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• Inland Imaging spins off IT unit

  May 25, 2012 in Business on Page A12 Spokane’s growing Inland Imaging LLC has spun off an information technology subsidiary, Nuvodia, with plans to become a nationwide provider of technology integration and services. During a Thursday breakfast hosted …

• Fighters with heart

  May 2, 2012 in City on Page A1 For some, it takes a lot of heart to finish the 12-kilometer Bloomsday course. No one knows that better than Troy Schlimgen and Erik Gelhar, two men who both have … 1

• Sacred Heart gets go-ahead to expand

  February 6, 2012 in Business, City Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center will be allowed to add 75 new patient beds under a legal settlement reached today. 5

• Ruling reduces Providence property tax bill by about one-third

  February 5, 2012 in City on Page B1 Providence Health Care is shaving $550,000 from its Spokane property tax bill each year as nonprofit hospitals across the state take advantage of a court ruling that extended them new … 8

• Valley Assembly Quilters blanket cancer patients with warmth

  December 29, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S1 Once a week a group of women gather at Valley Assembly of God Church, 15618 E. Broadway Ave., to quilt, discuss projects and share a devotional. But the main reason …

• Providence bringing billing jobs to Spokane

  December 7, 2011 in City on Page A1 Providence Health & Services is moving 250 medical billing jobs to Spokane from its headquarters in Renton, Wash. It’s the largest influx of new jobs by a single employer in … 6

• Spotlight: Local writer Spatz tops Spokane Arts Awards

  October 2, 2011 in Features on Page D4 The City of Spokane Arts Awards will be presented at the City Council meeting Monday, and here’s the list of winners:

• Medicaid cuts target ER visits

  September 3, 2011 in City on Page A1 Medical services for the poor are eroding in Washington state as budget cuts take hold. The latest round of Medicaid cutbacks will begin Oct. 1, including efforts to curb repeated … 23

• Sisters of Providence mark legacy with picnic for homeless

  July 8, 2011 in City on Page A6 Earl Spangle, who has spent all of his 79 years in Spokane, sat atop a rock wall and enjoyed every cold lick of his sherbet cone Thursday. “Just wonderful,” he …

• Wine event to benefit psychiatric programs

  June 9, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S4 Local wineries and wine lovers will come together to raise money for psychiatric programs at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children’s Hospital on Saturday at Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, …

• Hospital system’s CEO takes new role

  June 3, 2011 in City on Page A1 A management shake-up at Providence Health Care sends Dr. Andrew Agwunobi to a new corporate role as vice president of special projects and brings former Sacred Heart Medical Center chief …

• Providence shuffles Spokane leadership

  June 2, 2011 in City Dr. Andrew Agwunobi is leaving his leadership post overseeing two of Spokane’s largest hospitals, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Holy Family Hospital, while former Sacred Heart president Mike Wilson … 34

• Sacred Heart eliminates bacteria, lifts water restrictions

  May 19, 2011 in City on Page A5 Water restrictions were lifted Wednesday afternoon at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center after successful efforts to eradicate bacteria that can cause Legionnaires’ disease from the hospital’s water supply. Three patients …

• Sacred Heart attacks dangerous bacteria in water system

  May 4, 2011 in City on Page A5 Workers performed a chlorine flush of Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center’s water system Tuesday in hopes of killing clusters of bacteria that can cause Legionnaire’s disease. Some patients have gone …

• First steps taken in 1886 to build hospital that only needed name

  April 17, 2011 in Features on Page D1 Nearly 125 years ago, Spokane’s first hospital had a plot of land, a cornerstone and a plan for the future. The only thing it didn’t have, embarrassingly, was a name.

• Face Time: Sister Rosalie talks about Sacred Heart’s 125 years

  April 11, 2011 in City on Page A5 Sister Rosalie Locati, 68, has been part of the Sisters of Providence religious community for 49 years. In employee orientations, Locati – director of mission and values for Providence Sacred … 5

• INHS case reaches settlement

  March 11, 2011 in City on Page A5 Deaconess Medical Center has severed its 17-year partnership stake in Inland Northwest Health Services as part of a lawsuit settlement announced Thursday. The governing board of INHS will now be …

• Counting the costs of care

  March 5, 2011 in City on Page A1 Spokane County’s hospitals provided $128.1 million in free medical care to the region’s poorest people last year as unemployment, chronic disease and the high cost of health care continue to … 9

• Special needs kids find caring home with the Beuhls

  January 20, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page N1 The first phone call came almost 20 years ago. It was about a tiny child at St. Anne’s Children Home with shaken baby syndrome. The baby was so frail and …

• Patients caught in hospital politics

  December 16, 2010 in City on Page A1 These are the places where the fragility of life is on full display. Dozens of babies born months early, too little and too weak to breastfeed, their tiny lungs unable … 13

• Project puts defibrillators in schools

  December 2, 2010 in City on Page A1 Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center is delivering defibrillators to area high schools after a spike in the incidence of cardiac arrest among young people and adults. Installing the devices was … 1

• Free medical services soar at region’s hospitals

  November 28, 2010 in City on Page B1 Spokane hospitals have given away $53.3 million worth of medical care to the poor during the first nine months of this year as job losses and wage and benefit cuts … 5

• Providence bans tobacco

  November 16, 2010 in City on Page A5 Providence Health Care is banning tobacco use at all of its properties, including Sacred Heart Medical Center and Holy Family Hospital.

• Sacred Heart, Holy Family announce 46 more layoffs

  October 19, 2010 in City on Page A5 Sacred Heart Medical Center and Holy Family Hospital announced another 46 layoffs Monday, as the two Providence hospitals continue to adjust budgets to deal with a tough economy, fewer patients … 6

• Providence to close Deer Park rehab clinic

  September 29, 2010 in City on Page A5 Providence Health Care plans to close its Deer Park outpatient rehabilitation clinic this week.

• Rockwood surgeon to join Sacred Heart

  May 23, 2010 in City on Page B7 As local doctors increasingly align their practices with the region’s competing hospital systems, a busy orthopedic surgeon has left Rockwood Clinic and joined Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center. Dr. Tim …

• Volleyball injury turns fatal for Gonzaga student

  April 2, 2010 in Region The friends and family of a 22-year-old Gonzaga student from the Tri-Cities are shocked by her sudden death in Spokane.

• Nearly half of U.S. businesses have become anti-social

  March 28, 2010 in Business on Page E1 Larry Soehren says his company, Kiemle & Hagood, recently faced the choice whether to block employee access to popular social networking sites such as Facebook. According to one survey, slightly … 7

• 16 heart patients get new lease on life

  March 16, 2010 in City on Page A5 KIGALI, Rwanda – Felicite Mukarubuga’s hands trembled as she took the pen and consent forms. The 22-year-old Rwandan woman listened while Dr. Hal Goldberg of Spokane Cardiology thoroughly explained a … 1

• Police say man hit by car was targeted

  February 26, 2010 in City on Page A6 A pedestrian struck by a car on the lower South Hill this week was targeted, Spokane police said Thursday. 1

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