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New hires
Dr Tracy McCoy joined the Mercy General Purgery Clinic active care surgery team at Cedar Rapids.
Mikki Strelow joined Strategic Financial Solutions as a business account manager at Cedar Rapids.
Shelby M. Smail And Sean T. Conrad joined Nidey Erdahl Meier and Araguás as a lawyer associated with Cedar Rapids.
Nicole Stamize, PA-C, joined Mercy Gastroenterology Clinic in Cedar Rapids as a doctor assistant.
Promotions
Allison C. Ackerman was promoted associated with the Nidey Erdahl Meier & Araguás Law Firm in Cedar Rapids.
Lisa McCool of Cedar Rapids was promoted vice-president, wealth advisor and manager of the trust at First Community Trust, based in Dubuque.
Nominations
Craig Adamson, The financial advisor and owner of TrueWealth Intendance in Marion will serve as president of 2025 in the Iowa section of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisers. The statement of state of the organization will take place in Cedar Rapids on August 27 to 28 and is open to members of NAIFA and non-Naïfa.
Chris Skogman, The president of Skogman Realty, based in Cedar Rapids, was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Unitypoint Health-St. Luke hospital.
Christine Scheetz, The owner and director of Senior Care Authority, was appointed executive director of Trail of Johnson County, an non -profit organization of Iowa City who helps the elderly to age.
Other news
President of the Mercy Foundation withdrawing: Lorrie Erusha, The president of the Mercy Medical Center Foundation will retire in August. She joined the Foundation in 2020 and helped many campaigns, including the creation of the Jewel & Jim Plumb Heart Center in Mercy; The development of the village of Hallmar and the Chris & Suzy Dewolf Family Innovation Center for Aging & Dementia; and the renovation of the downtown emergency service of Mercy hospital. A research committee was appointed to identify the successor of Erusha.
St. Luke uses AI to detect colon cancer: Unitypoint Health-St. Luke Hospital has announced that it now offers improved colonoscopies with the GI GI GENIUS MEDTRONIC GI, the first colonctic artificial intelligence of the FDA. The module uses AI to help doctors detect potentially precancerous polyps, which can lead to closet CLORECTALancientThe third cause of cancer deaths in men and the fourth in women, but when the figures are combined, it is the second most common cause of cancer deaths. The GI GENIUS module uses advanced visualization and AI software to highlight the polyps in real time. It has been shown to considerably decrease the rate of Miss of adenomas and polyps by 45.8%.
Collins Aerospace wins the navy contract: Collins Aerospace obtained a contract of $ 65 million to develop a coach of the weapon system for the French plane E-2D. The work will be carried out in Sterling, Virginia, Tampa, Florida, Lorient, France (10%), and should be completed in July 2028.
Collins updates Cessna Business Jet System: Collins Aerospace, an RTX company and the largest employer of Cedar Rapids, announced upgrades of its integrated pro Line 21 plane systems installed on the Jets of Cessna Citation Business. Upgrades – covering communication capacities, improved weather data and the connectivity of the cockpit – will be available in the second half of 2025, said RTX in a Press release.
Small company of the week: American senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa last week, appointed the World County Window of Black Hawk as a small business of the week.
In 1982, Vonna Yoder founded World’s Window as a non -profit organization to support craftsmen and educate the community on fair trade practices. The non-profit organization sold products in church gift fairs before establishing a permanent retail site in Cedar Falls.
In 2022, the longtime volunteer Betsy Roling bought the store, which offered hand -made products in more than 30 countries and 40 craft groups. She also presented COB Mercantile, offering local Iowa artisans a main street location to sell their products.
Ernst, president of the Senate Small Enterprises Committee, appoints an exceptional small company of the week in each of the counties of Iowa during this session of the congress.
Business notes for February 9, 2025
Allison Ackerman, Nidey Erdahl Meier and Araguás
Craig Adamson, reality of stewardship
Sean Conrad, Nidey Erdahl Meier and Araguás
Lorrie Erusha, Mercy Medical Center Foundation
Tracy McCoy, Mercy General Purgery Clinic
Christine Scheetz, Trail of Johnson County
Chris Skogman, Unitypoint Health-St. Luke
Shelby Smail, Nidey Erdahl Meier and Araguás
Nicole Staminer, Mercy Gastroenterology Clinic
Mikki Strelow, strategic financial solutions
