Company's new managing partner says demand for financial help is high
March 10, 2016
In an effort to meet rising customer demands for its products and services here, Northwestern Mutual-Inland Northwest expects to add 30 new advisers and 30 interns this year across its nine regional offices, managing partner Paul Hanson says.
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The Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund last year made 54 grants totaling more than $360,000 to 36 direct service providers in the Inland Northwest.
The charitable foundation's founders, Don Barbieri and Sharon Smith, say it's a drop in the bucket, howe
Spokane-based information technology company Nuvodia LLC, having separated geographically from its parent company Inland Imaging last year, is expanding into other areas of medicine and strengthening its newfound foothold in the energy sector.
Last June
Spokane nonprofit Beyond Pink is advocating for breast thermography as an early-screening method for breast cancer-and having success in getting more women to take the test.
While the American Medical Association and others have yet to embrace the tec
Inland Northwest Health Services' rebranded information-technology division, called Engage, has expanded its national footprint and accelerated its growth.
The 15-year-old, information-management concern needed an upgrade, says new Engage chief execut
Dr. John Tomkowiak, Washington State University's inaugural dean for the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, is carrying on the legacy of the medical school's namesake by implementing a few innovative ideas of his own.
Tomkowiak, whose medical backgr
$1.8 billion acquisition still at least a year away
February 25, 2016
Continuous change in the health care industry served as the driving impetus for Group Health Cooperative as it started pursuing a partner a few years ago.
That pursuit culminated at the end of last year when Oakland-based health insurer Kaiser Permanente
More hospitality management students are showing interest in the senior housing management niche, says Nancy Swanger, a professor with Washington State University's School of Hospitality who oversees a class on senior housing management.
The school fi
Hennessey Funeral Home & Crematory, of Spokane, has added industry veteran Dennis Murphy to its staff.
Murphy, who has been involved in funerary services here for more than 20 years, retired recently as president of Heritage Funeral Home, and says, 'I
Approaching 80, Brockett still has his mind on law
February 11, 2016
Donald C. Brockett spent 33 years working in the Spokane County Prosecutor's Office, 25 of those as the office's lead attorney. He's argued cases at nearly every judicial level, including before the U.S. Supreme Court in the mid-1970s.
Now, Brocket