Archive for October 2005
Development initiative targets rural Iowa
In 1999, after 26 years in the manufacturing sector, Rich Lukes left his job and bought the Spillville Locker in northeast Iowa. He’s learned to make award-winning sausage and maintain a happy workforce. Sales and …
Read MoreNurses have $8 million incentive to practice in Iowa
Nursing student Kailey Scott is looking forward to graduating from Grand View College now that she knows part of her college loans will be paid off for her.
Scott is one of 233 people Iowa …
Invest Smart targets securities fraud against seniors
They each sounded too good to be true – and for some, too good to pass up.
A bogus company set up to receive and pool money to invest in “secret, bank-only” investment programs for …
Iowa Digestive Disease Center to build in Clive
They say they don’t know much about business. But for the seven doctors of the Iowa Digestive Disease Center, buying a parcel of land along the University Avenue “medical mile” that straddles Clive and West …
Read MoreFire Safety House not just blowing smoke
An 8-year-old opens her eyes to find her bedroom filled with smoke. Rolling off the bed and crawling across the floor, she reaches the door, which she tests with the back of her hand. It’s …
Read MoreMercy’s ‘smart pump’ system provides added medication safeguards
To err is human, and that’s why the staff at Mercy Medical Center is finding the hospital’s new “smart pump” intravenous system to be divine.
The new system, which Mercy began using on Aug. 15, …
Hospitals seek recognition as nursing magnets
Despite hiring about 100 nurses from its Mercy College of Health Sciences recently, Mercy Medical Center still has about 120 nursing vacancies at its Greater Des Moines facilities.
The nationwide nursing shortage, which is expected …
Surgery Center to build in East Village
Each month, between 300 and 350 people check in for minor surgical procedures at the Surgery Center of Des Moines’ office on the East Side. Within a few hours, they’re walking back out the door …
Read MoreSports legends are finding a friend in Pella
Pella – Somehow, Curtis Baugh always manages to pull off the unexpected. He was the youngest of 15 children in his Ottumwa family, but managed to get a college education at Central College in Pella. …
Read MoreStyle with flair
It’s the time of year that the fashion conscious embrace and the fashion clueless fear. With the change in seasons comes the inevitable change in wardrobe – out with the open-toe shoes and white pants …
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