Archive for April 2003

There is a small and highly mobile cadre at Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa that tracks down costs and inefficiencies and removes them, passing the savings on to customers.

Known internally as …

The fate of a proposed $78 million, 83-bed hospital in West Des Moines, which would be the first new hospital in Greater Des Moines in decades, now rests with antitrust officials in Washington, D.C.  

Central …

Riverwalk sponsor says casino on the Des Moines River would force another look at $10 million pledge

Legislative approval of an increase in the number of riverboat casinos in Iowa appears unlikely this session, temporarily …

Insurer campaigns to make 15-passenger vans safer

Jan Beckstrom, the chief operating officer at GuideOne Insurance, traveled to Washington, D.C., to lend support to proposed legislation that would step up scrutiny on 15-passenger vans.

GuideOne …

FOCUS: HEALTHCARE

Six months after Primary Health Care severed its ties with Broadlawns Medical Center, the executive director of the provider of health-care services for poor and underinsured Iowans is on a mission.

Dr. Bery …

The word “veracity” means devotion to the truth. Though some consumers might shudder when they learn that the collection agency visiting them uses “veracity” in its name, the word has special meaning for the six …

It took some arm-twisting, but Alma Mesecher finally capitulated and accepted a limousine ride to Bankers Trust Co. the morning of April 7. She’d take the bus, she argued, just as she has almost every …

Anniversaries are a time for triple reflection: to observe where you’ve been. both in hard copy and in memory; to think about where you’d like to be and what you’d like to achieve; and to …

The thrill of the grass, the crack of a bat, the popping of a mitt and the smell of hot dogs wafting through the park – another summer of dreams. For many, the start of …

Brandon Klinge says before he joined Pella Windows and Doors’ Des Moines office as a sales assistant, he had a “checkered past.” What he really had was a varied work history, as he moved from …