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Addy Hatch: Don't revive lifetime cap on health insurance

Addy Hatch: Don't revive lifetime cap on health insurance

Spokesman-Review — Lifetime caps on health insurance went away under the Affordable Care Act. Hundreds of thousands of people exhaled in relief, and I was one of them. About 55 percent of people with employer-sponsored health insurance used to face lifetime caps on coverage, usually $1 million to $2 million.
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'Fake news' morphing from bogus stories to slam on mainstream media

'Fake news' morphing from bogus stories to slam on mainstream media

Spokesman-Review — The concept of "fake news" has evolved quickly. First it was false or misleading stories spread on social media in the run-up to the presidential election. There was a lot of talk about fake news swaying the election results, and while bogus news stories were shared widely, researchers at Stanford University and New York University concluded in January they didn't have outsize influence on the election results.
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'My husband would have laughed' about Seahawks dig in obituary

'My husband would have laughed' about Seahawks dig in obituary

Spokesman-Review — Michael Vedvik was a longtime Seahawks fan. So his wife thinks he'd laugh about the last line in his obituary today: "We blame the Seahawks lousy play call for Mike's untimely death." That's not 100 percent true, says Stephanie Vedvik.
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Sacred Heart's expanded cardiac unit will serve patients from wider area

Sacred Heart's expanded cardiac unit will serve patients from wider area

Spokesman-Review — On a day devoted to paper hearts, the warm, beating kind were focus of a dedication and blessing at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center's expanded and remodeled cardiac intensive care unit. Providence recently finished a two-year, $19.2 million project that added 13 patient beds, bringing the total to 34.
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CV grad president of apparel, footwear giant

CV grad president of apparel, footwear giant

Spokesman-Review — Winning the day in retail means creating an experience the customer wants to be part of, Steve Rendle says. The Spokane Valley native learned that as an outdoorsy teenager in the late 1970s, hanging out in the Sports Creel store on East Sprague Avenue.
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Downtown Spokane buildings dressed up with light shows

Downtown Spokane buildings dressed up with light shows

Spokesman-Review — Downtown Spokane is more colorful this Christmas, with the tall smokestacks at Steam Plant Square glowing green and red and new exterior lights on the Macy's and Nordstrom stores. They echo the Lincoln Building, which has sported holiday and special event lighting on the top floor since 2007.
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5 things to know about a DNP degree | College of Nursing | Washington State University

5 things to know about a DNP degree | College of Nursing | Washington State University

wsu.edu — It's one of two routes to becoming a nurse practitioner, one of the highest-paid and most in-demand nursing specialties; the other route is to get a Master of Nursing degree. But the American Association of Colleges of Nursing recommends the DNP degree for nurses who want to work as nurse practitioners.
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Camp Stix offers a 'powerful' lesson for nursing students | College of Nursing | Washington State...

Camp Stix offers a 'powerful' lesson for nursing students | College of Nursing | Washington State...

wsu.edu — The kids at Camp Stix make arts and crafts, swim, and play AWOL, a camp-wide game of hide-and-seek. It's like any other summer camp, and that's the point. Most of the nearly 200 campers have Type 1 diabetes.
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Actors play a role in health education as 'standardized patients' | College of Nursing | Washingt...

Actors play a role in health education as 'standardized patients' | College of Nursing | Washingt...

wsu.edu — As acting jobs go, this one's not typical. Rather than being handed the role of "ingenue" or "nosy neighbor," people who are hired by the WSU College of Nursing might be asked to play "chest pain" or "depression," or "degenerative joint disease."
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Community fitness program helped overweight teens in Coeur d'Alene | College of Nursing | Washing...

Community fitness program helped overweight teens in Coeur d'Alene | College of Nursing | Washing...

wsu.edu — By Addy Hatch, College of Nursing Five years ago, researchers in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, wanted to test whether overweight teenagers would be receptive to a community-based fitness program that included exercise, goal-setting, and nutrition coaching.
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Midcareer switch to nursing lets Lorie Stucke be 'part of someone's story' | College of Nursing |...

Midcareer switch to nursing lets Lorie Stucke be 'part of someone's story' | College of Nursing |...

wsu.edu — Nursing wasn't Lorie Stucke's first love. That was journalism, the career where she'd spent more than a decade. But turmoil in that industry prompted her to do some soul-searching. What she liked about journalism was the chance to build trust with someone, to tell their story and by that action become part of their story in a small way.
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