Virginia Thomas

Reporter Virginia Thomas has worked at the Journal since 2017 and covers the health care industry. As a reporter, she loves learning about Spokane's many growing industries. She enjoys traveling with her husband, snuggling with her cats, and cross stitching.

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Mobile medicine looks to cover health care gaps

Two separate services gear up in Spokane area
October 24, 2019
Virginia Thomas
Two separate health care partnerships here - one involving MultiCare Health System and the other involving Washington State University - have created relationships with mobile health care services to provide treatment for different patient populations
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East Central center adds Head Start space

CHAS dental clinic will replace classroom building
October 10, 2019
Virginia Thomas
The East Central Community Center is adding space to its building to serve an Early Head Start program. Carolina Lopez, executive assistant at the Martin Luther King Family Outreach Center, which operates the community center, says work to renovate three
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Union Gospel Mission plans two new stores

Projects in early stages; one property purchased
October 10, 2019
Virginia Thomas
Union Gospel Mission Association of Spokane plans to expand its thrift store operations by adding two new outlets in the next few years. Dean Bitz, director of operations for the nonprofit, says the projects are still in the early planning stages, but
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Virginia Thomas

OAC Services focuses on client, employee relationships

Project manager predicts more design-build jobs
October 10, 2019
Virginia Thomas
When Jeff Jurgensen opened the Spokane office of Seattle-based construction and project management company OAC Services Inc. in 2006, he noticed a distinct lack of project management companies here, he says. Jurgensen, senior associate of construction
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Parting Thoughts With Dave Newton of Odom Corp.

Account exec reflects on 35 years working in the beverage industry
October 10, 2019
Virginia Thomas
Dave Newton has been with beverage distribution company The Odom Corp. for nearly 20 years, 15 of which he's spent as senior chain account executive. When Odom came to the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene market, Newton opened its first Coeur d'Alene
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Virginia Thomas

Postpartum depression is more than 'baby blues'

Perinatal mood disorders include anxiety, PTSD
October 10, 2019
Virginia Thomas
As many as one in five mothers experience postpartum depression, says Spokane-based licensed independent clinical social worker and therapist Corynn Manske. 'We pretty much all know somebody, whether we know it or not, who has gone through it,”
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Hardwick & Sons moves ahead in Post Falls

Former Seattle hardware store operator plans mid-2020 opening
October 10, 2019
Virginia Thomas
Hardwick & Sons hardware store has selected a site along east Mullan Avenue in Post Falls for its new store, the architect on the project says. Mark Latham, owner of Post Falls-based ML Architect & Associates Inc., says a 22,000-square-foot building
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15th annual Fall Festival of Homes kicks off this weekend

Local builders spotlight 30 newly-constructed homes throughout county
September 26, 2019
Virginia Thomas
The Spokane Home Builders Association is holding its 15th annual Fall Festival of Homes over the next two weekends. SHBA executive officer Joel White says the festival will feature 30 homes newly constructed by 19 different builders
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