Accounting Fourteen staff accountants at BKD LLP earned the Certified Public Accountant designation. New CPAs are Rebecca Barrientos, Corey Brown, James Chrouser, Jessica Cullen, Ashley Curtis, Angela Fisher, Michael Holth, Kyrie Hopkins, Laura Knese, Jess Lehman, Colleen McDole, Matt Pryor, Laura Robb and Satyam Sthapit.
Banking Arvest Bank promoted Eric Lankford to commercial loan officer and Kristy Chastain to assistant vice president. Lankford joined Arvest in 2010 and holds a business administration degree from Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tenn. Chastain started at Arvest in 2009 and holds a mathematics degree from Missouri State University.
Education The MSU Board of Governors elected new officers for 2013: Orvin Kimbrough, of St. Louis, chairman; Beverly Miller, of Lebanon, vice chairwoman; Steve Foucart, MSU interim chief financial officer, treasurer; and John McAlear, MSU staff emeritus, secretary. The one-year terms begin Jan. 1.
MSU’s Yungchen Cheng received the Mathematical Association of America’s Certificate of Meritorious Service for the organization’s Missouri section. Nominees are chosen every five years from 29 MAA sections.
MSU biology professor John Havel received a $8,502 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to continue his two-year project, “Tolerance of Air Exposure and its Impact on Dispersal of Aquatic Invasive Species.” Fieldwork takes place at the University of Wisconsin Trout Lake Research Station and aims to determine the sensitivity of invasive aquatic plants and snails to air exposure.
MSU Center for Archaeological Research Director Neal Lopinot, assistant research professor Jack Ray and project supervisor Dustin Thompson received a $12,816 grant from Greene County through Olsson Associates for their research proposal, which aims to identify and evaluate the significance of archaeological sites and architectural properties within a proposed highway corridor, called the James River arterial, south of Springfield.
Government Seth Wollard, the city of Republic’s code compliance official, was elected to the board of directors of the Missouri Association of Code Administrators.
Missouri Public Utility Alliance presented its Dan A. Wakins/Gary L. Whorton Personal Service Award to City Utilities Director of Public Policy and Government Relations Kyle McClure. During the last 13 years, McClure has served on the Home Builders Association of Greater Springfield’s governmental affairs committee, the Urban Districts Alliance board and as chairman of Jordan Valley Community Health Center. He is currently chairman of Missouri Association of Municipal Utilities.
Health Care CoxHealth received the Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award from the American Heart and Stroke Associations. The award is given to recognize commitment to quality care for stroke patients. To receive Gold Plus status, an organization must have 85 percent adherence to all achievement measures and 75 percent adherence to select quality measures for 24 consecutive months. Health care information technology data analysis company HIMSS Analytics also recognized CoxHealth for achieving Level 6 of their Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. The eight-stage model assesses electronic medical record adoption level for more 5,000 hospitals. EMRAM evaluates the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems.
Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer Linda Knodel of Mercy’s Springfield region was named president-elect of American Organization of Nurse Executives for 2013. Knodel has more than 40 years of nursing experience and was voted in by 8,500 AONE members.
Don Ogden was named director of marketing for Premier Home Health Care. Ogden has a Master’s in Business Administration from Missouri State University and has eight years of executive management experience in the hospitality, manufacturing, marketing, sales, finance and construction sectors.
For the ninth consecutive year, Mercy Hospital Springfield has earned a Consumer Choice Award from the National Research Corp. NRC collected data from more than 250,000 consumer households in the U.S., ranking the most-preferred hospitals in more than 300 U.S. markets on best overall quality, best image/reputation, best doctors and best nurses. Winners are selected from a nationwide consumer health care profile, the National Research Corp. Healthcare Market Guide.
The Down Syndrome Group of the Ozarks named Susan VanDoren its new director. VanDoren brings a background in nonprofit administration, along with 17 years of corporate sales, marketing and communications experience. She holds a master’s from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism and a bachelor’s from Vanderbilt University in special education and art history.
MSU’s Taylor Health and Wellness Center was recently accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.
Status as an accredited organization means Taylor Health has met nationally recognized standards for the provision of quality health care set by AAAHC. Ambulatory health care organizations seeking accreditation undergo an extensive self-assessment and on-site survey by AAAHC expert surveyors – physicians, nurses and administrators who are actively involved in ambulatory health care.[[In-content Ad]]
The first southwest Missouri location of EarthWise Pet, a national chain of pet supply stores, opened; Grey Oak Investments LLC relocated; and Hot Bowl by Everyday Thai LLC got its start.
