By Journal Times staff | Posted: Monday, May 11, 2009 12:00 am
RACINE - Lincoln Lutheran of Racine's board of directors has voted to add hospice care and hired a director for that program.
Hospice of Lincoln Lutheran will provide a full range of end-of-life services to Lincoln Lutheran residents.
Later it will expand those to other Lincoln Lutheran residential facilities, community programs and the public.
Hospice involves a team approach to expert medical care, pain management and emotional and spiritual care.
Carol Miller has been appointed director of the new program. Miller was most recently an executive with Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries in central Pennsylvania.
According to Lincoln Lutheran, Miller was involved in starting Hospice of Central Pennsylvania, a grass-roots hospice program and now one of the largest programs in that state.
The nonprofit Lincoln Lutheran will seek Medicare certification and expects to begin services in 2010.
For more information call (262) 898-2731 or e-mail Miller at cmiller@llor.org.
Piggly Wiggly Midwest announced Friday the company has reached agreement with employees at its 11 corporately owned Piggly Wiggly stores. The employees of those stores are members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
In February, the company also agreed to a five-year contract extension with the Teamsters union which covers the warehouse workers and the truck drivers at the Sheboygan distribution center.
The company announced it will expand the Sheboygan warehouse by adding a new, 40,000-square-foot building. The total project, including other changes there, will cost $2 million.
"We wanted to keep the jobs in Sheboygan," Paul Butera, company owner, stated in a news release. He added, "Our plans are to continue to grow our business, and we need more room to do it".
MOUNT PLEASANT - The local American Society for Quality's Racine, Kenosha, and Walworth chapter on Thursday will host Bob Kuenzi, application engineering manager for Maysteel LLC. He will speak on "Design for Manufacturability" and how one can adapt the concept to operations to reduce production costs and increase sales.
There is no charge for the meeting, at 6 p.m. at the Charcoal Grill, 8300 Washington Ave. Make reservations to Jay Warner at quality@a2q.com.