Industries

The camouflage on the cost and quality of health care in America is blessedly being stripped away by entrepreneurial initiatives.

Mary Haynor, president and chief executive officer of Brown Deer-based Horizon Home Care & Hospice, has been elected secretary of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) for 2013 and 2014.

Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP announced that Wayne Morgan has accepted the newly created position of office managing partner of the company’s Milwaukee office.

Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Inc. today announced it will extend its hiring binge into 2013 with plans to add 5,500 financial professionals this year.

The Wisconsin Bankers Association will host its 2013 Economic Forecast Luncheon on Thursday, January 10, from noon to 2 p.m. at Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison.

The camouflage on the cost and quality of heath care in America is blessedly being stripped away by entrepreneurial initiatives. Payers can finally get a glimpse at what they are buying and for how much.

Menomonee Falls-based Bradley Corp. announced it has purchased the assets of Keltech Inc. of Delton, Mich., and will operate the company as a wholly-owned subsidiary.

CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA) has acquired Jenkins & Vojtisek SC, a certified public accounting firm based in Racine.

Mason Wells, a Milwaukee-based middle-market buyout firm, announced that effective immediately, Thomas Smith will assume the role of executive managing director, succeeding John Byrnes, who has held the position since the inception of the company in 1998.

U.S. employers added 155,000 jobs in December, as the national unemployment rate remained at 7.8 percent, the Labor Department announced.