Health Care

Providence starts work on $14 million St. Joseph Care Center project

Two floors of care center to undergo renovation

August 25, 2016

Construction started this month on a $14 million project at Providence St. Joseph Care Center that involves remodeling the entire first and second floors. Seattle-based MG2 Corp. designed the project, and Graham Construction & Management Inc., of Spokane

Frontier Behavioral Health to construct new clinic on East Sprague

Also secures new spaces in Valley, on the North Side

August 25, 2016

Frontier Behavioral Health says it plans to build a 15,000-square-foot, two-story intensive outpatient center at the southwest corner of Sprague Avenue and Lee Street, in East Spokane. The new office building will be just east of the Evergreen Club, whi

Chinese billionaire now largest investor in Community Health Systems

Chen has 10 percent of big hospital operator

August 25, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

Chinese billionaire Tianqiao Chen and a group of companies in which he is sole or majority owner reported in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing earlier this month that they now own about 11.3 million shares, or 9.9 percent, of Community Health Sy

Parental-leave plans expand for select few

Enhanced benefits said part of effort to attract, retain talent

August 25, 2016

Kristin Wardwell faced the dilemma millions of working women have faced through the years. She believed she'd landed a great job with a great company-Coeur d'Alene-based marketing agency JEBCommerce LLC-but she and her husband wanted to start a f

Permit mapper expands reach to include Spokane

Customers can access up to 10 years of records

August 11, 2016

Samantha Peone

San Francisco-based BuildZoom has released a building permit map of Spokane as part of its larger Permit Mapping project, says a press release from the company. The Permit Mapping project consists of every remodeling and construction license within the p

â€”Barry Nance rendering courtesy Spokane Chiropractic & Sports Injury Clinic

Medical, fitness interests slated for new Wandermere structure

Work gets underway on $1.6 million building

August 11, 2016

Mike McLean

Spokane chiropractor Brian Mather and construction executive Tim Ayers have formed a development company that's constructing a $1.6 million, multitenant medical-office and sports-training building in the Wandermere area. The development company, Field

Rockwood Health owner reports $1.43 billion loss

Community Health Systems looks to trim more hospitals

August 11, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

Community Health Systems Inc., the Tennessee-based hospital operator that owns Rockwood Health System in Spokane, has reported a $1.43 billion second-quarter loss, compared with net income of $111 million for the same period last year. Noncash goodwill i

Apex Therapy grows in its incontinence treatment

All clinics soon will have gynecology therapists

July 28, 2016

Here's how Amy Sanderson, a certified pelvic-floor practitioner for Apex Physical Therapy, describes how she finds satisfaction in the work that she does, helping treat women battling urinary incontinence. 'At the end of treatment, my patient came in

Finding time for breast-feeding in the workplace

Area agencies try to support both employees, employers

July 28, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

For many Spokane-area mothers, returning to work also means finding both the time and privacy to be able to breast-feed their newborn, or to express breast milk during work hours. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's most recent Breast Feed

Bioidentical hormone therapy benefits touted

Health organizations seek research to assess claims about alternative

July 28, 2016

Mike McLean

A practitioner and a pharmacist working in the same building in the Spokane medical district claim that bioidentical hormones are becoming the hormones of choice for women. Hormone replacement therapy has become more refined, they say, in the years foll