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Allegations against Washington gender-affirming surgeon stir fears of backlash for trans patients

Former employees and patients describe ethical lapses, shoddy records and worse at cosmetic surgery clinic — raising concerns about oversight in the booming industry

By Daniel Walters

/ 5 Dec 2025

After pushback, WSU suspends transphobic continuing education courses

A ‘gut-wrenching’ waiting game: measles reaches Spokane

A Spokane family feared the worst when their newborn was exposed to measles at a doctor appointment. SRHD identified 4 exposures and 1 positive case stemming from an infected Idaho resident seeking care at Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital.

By Clarinne Kirk

/ 16 Sep 2025

Allegations against Washington gender-affirming surgeon stir fears of backlash for trans patients

Union says Providence fired 15 nurses in retaliation for news coverage of girl’s suicide at Spokane hospital

Providence has accused nurses and other staff of violating patient privacy laws.

By Whitney Bryen, InvestigateWest and Kaylee Tornay, InvestigateWest

/ 1 Aug 2025

Local workers for city projects: Proposed ordinance would support local labor

‘When you look at an addict, that’s someone’s child’

Losing a family member to fentanyl

By Sophia Mattice-Aldous

/ 4 Jun 2025

Spokane hospital where 12-year-old died endangered other suicidal patients, investigators find

State health records show repeated safety violations at Providence Sacred Heart hospital

By Whitney Bryen, InvestigateWest and Kaylee Tornay, InvestigateWest

/ 21 May 2025

The local Planned Parenthood spent $15,570 on union-busting last year

In the last 49 days of 2024, Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho spent $317 a day on a union-busting contract.

By Erin Sellers

/ 14 May 2025

Failing Sarah:

How a 12-year-old girl ended her own life as her family fought for months to save it

By Amanda Sullender, The Spokesman-Review

/ 10 May 2025

A 12-year-old killed herself at a Spokane hospital that recently closed its youth psychiatric unit

Workers say girl’s death is an example of what they feared from Providence closing the unit.

By Kaylee Tornay, InvestigateWest and Whitney Bryen, InvestigateWest

/ 23 Apr 2025

‘Any moment could be the last.’ Red states could preview gender-affirming care under Trump

An Idaho law banning state insurance from covering gender-affirming care could foreshadow a national ban on Medicaid spending for transgender care.

By Erin Sellers

/ 26 Feb 2025

‘Scissors, scissors’: Washington patients could soon have informed consent for IUD insertions

IUD insertions can be painful and often, patients aren’t notified of pain management options. House Bill 1077 in the WA legislature could change that.

By Erin Sellers

/ 18 Feb 2025

‘The mission doesn’t pay the bills.’

Employees at the local Planned Parenthood are considering unionization over what they characterize as low pay and bad working conditions. The CEO is paying a union-busting firm the equivalent of 17 medical assistants’ hourly wages to persuade them not to.

By Erin Sellers

/ 19 Dec 2024

SRHD board defers treatment services decision again

The drawn-out process on studying the possibility of privatizing opioid treatment services is starting to have real consequences.

By Erin Sellers

/ 1 Nov 2024