Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Group Health closing CdA site

  June 14, 2011 in City on Page A10 Group Health Cooperative is closing its Coeur d’Alene Medical Center after failing to attract adequate numbers of patients. In a letter to patients, the Seattle-based organization said that “organization efforts … 1

• Group Health closing CdA clinic

  June 13, 2011 in City Group Health Cooperative is closing its Coeur d’Alene Medical Center after failing to sustain adequate numbers of patients. 15

• Caldwell: Health insurers should take hint from Blue Shield

  June 12, 2011 in Business on Page E1 If you want to thank anyone for enactment of President Obama’s health care reforms, those anyones would be Blue Shield of California and Anthem Blue Cross. That state’s two biggest … 2

• Group Health to acquire clinics

  April 16, 2011 in City on Page A1 Group Health Cooperative plans to buy one of Spokane’s largest family medicine practices. Columbia Medical Associates, which includes 30 primary care physicians who work in at least 12 clinics scattered … 7

• Group Health to buy Columbia Medical

  April 15, 2011 in City Group Health Cooperative plans to buy one of Spokane’s largest family medicine practices. Columbia Medical Associates, which includes 30 primary care physicians who work in 14 clinics scattered across the …

• Caldwell: Rate hikes pit Kreidler against insurers

  December 5, 2010 in Business on Page E1 Suppose the State of Washington had a six-month financial reserve, instead of a looming $385 million overdraft. Suppose, too, that Gov. Chris Gregoire was to propose a 14 percent tax … 8

• Medical professionals ensure skaters stay lithe, healthy

    January 20, 2010 in City on Page A1 Dr. Edward Reisman, 51, of Family Medicine Spokane, is volunteering at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Though he’s still athletic, he nurses some “war wounds” from his days as a …

• Group Health renews hospital pact

  December 21, 2009 in City on Page A6 Group Health Cooperative has renewed its contract to send all of its Spokane patients in need of hospitalization to Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Holy Family Hospital. The contract … 1

• New liver, new law

  January 1, 2009 in City on Page B1 Fred Watley rode a bike last summer. He roller-skates with his son. A couple of weeks ago, he shoveled snow until his wife shooed him back inside their Spokane home. …

• Shot of security

  October 2, 2007 in Features on Page D1 Getting vaccinated does not make the elderly bullet-proof against influenza, as many people believe, according to a paper co-authored by a Group Health researcher in Seattle. But don’t use that …