A Washington state appellate court panel here recently rejected a lawsuit against Spokane's Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital and related parties that was predicated partly on what's called a 'lost chance†malpractice
Patricia Butterfield, dean of Washington State University's College of Nursing, will leave the dean post and return to a faculty role next April.
She currently directs nursing education at WSU's campuses in Spokane, Vancouver, Tri-Cities, and Yakima
CareUnity, the accountable-care organization developed two years ago by Group Health Cooperative and Providence Health Care, has hired Dr. Jeffrey Liles as its chief medical officer.
A new online resource for Spokane entrepreneurs, called StartupSpokane.com, is getting attention from both users and people who want to pay it forward and help entrepreneurs, says Robin Toth, Greater Spokane Incorporated vice president of business develop
Washington state's nursing leaders are continuing to make momentous progress toward reaching the national goal of creating a highly educated, diverse nursing workforce that will be better prepared to take care of all people now and in the future.
Ken Tuntland, owner of Spokane Valley grocery store Barney's Harvest Foods, has opened an outlet of Chicago-based retailer-owned cooperative hardware chain True Value Co. inside the store, he says.
Barney's Harvest Foods, which operates under the co
The Spokane Regional Transportation Council has rolled out its 2015-to-2018 transportation improvement program for Spokane County, which contains 96 projects totaling $304 million.
Anna Ragaza-Bourassa, a senior transportation planner with SRTC, says th
Spokane Valley-based Pediatric Home Care Inc. focuses on enhancing the quality of life of medically fragile children, by helping young patients to live at home despite their needs for intensive medical intervention, says Ruth Seignemartin, administrator a
Debbie Shipman has been named president of the Northwest Business Development Association, and longtime president Gil Acevedo plans to stay on with the nonprofit to help with the transition until May, when he plans to retire.
Shipman says her goal for th
Thirty-two years ago, Bill Bialkowsky was a young father and husband living in Spokane and working as a sales rep for an oil company. He had zero experience with social services or professional child care, much less any knowledge about how to start and ru