INHS

Specialties

–Information Resource Management (IRM)

–Critical Care Transport (Northwest MedStar)

–Rehabilitation Services (St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute)

–Video Conferencing Network (Northwest TeleHealth)

–Community Wellness

–Health Training

History

Established in 1994.

Services began under the name Inland Northwest Health Services. Executives from Spokane’s four major hospitals — Deaconess Medical Center, Providence Holy Family Hospital, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children’s Hospital, and Valley Hospital & Medical Center — joined forces to merge competing business lines and form an organization to oversee them; the first of which was Northwest MedStar, a critical care transport service and St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, the regions largest freestanding medical rehabilitation facility. In the years that followed, it became clear that there were many more joint venture opportunities, and INHS now oversees several collaborative health care services, including health education, rural outreach and health information technology.