enable it to perform surgeries it hadn't been able to do robotically.

New employer-owned health care plan launches here

Alternative offering stresses primary care, overall health

September 11, 2014

Katie Ross

Spokane-based Rockwood Health System has partnered with Cary, N.C.-based health care technology company Physician Care Direct to offer its Employer Health Ownership Plan (EHOP) here as an alternative to traditional third-party health insurance plans.