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APAC Customer Services Announces a Promotion and a New Employee
APAC Customer Services is pleased to announce the promotion of Sheena Wiemerslage to Team Leader in the Publications Division. Sheena joined the APAC team in September of 2005 and brings several years of Supervisory and Training experience from the Restaurant and Service Industries.
APAC also welcomes Abby Herricks as its new Senior Recruiter. Abby graduated from UWL in May of 2005 with a degree in Human Resource Management. In addition, Abby has strong field experience in Marketing and Communications.
"Sheena and Abby are great additions to our La Crosse Management Team," said Todd Brudos, Human Resource Manager. "Their commitment to APAC's values and our employees will play a big role in driving our strategic initiatives."
Allure Salon Welcomes New Massage Therapist
Jenna specializes in head & neck therapy for migraine relief. She also offers many other forms of therapeutic massage including Reiki, Deep Tissue, Swedish, Sports, Reflexology and Accupressure. Jenna is now offering a New Client Special: 1-hour massage $40 and 2 1-hour massages $75. Evening & Saturday appointments available. Walk-ins Welcome.
Dr. Randall Moseng Receives Fellowship Award
The Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) is pleased to announce that Dr. Randall Moseng of Onalaska has received the prestigious Fellowship Award. Dr. Moseng received this award during the Convocation Ceremony held at the AGD's annual meeting in Denver, Colorado on August 5, 2006
The Fellowship Award is granted to dentists dedicated to providing the highest quality of dental care by remaining current in their profession. Dr. Moseng completed 500 hours of continuing dental education, passed a comprehensive, rigorous written exam and fulfilled three years of continuing membership with the AGD. As a recipient of this award, Dr. Moseng has joined an elite group of general dentists. The Fellowship Award symbolizes excellence in the dental profession and a lifelong commitment to providing exceptional patient care. The AGD is a non- profit organization of more than 35,000 general dentists dedicated to staying up to date in the profession through continuing education. This commitment to lifelong learning keeps dentists informed about the latest research, technologies and products in dentistry.
Dr. Moseng graduated from the University Of Minnesota School Of Dentistry in 1997. He also attended a one year residency in general dentistry in 1998 at the U of M. He is accepting new patients at River Town Dental in La Crosse and Holmen.
Dr. Moseng is married to Dr. Julie Moseng and has two children.
Kruse elected VP of WAHI
Professional Home Inspection Company is pleased to announce that Tom Kruse, CRI has been elected Vice President of the Chippewa Valley Chapter of the Wisconsin Association of Home Inspectors. The Chippewa Valley Chapter is a newly established chapter for WAHI. "The price of a home inspection is a tiny fraction of the cost of the home or even the cost of many repairs. It is also a valuable learning opportunity for all homebuyers, whether they are buying their first home or are experienced home owners. The public is learning the value of a thorough and technically knowledgeable home inspection so the demand for home inspections has really increased. Unfortunately, as with any profession, not all providers have the very best standards in their technical knowledge, their business practices or their concern for their customers." states Tom. "We have established the new Chippewa Valley Chapter in order to promote the professional, ethical and technical standards of our industry."
The group meets every second Wednesday of the month at 6pm in Eau Claire. For more information, go to www.wahigroup.com/wahi__chippewa_valley or email Tom through his website at www.PHI.BZ.
Dr. ALAN FLEISCHMANN ACCEPTS ROLE OF VICE PRESIDENT oF MEDICAL AFFAIRS WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR SERVICE EXCELLENCE, EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 1
J. Alan Fleischmann, MD, has accepted an additional leadership role within Franciscan Skemp Healthcare as the Vice President of Medical Affairs with responsibility for Service excellence. "As an organization, our commitment to our patients has always come first, and this key role will bring clarity and form to this integral function," said Robert E. Nesse MD, President and CEO of Franciscan Skemp.
Dr. Fleischmann recently led a strategic planning team that designed a new Service Excellence Program for Franciscan Skemp. This program will create an infrastructure and a process that will further enhance service to our patients in every thing we do.
Dr. Fleischmann has a long history with Franciscan Skemp and his leadership involvement in many areas within the organization, particularly service excellence initiatives, makes him the ideal person for this new opportunity. He has an excellent reputation for personal integrity, and highly developed communication skills.
The new responsibilities are exciting and integral to the future success of the organization, but will require an additional tie commitment that will not allow Dr. Fleischmann to maintain his clinical practice at the Caledonia clinic. Dr. Fleischmann and his partners at Caledonia clinic - Ryan Brenza, DO, John Cochran, MD, and Deb Miller, CNM, FNP-will ensure a smooth transition for his current patients.
He will continue his role in providing leadership within Regional Practice Development, Referral Services & Outreach and Complementary or Integrative Medicine. He also has a 10% appointment to provide leadership within the Mayo Health System. He currently leads the Provider - Patient Communication Workshops that 864 providers will attend within the next few years. He is the chair of the Mayo Clinic/Mayo Health System Service Excellence Collaborate, and is the Process Champion of the Mayo Health System Baldrige Initiative. He also serves on the Mayo Health System Medical Director's and Performance Excellence Comities.
Dr. Fleischmann's accomplishments are significant and vital to the future success of Franciscan Skemp.
He brings 30 years of experience n clinical practice and 11 years in health care administration.
He graduated from medical school from the University College Cork of the National Administration.
He graduated from medical school from the University College Cork of the National University of Ireland, Cork Ireland, worked at Guys Hospital in London and then did his Family Medicine Residency at University College Hospital in London, England.
He is a Member of both the Royal College of Physicians (Internal Medicine) and of the Royal College of General Practitioners (Family Medicine). He was a partner in a Family Medicine practice in North London before joining the former Franciscan Health System in 1987 and has practiced at the Caledonia clinic for 19 years. He has provided leadership in regional practice, complementary medicine, geriatrics, hospice, and many quality and service initiatives, including the recent highly successful receptionist project at the Holmen Clinic. He was made a Senior Bush Medical Fellow in 2003 and was appointed a MacMillan Scholar in 2005. He is board certified in Family Medicine in the UK and in Administrative Medicine in the US, and holds a master's degree in Medical Management from Carnegie Mellon. He was appointed to the Policy Board of the Bush Medical Fellows Program.
Dr. Fleischmann, his wife Nessa, and their daughter Diana and son James, are U.S. citizens. They have made heir home in Caledonia, MN for many years and recently moved to La Crosse.
Ryan Olson joins o'Flaherty Heim Egan, LTD.
Ryan Olson graduated University of Wisconsin - La Crosse with honors in 2003 and University of Wisconsin School of Law, Cum Laude, in 2006.
While at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, Mr. Olson researched the impact of tax deductions on charitable giving, refereed intramural sports, and volunteered his time with several student organizations. At the University of Wisconsin Law School, Mr. Olson interned at the Dane County circuit Court for the Honorable Daniel R. Moeser and collected several awards including the Dean's Academic Achievement Award and the American Bar Association Award for Academic Achievement in Intellectual Property.
His primary focuses of practice are Corporate, Business, employment and Intellectual Property law. To obtain his services, he can now be reached at O'Flaherty Heim Egan, Ltd in La Crosse, WI.
Gundersen Lutheran Physical Therapist earns prestigious certification
The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) has certified Marquerite Costigan, PT, Gundersen Lutheran In-patient Therapy, as a neurologic clinical specialist. The emphasis for this certification is on patients with strokes, brain injury, spinal cord injury, vestibular disorders, cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders.
Costigan is only one of 458 physical therapists in the United States to achieve the neurologic clinical specialist certification.
Physician assistant joins Gundersen Lutheran
Sara Winters, PA-C, has joined Gundersen Lutheran as a physician assistant and is working in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Winters did her internal medicine rotation with the physician assistant internist group at Gundersen Lutheran. She received her bachelors degree in 2002 in Wartburg college in Waverly, Iowa, and her masters degree as a physician assistant at Des Moines University in Iowa in 2005.
Franciscan Skemp Healthcare Welcomes Barbara Saathoff, RN, J.D.
Barbara Saathoff, RN, JD, recently joined Franciscan Skemp Healthcare as legal counsel.
Barbara earned her law degree from Northwestern University School of Law at Lewis and Clark College in Chicago, IL. She is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, American Bar Association and the American Health Lawyers Association. Barb is also a registered nurse with a clinical background in maternal child care.
Prior to joining Franciscan Skemp Barbara had her own health law practice in Neenah, Wisconsin and was of counsel to McCarty Law LLP. In her practice, she advised physician groups, allied health providers, hospitals and health insurers on a wide range of health law matters. Before starting her own practice, Barbara was in-house legal counsel to a large integrated healthcare system in the Fox Valley area.
For Franciscan Skemp, Barbara will represent its physicians, administrators and allied health staff with respect to legal matters affecting the organization and its affiliates. She will participate as a member of the Mayo Legal Department.
Andrew Bosshard joins Bosshard Parke Ltd
The law firm of Bosshard Parke Ltd. is pleased to announce that Andrew R. Bosshard has joined the firm as a business and tax attorney effective August 1, 2006. Mr. Bosshard marks the fourth generation Bosshard family member to serve the firm and the La Crosse legal community.
Bosshard Parke traces its origins to Otto Bosshard, who practiced law in La Crosse beginning in 1917. Otto's nephew, John Bosshard, joined the law practice in 1947. John advised and represented countless clients on matters relating to their farms and businesses, tax planning and preparation, estate and trust planning, creditor and debtor rights, and personal injury. John was a prominent figure in the community until his death in 1990. John's daughter, Sabina Bosshard, joined the firm in 1977 and developed a large and successful family law practice to add to the firm's other major practice areas. Since John's death, Sabina has sustained the Bosshard reputation for excellence. In January of 2005, George Parke, Joseph J. Connell and Darla A. Krzoska merged with the firm, which then became known as Bosshard Parke, Ltd.
Andrew (John's grandson and Sabina's nephew) brings to the firm six years of experience in business and tax law, having been associated with Cades Schutte LLP in Honolulu, one of Hawaii's oldest, largest and most respected law firms. Andrew has a broad-based commercial transactional practice including the formation, financing, merger and reorganization of corporations, joint ventures, partnerships, limited liability companies, and charitable organizations, as well as tax planning for businesses, individuals, and trusts. Andrew has expertise in tax planning for tax deferred exchanges and involuntary conversions. He also is experienced in general corporate and business law, banking law, and real estate law. While in Hawaii, he served leadership roles with the Hawaii State Bar Association, most recently as Vice Chair of the Tax Section. Andrew will complement Bosshard Parke's talented team of business attorneys.
Andrew graduated with high honors from La Crosse Central High School, the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Northwestern University School of Law. Andrew looks forward to returning to his Coulee Region roots with his wife Dayna.
Bosshard Parke Ltd. consists of 11 lawyers and 18 assistants. It continues to be a full service general practice law firm, representing individuals, entrepreneurs, farmers, businesses, families, and public institutions, as well as the institutions that serve them. Bosshard Parke is located at 505 King Street, Suite 334, La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 (608) 782-1469.
CenturyTel wins bid to provide TV services to university of Wisconsin - La Crosse
CenturyTel, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) recently won the contract to provide television service to the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse (UW-L) including its administration buildings and eleven residence halls.
Students attending UW-L and living in residence halls will come back to school to find a new provider of television services from a familiar company. CenturyTel is the local calling and voice processing services provider for the university. The three-year television contract further enhances the communications services CenturyTel provides the university. Television programming offered through CenturyTel will be similar to the service previously offered by the past provider.
"This year students living on campus will come back to school and watch CenturyTel's service in their residence halls and common areas throughout campus," said Dan Braund, area operations manager. "With over 1,900 dorm rooms and other locations on campus wired for phone and TV, having one provider will simplify communications services for university."
CenturyTel rolled out its residential television offering to the La Crosse market in October of 2005 and is continuing to expand its offering to residential and business customers throughout the La Crosse, Onalaska, West Salem and Holmen area.
CenturyTel (NYSE:CTL) is a leading provider of communications, high-speed Internet and entertainment services in small-to mid-sized cities through our broadband and fiver transport networks. Included in the S&P 500 Index, CenturyTel delivers advanced communications with a personal touch to customers in 25 states. Visit us at www.centurytel.com.
La Crosse Area Builders Association wins two association excellence awards
The La Crosse Area Builders Association recently received two Award of excellence in the following categories from the Executive Officers Council (EOC) of the National Association of Home Builders: Best Service Delivered to Members and Best Workforce Development Plan Implemented. Awards were presented during the annual national Association of Home Builders' 2006 EOC Seminar held at the Mohegan Sun Resort in Uncasville, Connecticut.
The award for Best Service Delivered to Members is for an alternative dispute resolution program developed with the La Crosse Bar Association. The Best Workforce Development Plan Implemented is of the Building Careers Day held with seven area high schools to bring students on job sites, offer a job fair and speeches on opportunities in the building industry.
The Executive council's membership consists of the staff executives who manage the more than 800 state and local home builders associations and comprise the National Association of Home Builders.
"I am very proud of the accomplishments of my association and the hard work of our staff," said LABA Executive Officer Vicki Markussen. "To receive two Association Excellence Awards and to be recognized by one's peers is truly the ultimate compliment."
The winning entries will be made available to other associations across the country to provide better service to members and their communities.
The La Crosse Area Builders Association has received ten Association Excellence Awards since it began entering the contest in 1999.
The La Crosse Area Builders Association is a non-profit, business organization that unites and represents the people in the building industry in La Crosse, Monroe, Jackson, Trempealeau and Vernon Counties. We provide our members with education, interaction and opportunities that build communities we are proud to live and work in.
Howes Attends buying & seminar conference in Reno, NV
Bill, Jan, and Dan Howes of Howes Diamond Jewelers recently attended a series of educational seminars, workshops, and courses at the Independent Jewelers Organization's (IJO) Fall Buying Seminar Conference held in Reno, NV. The Howes Family also had the opportunity to preview the latest jewelry styles from more than 150 top jewelry manufactureres and designers. Many of these styles are exclusive to Master IJO Jeweler members and are not available to any other stores in this area.
IJO (www.ijo.com) is an international buying group and educational organization of independent retail jewelers with almost 850 members in the United States and Canada. IJO's buying power enables its members to offer their clients the finest in high-quality jewelry and loose diamonds at tremendous savings, while still maintaining the reliability and integrity of an independent retail jeweler.
Howes Diamond Jewelers (www.HowesDiamondJewelers.com) is this area's exclusive Master IJO Jeweler member, located in downtown La Crosse and downtown Red Wing.
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