Paula Burkes
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Oklahoma City, OK, United States
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Saints CEO brings small-town values to growing medical system
AUG 8, 2016 - Tammy Powell, chief executive at St. Anthony Hospital, talked with The Oklahoman on the medical center's 118th birthday about her job and Saints' mission of putting the patient first. She began as a nurse at the hospital in 1988. → Read More
Data on your personal phone may be available to your employer
JUL 19, 2016 - Data on your personal phone may be available to your employer, says lawyer Kathryn D. Terry. → Read More
Q&A with Wayne Pettigrew
JUL 13, 2016 - Employers should have timely responses to marketplace notices on health care for their employees. → Read More
Q&A with Courtney Bru: Employing summertime workers can trigger specific laws
JUL 12, 2016 - Interns generally must be paid minimum wage and overtime, but there are possible exceptions to this rule. → Read More
Business Q&A with Craig A Fitzgerald
JUL 7, 2016 - Oklahoma, other states limit flights of unmanned aircraft. → Read More
Q&A with Lisette Barnes
JUN 30, 2016 - Changing laws could bring beer revival to Oklahoma → Read More
Q&A with Timothy Lloyd
JUN 25, 2016 - Taking precautions, proper drainage can help reduce threat from mosquitoes. → Read More
Small employers reap benefits through SHOP program
JUN 19, 2016 - Oklahoma businesses that employ 50 and under can buy insurance year-round through the Small-business Health Options Program (SHOP). → Read More
Informational interview can be a big benefit for networking job seekers
MAY 22, 2016 - In informational interviews — which are known also as conversational interviews — job seekers arrange meetings with professionals to get advice on their career, the industry, and the corporate cultures of potential employers. → Read More
Q&A with John Wiscaver
Oklahomans can be safer if they do spring-cleaning in their medicine cabinets. → Read More
Home for Boeing personnel is where the planes are
Business is taking off for Boeing in Oklahoma. The company, which has hired 500 over the past year, in the next few months will complete a new $80 million, 290,000-square-foot, two-story building, celebrate its 100th anniversary in July, and, by year-end, grow to an estimated 3,000 employees statewide from a current 2,400. → Read More
Restaurateur brings New England-style fare to Eddie's in Edmond
New York native and restaurateur brings 24 years of experience to Eddie's Bar & Grill in Edmond. His eatery specializes in steaks and pasta dishes with a New England flavor. → Read More
Many Oklahoma retirees keep working in 'bridge jobs,' encore careers
APR 3, 2016 - Mashell Sourjohn, associate state director at AARP Oklahoma, said one of three successful businesses owners is an “encore entrepreneur.” → Read More
Edmond hairdresser, cancer survivor finds salvation in maintaining 50-year career
APR 3, 2016 - Ida Newton is a one-woman hairdresser operation, juggling about 35 customers four days a week, including one woman who has come at 8:30 a.m. every Saturday for 46 years. → Read More
Mind Your Own Business: Health care consumerism overstated, study shows
Think Obamacare will cover your next colonoscopy or flu shot? Think again. Depending on how the procedure is coded, you very well could receive a bill. A girlfriend got dinged with charges for doctor’s office visits when she took her daughters to get flu shots last fall. Both my mother and a friend were charged balances on their mammograms. And for a recent colonoscopy, I had to push an appeal… → Read More
Q&A with Tom Kilpatrick
Besides registering with the Federal Aviation Administration, three basic guidelines are require of drone fliers: Keep it within sight, below 400 feet, and at least five miles away from airports, unless you have notified the FAA. → Read More
Executive Q&A: Oklahoma City law firm's managing director doesn't want to get out of practice
Michael "Mike" Lauderdale, who will be with McAfee & Taft 26 years in May, succeeds Richard Nix as the law firm's managing director. → Read More
Oklahoma City consultant encourages leaders to focus on workers' good results
Nathan Mellor, the chief executive of Strata Leadership and Principal Technologies staffing firm spoke at an Oklahoma Business Ethics Consortium luncheon at the Oklahoma City Petroleum Club. → Read More
Seniors struggle to pay for constantly rising long-term care insurance
The Oklahoman has fielded several emails and calls from readers who are struggling to pay soaring insurance premiums on long-term care policies bought years ago. All have policies with Genworth, and all have had their rates raised repeatedly. → Read More
Escalating long-term insurance cost has Oklahomans frustrated
Officials with the Oklahoma Insurance Department blame the premium increases on bad actuarial assumptions, and say such increases are common to the older form policies sold by all companies offering long-term care insurance. → Read More