Spokane – the Inland Northwest’s Medical Powerhouse

Hospitals

With one of the largest concentrations of medical services in a four state region, Spokane is a hub for comprehensive health services, education, research and development. Six major hospitals and over 1,000 health-related businesses employ a workforce of 35,000, making the health care industry the largest employer in the region.

Providence Health Care has grown from a 31-bed facility in 1886 to a major regional medical center overseeing Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children’s Hospital, Providence Holy Family Hospital, Providence Heart Institute, assisted-living facilities, an in-home health care agency and other health care resources.

With 644 beds, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children’s Hospital operates a regional cancer center, transplant center, specialty care and the only Level II Pediatric Trauma Center in Eastern Washington.

In 2013, Providence broke ground on Providence Medical Park, a $58 million medical campus in Spokane Valley that will provide outpatient services from primary care to urgent care, imaging and pharmacy.

The Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center provides primary and secondary care to veterans with a 46-bed hospital and 38 rehabilitation-oriented nursing home beds.  A mobile clinic provides selected primary care services to veterans in remote areas outside metropolitan Spokane. 

The Rockwood Health System oversees Deaconess Hospital, Valley Hospital and Rockwood Clinic. Serving the region for over 100 years, Deaconess Hospital is a 388-bed, acute care facility with a Level III Trauma Center, Spokane’s only certified chest pain center, an accredited primary stroke center and the area’s only bariatric surgery center of excellence. The full-service facility treats cancer, heart and vascular diseases and includes a maternal fetal medicine program and Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

The only full-service, tertiary care facility in eastern Spokane County, Valley Hospital’s 123-bed acute care hospital is a Level-III Trauma Center, has an accredited cancer institute and provides the area’s only joint commission-certified knee and hip replacement program.

The largest freestanding outpatient diagnostic and treatment center between Central Washington and Minneapolis, Rockwood Clinic operates12 primary clinical locations to provide medical, urgent and specialty care throughout Spokane and Coeur d’Alene.

One of 22 Shriner facilities in the United States, Canada and Mexico, Spokane’s Shriners Hospitals for Children provides comprehensive medical, surgical and rehabilitative care to children with club foot, burns, cleft lip and palate, orthopedic and neuromusculoskeletal disorders and diseases.

St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute is the only Level 1 trauma rehab center in Spokane and specializes in comprehensive inpatient and outpatient therapy sessions for children and adults. It is the state’s largest provider of rehabilitation services for stroke, spinal cord injury, head injury and injury or diseases to bones, joints or muscles.

Located in Coeur d’Alene, 254-bed Kootenai Health provides a comprehensive range of medical services to patients in North Idaho, eastern Washington and Montana at several facility locations.

Midway between Spokane and Coeur d’Alene in Post Falls, North Idaho Advanced Care Hospital provides long-term acute care and critical care services for patients recovering from serious illnesses or injuries, and Northwest Specialty Hospital is a 21-bed, multi-specialty hospital with the region’s only open air MRI.

Support Services

Inland Imaging has 60 subspecialty radiologists and nearly 500 staff members and provides business services, physician staffing, imaging centers, development and design of specific health care software for hospitals and imaging centers.

Providing specialized testing that requires instrumentation and technical staff, PAML (Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories) is considered an industry leader in joint venture partnerships with community-based hospitals and is ranked among the top reference laboratories in the nation.

Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS) works in a unique collaboration with hospitals, health care services and provides rural outreach to reduce health care costs. INHS manages Northwest MedStar, a critical care air transport service, and St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute.

Noting that 60-70 percent of medical decisions are either driven or influenced by pathology reports, Cellnetix provides state-of-the-art equipment and a well-trained team to quickly diagnose and report biopsy reports.

Radia’s board certified physicians provide professional services in diagnostic imaging, interventional radiology and vascular testing for multiple hospitals as well as free standing outpatient centers in the Inland Northwest and the State of Washington.

Bioscience Developments and Medical Education

Thanks to concerted community efforts, expansion of the Academic Health Science Center (AHSC), four full years of medical education are coming to fruition. The AHSC brings together a unique environment for learning – an inter-professional approach, where aspiring doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, researchers and other health professionals practice together.