People on the Move 3/19/18

Voices for Children/CASA of Southeast Missouri announced the retirement of Linda Clark Nash as executive director effective the end of March. Nash has been with the agency for eight and a half years.

Prior to working for CASA, she wrote and administered Teaching American History grants for the Jackson School District and taught history at Jackson High School for a combined 35 years.

Under Nash's direction, Voices/CASA has added a second full-time volunteer coordinator and a part-time receptionist. The organization also has benefited from the Saint Francis Medical Center Power of Sharing program; and received various grants, including the VOCA (Victims of Crime Act) grant, which pays much of the salary of direct-service providers, the Green Foundation Grant, Tri-State Advertising and Marketing's Advertising for A Cause grant and others.

Voices for Children/CASA, with an office in Cape Girardeau, is a 25-plus-year-old agency that recruits, screens, trains and provides volunteer support for community volunteers who serve as juvenile-justice advocates for child victims of abuse, neglect and family dysfunction in the 32nd Judicial Circuit. Counties served are Bollinger, Cape Girardeau and Perry.

Dr. Matthew Frank, Dr. Laura Kasher and Dr. Sherry Ritter will join 15 other hospitalists to provide care to hospitalized patients at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, according to a recent news release.

Frank comes to Saint Francis from Willis Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. He earned his medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine and completed his residency at Louisiana State University hospital in Shreveport.

Kasher, who previously worked as a hospitalist at the University of Colorado Health Medical Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado, earned her medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical center in Omaha. She completed her residency at the University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center.

Ritter comes to Saint Francis from Iron County Medical Center in Pilot Knob, Missouri. She earned her medical degree from the University of Missouri and completed her residency at the Harry S. Truman Memorial VA Hospital in Columbia, Missouri.

-- From staff reports