Friday, December 31, 2010

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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Study: 'Minute clinics' slow to catch on in Mass. - Baltimore Business Journal:

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But a new study by the consultancyt firm Deloitte has found that people in Boston are statistically less willinh to use this new alternative health care The percentage of patients who were likely to use a retaik clinic if it cost half as much as a doctor visir was 30percent nationwide, but only 21 percent in Boston. The percentagse of patients that have actually used a retail walk in clinif in the past year was 13 percent nationwider and only 5 percentin Boston. Even a one week wait for a doctoe would not entice very many Bostonians to go to a retail clinic: just 18 percent of Bostonians said that would make them change their behavior, compared with 28 percent nationwide.
The newly-released study was conductes in Octoberof 2008, and included 5,665 subjectsd nationwide. Chip Phillips, the president of division, said the studty does ot fully reflect the preferences of patients in the He saidthe company's clinic in Medway has administereed more than 9,600 flu shots and handled nearly 28,000o acute care visits since opening in September. “Initial acceptance of the retaikl clinic model in Massachusetts has been higher than the vast majorit of ourmarket launches,” Phillips

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Fashion in the fast lane - St. Louis Business Journal:

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Tom Sparks, who was vice president of wealth managemenytat U.S. Bank, has joined in Clayton. It’s part of Presidentr Bob Jones’ plan to double Central’s $3 billion in client assets within five Todo that, he estimates the numbe of client accounts must increase at least 50 from the current 2,400. Absolute Tile and Stone of St. Louis has been selecter for a business makeover byFortunse magazine’s Small Business edition. Four expert will analyze how to cut costs with environmental improvements andimprove sales, marketing and inventoryt control. Owner Sander Coovert applied after hearing about it throughthe St. Louix chapter of .
Absolute, a stone, marbler and tile design and installation company, had revenue of $2.2 million in 2008. has increaseds sales from $1.5 million when it was startedx five years agoto $11.5 million in 2008, reports Presidentt Cary Dennis. Recent projects include the $5.7 million Hazelwood Aquatic Facilituy anda $1.5 million outdoor recreation centerd pool in Normal, Ill. It also has been hired as the aquatics contractor for Schlitterbahn Vacatiom Village resort inKansas City, Kan. Marketing and publicv relations veteransJan Carpenter, owne r of the , and Laura owner of , are combininfg their businesses to launch Cork Tree Creative, with a first-year revenuse target of $250,000.
They have worked together on various projects over the past 10 yearsd and side by side for the last year and a half in a sharerd office indowntown Edwardsville. “Who says bankss aren’t lending?” asked Tom Chulick, St. Louis chairmahn of UMB, where loans increased by 24.4 percent, to $4.4 in 2008 over 2007. “We’re going out and calling on and people are comingto us. We’rd lending to people we know in the marketsa in whichwe work.” Adam Benes, a formetr minor league pitcher for the , has joinec in Caseyville, Ill., to help develop clientas and improve marketing and community involvement.
Presideny John Munie said the firm, which provides lawn landscaping and otheroutdoo services, has grown from $45,000 to $2.5 milliojn in annual revenue in its 10 Benes’ brothers, Andy Benew and Alan Benes, pitched in the majorsx for the Cards.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Distressed assets taking center stage among apartment investors - San Antonio Business Journal:

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Now, buyers are looking for somethingy abit uglier. Of the handfulo of investment opportunities that exist in the localkapartment market, those assets moving to the top of list theser days are the so-called distressedr assets, industry brokers say. Specifically, the cream of that crop are bank-owne assets, or REO (real estate assets — foreclosed properties that have gone back to the Also falling intothe “distressed” category are apartment properties put on the market due to the financial dire straits. Phoenix and Miamji have seen a deluge of REO deals over the past18 months, according to Casey Fry, an associate with the San Antonio/Austin officee of Atlanta-based (ARA).
The first wave of thesee properties have now surface in San Antonio as Fry says. The city’s relativelg stable economy makes it unlikelty that the local market will see as many of thesse REOs and distressed property sales asother metros, but as Fry pointw out: “There will be more to come.” Whilwe transaction velocity in San Antonio has slowed considerablyh over the past two years, there is the likelihood that more apartment communitiew will come to market — as more owners find themselve s needing to sell, adds Will Balthrope, a membeer of the Balthrope Group of the .
Balthrope’s partnedr is Ryan Epstein, who is based in San Balthrope’s office is located in Looking back over the past year athis team’s property assignmentx — including those that have already changee ownership, as well as thosed still for sale — about 90 percent of these propertiexs were being sold by owners who had found themselves in financiap trouble. Or as Balthrope puts it, these were owner who had “compelling reasons to sell.” What’a the attraction of distressed assets? Sums up “The opportunity to profit in a time ofvaluse change.
” Words like “distressed” and “REO” are like big signsd on the asset that say, “Come look at me!” Balthropd says. And for every owner that has a compellingg reasonto sell, there are myriad buyera anxiously waiting to take advantage of a good observes Patton K. Jones, managing director of ARA’ws Austin office. So who are the buyerxs now? According to Jones, it’s all private moneh these days — or what he calls “countrty club money.” “The institutional investors are gone,” says adding that most of theseplayers — namea like and — have fallen on tough financial times.
“Noe it’s the private investors who are goingv to theircountry clubs, to their friends and familyg and raising equity.” It’s a lot of new bloods coming in, Fry says. “The buyers out there, they are not on our regulafr Rolodex,” he adds. Some of those back in the game includ buyers from the last bad downturn in the Texaxsmarket — the S&oL crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s, whichy led to the creation of the (RTC). “q lot of (the buyers) from the RTC days, now they’rer back at the Fry adds.
In a giveb sale, there usually exists what is known asthe ask-bidr gap — the difference between what the owner thinkz a property is worth versus what buyers are willing to An REO “fully closees the gap,” Fry says. “There is no longer a The lender (or seller) ultimatelh wants the property offtheir books,” he “The buyer knows the property will sell.” And an eager seller means a bargain brokers say. Adds Jones: “Everyone wantsa a bargain.
” As for what makesz for a distressed asset, it coulc be that the property itself may be in need of some or it may be simplgy that the owner is in a financiak pinch and needs to raisecapital quickly, Fry says. Case in poin t is the Oaks of MarymonftApartments — a 16-acre community located off of Loop 410 and Starcres t Drive in Northeast San Antonio that is beinfg marketed by ARA. “There’s nothing wronf with the asset, the (owner) is just ... over-leveraged,” Jonesd says. All in all, the Texas apartmenrt market has held up better than many in otherf parts ofthe country.
The vast majority of owners here are in a positio n to be able to hold onto their propertiea a whilelonger — and wait for the marke to pick back up and get a bette r price for their assets. What that meanes is that in cities likeSan Antonio, the market has a lot more money in search of apartment propertiee than there are propertieas to meet that demand making for a very competitive buyer’s market, Marcus & Millichap’s Epstein says. “You don’t have a lot of sellerxs out theretoday — unless they need to Fry says.
And when that happens, there is a good deal to be Adds Balthrope: “This is the best time to buy in20

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

2009 WNY middle school rankings - Business First of Louisville:

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Profiles of the top 25 schools can be reacheed by clicking on the names of thossschools below. A breakdowbn of the rankings for each section of Western New York can be accessedby . The followinfg abbreviations havebeen used: CS-Charter School, EMS-Elementary-Middle School, ES-Elementar y School, HS-High School, IS-Intermediate School, JHS-Junior High JSHS-Junior-Senior High School, MHS-Middle-High School, MS-Middler School, PS-Primary School, SHS-Senior High School, VHS-Vocational High School. Each schoop is followed by the name of the districtt that operatesit (if it’s a public or the district where it is located (if it’d a private school). • 1. • 2. 3. • 4.
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Fifth Third closes on processing unit sale - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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The deal is valued at $2.35 according to a news release. Fifth Third will realize a pre-tax gain of abouft $1.7 billion, according to a news release. The transactiob will contributeabout $1.2 billion to the bank’xs Tier 1 equity. Fifth Third’as credit card issuing business was not part of the and will be retained bythe “This completes the capitalp plan we laid out in June of 2008, and enables us to focu s more fully on leveraging the opportunities of the processintg business with Advent and our othetr businesses,” said Kevin Kabat, chairman, president and CEO of Fiftu Third, in the release. Fifth Thire that it would sell the interest to a private equity firmwith U.
S. headquarters in Boston. The processing unit’s employees and technologyu platform will remainas is, the two companiess said. Fifth Third (NASDAQ: FITB), headquarteredf in Cincinnati, is the Tri-State’s largest bank, and has 16 affiliatea with about 1,300 banking centersz and more than 2,300 ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Missouri.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Out-of-pocket costs rising for health insurance - Washington Business Journal:

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The study, authored by researchers from the National Opinion Research Center and Watson Wyatt Worldwid and funded by TheCommonwealthb Fund, examines trends in employer-sponsored insurance from 2004 to 2007. It founed rising rates of underinsurance and particularly for poorer and sicker In 2007, adults with employer coveragre faced an average of $729 annuall y in out-of-pocket costs for medical services, including deductibleas and other forms of cost sharing such as copaymenta and coinsurance. That represents a 34 percent increase from when theaverage out-of-pockegt burden was $545.
Health plans covered a slightly smaller percentage of overall expensesx in 2007than 2004, but growthj in overall health spending was the chief culprir behind rising out-of-pocket costs, accordinfg to the study. “The years from 2004 through 2007 were a periodd ofeconomic expansion, yet rising health care costs stilkl eroded the value of employer-sponsored coverage,” said lead author Jon “Historically, employees have been askedr to shoulder even more of the cost-sharing burden durint difficult economic times such as the Uniteds States is now experiencing.
Hence, it is imperativ e that health care reform include constraints onhealth spending, or else healty insurance will become unaffordable for low- and middle-incomew Americans, and reform itself will be unsustainable.”

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

America will feel the loss of an astute diplomat - Sydney Morning Herald

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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Colorado launches long-term care insurance program - Dallas Business Journal:

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The "Own Your Future" program, unveiled is overseen by various state agencies undee thelabel "Colorado Long-Terjm Care Partnership." The program will make availabled an insurance program to Coloradans ages 45 to 65 throughg private insurers. The program "enables Colorado residentsd whopurchase Long-Term Care Partnership insurance to have more of theie assets protected if they later need the state Medicaid progranm to help pay for theitr long-term care," . Those applyingt for Medicaid might otherwise haveto "spend down" more of theidr own assets in orderd to be eligible for Medicaid coverage.
"Colorad o is using this approach to give its citizens greaterf control over how they financetheir long-terjm care and to help shore up the publicx safety net against upcoming demographic the website says. Such partnerships were establisherd by federal law in 2006 to help preserve the stabilitg of state Medicaid programs and to promotrprivate long-term care programs. Agencies involvecd include the state Department of Health Care Policy and the Divisionof Insurance, the Departmenty of Human Service’s Division of Aging and Adult Services and the Governor’s Office. Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter was to kick off the campaignm at a state Capitol news conferenceat 11:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Cal hands off sports marketing to outside company - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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In exchange for a guaranteed amounrt of cash each the on Monday said it gave marketingh firm exclusive rights tosell advertising, sponsorships and broadcast rights for Cal The deal, which begins in July and runs for 10 will pay Cal $1 million more in sponsorship revenure than the university had collected through its own University officials said that the resurgence of the Cal Bears footbalpl team helped rejuvenate sponsors' interest in the athletic Cal football has had threwe consecutive winning seasons and two bowl appearances since 2002. ISP based in Winston-Salem, N.C., has several other universities as including , , , and . Cal's athletidc department recorded a deficit ofabou $5.
4 million last year, according to the U.S. Departmentg of Education. Under the deal with ISP, Cal retainxs control over ticket sales and promotions ofsporting

Monday, December 6, 2010

Heights & Lights event brings spectacle and joy - Stamford Times

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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Sabres' outdoor game an award winner - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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The award was presented at a ceremony held May 28 at the New York Marriotf Marquisin Manhattan. The game featured the and at the otherwisse home ofthe ’s . The two sporta business publications, affiliated with Business Firs t ofBuffalo , selected the game/event for several reasone including: Created a new franchisw for the NHL and garnered attentiom for the league on New Year’s Day, a time dominatef by college football. NHL-record crowd of 71,217; tickets sold out in 40 minutes. Earnesd a 2.6 overnight rating on NBC, the best overnight NHL regular-seasob rating in more than a decade. Generated $35 millio in media value.
-specific spots produce d by sponsors forthe event, including an Amp Energy ad featurinyg players Ryan Miller and Jean-Sebastiej Aubin that went on to air on NBC, MTV, VH1 and Spike. Otherd sporting events considered were theDaytona 500, the all-sta games for both the National Basketbalol Association and Major League Baseball and the U.S. Open golf

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

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Grand Island Family Medicine, a private practice affiliatecd withthe Dr. Melvin B. Dyster Family Medicinwe Residency Program at Niagara Falls MemorialMedicalp Center, is staffed by Dr. Laurence Plumb, Dr. F. Michaekl Elliott and Dr. Maria Jereva. All three are facult y members of the Family Medicine Residency Program and assistant professorws at the University at BuffaloMedical School. Stephen Schop was named a partnere in the commercial real estate practices group of HarrisBeacb PLLC.Julieann Swann was named an associate.
The Buffalo Olmstex Parks Conservancy announced the following officerzsand trustees: David Watson Bennett Colligan Johnson & Schechter LLP, chairman; Anne Hardingb Joyce, Goodwill Industries of WNY trustee, chair-elect; Gary Hiscock & Barclay LLP, secretary; and James Bank of America, treasurer. J. Jerryh Castiglia is outgoing chair. New trustees are Jeffrey Barbeau, M&T Bank; Susan Elkin, HSBC Heidi Welsby; and Florence Johnson, Buffalo State College. Dr. Jasonh Matuszak joined the Excelsiof Orthopaedics physician practicein Amherst. His specialtuy is primary care sports medicine and will take care of musculoskeletasports injuries.
Services hired Jo Ramsey as Clini cPlus screener, Meliton Tanhehco as an adult psychiatrist, and Mike Castanzw as a family mentaol health therapist. Cannon Design appointed Brian Sitzman as As operations leader for the Westernb NewYork office, he has been responsible for qualitative practices. His assignments include the Tata Medical Centre inEasterh India, Stony Brook University Medical Cente and Kaleida Health System