March 18, 2019 - Hartford Business Journal

Health Care

🔒Vincent Capece Jr. | President and CEO, Middlesex Health

Amid a push across the state and much of the country, Middlesex Health last month raised the wages of its lowest-paid workers to $15 per hour.

Manufacturing

🔒Hartford region can be a leader in Industry 4.0

Times have changed with the advanced-manufacturing industry, creating a wealth of opportunity for Hartford and other areas of Connecticut.

Banking & Finance

🔒Amid hospital-tax debate, frustrated CEO defends his and other healthcare executives’ pay

It's not often you'll find well-paid executives comfortable talking about how much they make. Bristol Hospital CEO Kurt Barwis, who's earned upwards of $1 million in annual wages and benefits in several recent years, depending on how you measure it, is an exception.

Accounting

🔒Meet HBJ’s 2019 Women in Business

Think Greater Hartford is short on strong women business leaders? Think again.

Energy

🔒Eversource tends to its gas (worker) pipeline

Continuing to expand natural gas service in Connecticut, as well as replace older mains and pipes, has created plenty of work for Eversource.

Economy & Labor

🔒CT biz will adjust to $15 min. wage; state will be stronger for it

As Connecticut lawmakers consider raising the state minimum wage to $15 an hour, some businesses may be thinking, “How could we possibly make that work?”

Health Care

🔒Gaylord Healthcare tests AI for scheduling, care insights

Gaylord Specialty Healthcare is stepping into new territory, exploring machine learning, artificial intelligence and automation software in the hopes of finding new efficiencies and even identifying challenges (and solutions) it didn't know existed.

Baker is Collins Aerospace’s customer problem-solver

You know you're in trouble as a manufacturer when an unhappy customer says they won't even allow you to bid on future business.

Berger-Sweeney enhances Trinity College’s connections with home city

The relationships Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney has forged with businesses and others on behalf of her school, its students and the Hartford community have expanded the private college's outreach and instructed her leadership.

Women’s Health President Bernstein helps doctors keep focus on patients

Last April, Nancy Bernstein, president and chief operating officer of Avon-based Women's Health USA, led the company to complete a partnership with Women's Health Texas, and the association is already paying dividends.

Castelli’s nonprofit makes disenfranchised ‘feel safe and respected’

Each day, Sharon Castelli takes a walk through the Chrysalis Center's main campus of operations in Hartford.

HHC’s Church ‘connects dots’ between workforce engagement, customer experience

Hartford HealthCare Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Tracy Church has streamlined complicated human-resource systems used to attract and retain workers in order to keep those employees engaged and provide the best patient experience.

March 18, 2019Edition

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