Health Care

Inland Northwest Blood Center looks to solve drop in demand

Hospitals are buying less blood as cost-savings measure, center CEO says

September 11, 2014

Spokane-based nonprofit Inland Northwest Blood Center is endeavoring to maintain revenue while hospital demand for blood is decreasing and donations of blood are declining. INBC President and CEO Jeff Bryant says that as hospitals look to cut costs, buy

Washington Alliance of Teaching Physicians plugs creation of medical school in Spokane

UW alone doesn't satisfy state's needs, group says

September 11, 2014

Mike McLean

The Washington Alliance of Teaching Physicians is stepping up its efforts to support a fully accredited medical school in Spokane, say Spokane physicians Jeremy Graham and Henry Mroch, spokesmen for the ad hoc group. Representatives of ATP, which is made

INHS CEO Tom Fritz to retire

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September 4, 2014

Staff Report

Inland Northwest Health Services CEO Tom Fritz will retire at the end of this year, the organization announced today. Fritz, 62, has served as CEO of INHS for 16 years. The organization, which operates St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute, Northwest M

Suit by former Rockwood Clinic CFO gets green light

Exec claims he was let go for not understating losses

August 28, 2014

Kim Crompton

A former chief financial officer for Rockwood Clinic PS who claims he essentially was fired for refusing to doctor an earnings projection for the big health provider network here can proceed to trial with his lawsuit for wrongful discharge, an appellate c

Children's Home Society opens North Side mental health facility

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August 14, 2014

Staff Report

The Children's Home Society of Washington, a Seattle-based child-advocacy nonprofit, has opened a mental health office in the Northeast Community Center, at 4001 N. Cook. The office will provide children and families in north Spokane greater access to

Life sciences recruitment startup launches here

Business plans to hire more staff next month

August 14, 2014

Katie Ross

Two veterans of the life sciences industry have partnered to form a new biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry talent recruitment business here, called Celere LLC. Former Jubilant HollisterStier CEO Marcelo Morales and Justin Rayment, who owns a sepa

When domestic violence comes into the workplace

Last month's murder-suicide at Deaconess shines a light

August 14, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Kristen Otoupalik, longtime friend of Sheena Henderson, 30, who was killed by her husband Christopher Henderson, 37, at Deaconess Hospital last month, says she never will forget the text she received from her friend minutes before the shooting where Sheen

North Side OB-GYN clinic embraces less invasive trend

OB-GYN clinic sees about 300 patients each week

July 31, 2014

Katie Ross

Associates for Women's Health, a general obstetrics and gynecology practice here, is seeing trends of women wanting less invasive treatments with quicker recovery time, says Dr. Robert Milligan, a partner at the practice.

Amy Doneen: Curbing cardiac events

Bale/Doneen Method places emphasis on early detection

July 31, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Amy Doneen is a nurse practitioner, an author, an international speaker, and a business owner. She is in the business of preventing heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes. She is also co-founder of the Bale/Doneen Method of heart attack, stroke,Â and diabe

Federal rules update pregnancy-discrimination safeguards

Guidance lifts awareness here of worker protections

July 31, 2014

Mike McLean

Recent enforcement guidance issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission signals that the federal agency is targeting pregnancy-related discrimination as an area of emphasis, say knowledgeable observers, who add that Washington state also has rob