Though money for research has risen steadily in recent years at Washington State University Health Sciences Spokane, officials are concerned a prolonged global pandemic could have a compromising effect on future funding.

Tacoma, Washington-based MultiCare Health System has made a series of changes to its Spokane-area leadership team.

Spokane-area health care providers want to ramp up coronavirus testing-a necessary step to return to business as somewhat usual-but persistent testing kit shortages continue to hamper their efforts.

Plans for two medical office buildings-one on Spokane's lower South Hill and the other in the northwest part of the city-have a combined project valuation of at least $6.5 million, according to city permit applications.

Spokane Valley-based pathology services company Incyte Diagnostics has launched a new clinical testing laboratory to serve hospitals and clinics throughout the northwestern U.S.

Keith Fauerso, executive director of the Cheney Care Community senior living home, says quarantine measures implemented due the coronavirus pandemic only have furthered the isolation experienced among those who are the most susceptible to the virus.

Spokane Treatment and Recovery Services expects to erect a 64-bed, 42,000-square-foot integrated behavioral health treatment facility and medical clinic on East Nora Avenue, in Spokane Valley, by the middle of next year.

Gonzaga University is involved in two projects with total construction value of just over $116 million. Gonzaga and University of Washington have committed to a long-term lease for space in the envisioned, $60 million health sciences building.

People who know Tom Tiffany describe him as a science enthusiast with a knack for strategizing, traits that served him well in his career in the medical laboratory industry. 'I was always enamored with the sciences,” he says.