PERSONNEL

Barbara Rauh-Powell, director of Southeast Missouri Hospital's Regional Home Health Services, will be the guest speaker at the Society for Ambulatory Care Professionals' annual meeting this year.

The organization, a part of the American Hospital Association, will hold its annual convention in Seattle, Wash., in June. Theme of the meeting is "Hospital Home Care: Innovative Leadership for a Time of Change."

Rauh-Powell will discuss innovative ways to provide home health services through the grant process. She has been a part of the Southeast Missouri Hospital staff since 1974.

Susan Teets, perioperative educator since 1991 at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, is among more than 2,000 surgical nurses who recently passed the certification examination offered by the National Certification Board: Perioperative Nursing Inc.

To be eligible for certification, a registered nurse must work in surgical nursing at least two years and pass a four-hour test which covers care of the patient before, during and after surgery.

Teets has been at St. Francis since 1982.

Rondal A. Morgan, quarry supervisor for Lone Star Industries Inc., a Cape Girardeau cement plant, has been elected to a two-year term on the Mississippi Valley Chapter Board of Directors for the Society of Explosive Engineers.

Morgan, of Benton, has been with Lone Star 17 years.

Carole Heisserer, a general surgery nurse specialist at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, has been named "Nurse of the Year" by the Southeast Missouri chapter of the Association for Operating Room Nurses (AORN).

Heisserer, who has a BSN degree from Webster University of St. Louis, has been employed at St. Francis since June of 1987.

Dr. Kyle E. Brost of Cape Girardeau recently attended the Heart of America Contact Lens and Primary Congress held in Kansas City.

New and advanced techniques for all types of contact lenses and treatment of external eye and eyelid problems were discussed.

Brost, who maintains his office at 37 Doctors Park in Cape Girardeau, has been a member of the Heart of America Contact Lens Society 11 years. He is an alumnus of the University of Missouri-St. Louis School of Optometry.

Barbara Barklage of the Community Counseling Center will be the guest speaker at a money management seminar to be held March 17 at the center, 402 S. Silver Springs Road in Cape Girardeau.

"Money Management is a Family Affair," is the title of discussion, to be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Additional information is available by calling 334-1100.

Ernie Hickman of Scott City was honored recently by United Parcel Service (UPS) for 30 years service with the company.

Hickman is a tractor trailer driver with UPS in Cape Girardeau.

He started with the firm as a package-car driver in 1964.

Michael Martin, a rice grower from Bernie, has been selected for the Rice Leadership Development Program by the USA Rice Council.

He will attend four one-week sessions designed to give him a comprehensive look at the rice industry. The program is sponsored by Du Pont, through a grant to the Rice Foundations and administered by the USA Rice Council.

Dr. Robert Kessinger, a specific chiropractor from Cape Girardeau, was guest speaker recently at the Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, Mo.

Kessinger discussed chiropractic and its role in health.