Business Beat

By Staff
Feb. 2, 2003
Local physician receives fellowship
Dr. John Mutziger has received a fellowship from the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine.
Mutziger, a charter member of AOAAM, received his diplomate in AOAAM in 1995. He is past president of the Mississippi Osteopathic Academy and was program chairman for eight years.
The award of fellow is bestowed upon AOAAM members for meritorious service and represents a high level of competency, outstanding leadership qualities, and recognition by the physician's peers.
Mutziger is medical director of the Medical Detoxification Unit at Alliance Health Center and Okatibbee Family Medical Center in Meridian.
Riley WomanCare Birth Place nurses earn obstetrics certification
Registered nurses Heather Patchin and Lynn Bush, both on staff at Riley Hospital's WomanCare Birth Place, have earned certification in inpatient obstetrics through the National Certification Corporation.
Patchin, of Union, has worked at Riley Hospital for four years. Bush, of Gilbertown, Ala., has worked at Riley for seven years.
The National Certification Corporation is a not-for-profit organization that provides a national certification program for nurses who work in obstetric, gynecological and neonatal nursing specialties.
Businessman named to Mississippi Employment Security Commission
JACKSON James H. Finley, president and chief executive officer of Craft-Co Enterprise Inc. in Morton, has been named to the Mississippi Employment Security Commission representing central Mississippi.
Finley, a Brandon resident, will serve on the three-member commission that is the governing body of the agency.
Finley has worked in the automotive industry since 1967. He formerly held management positions with Chrysler and Ford before joining Craft-Co Enterprises Inc., an automotive parts manufacturer, in 1990.
A native of Mobile, Finley holds his bachelor's and master's degrees from Central Michigan University. He and his wife, LaVerne, have three children and two grandchildren.
Finley joins chairman George E. Powell of Byhalia and Commissioner Sue Wright of Lucedale. The commissioners serve a four-year term and may be re-appointed. Finley assumes the term of Bennie R. Dixon, who had to relinquish an appointment due to a job transfer.
MESC is a state agency with three major functions: finding Mississippians jobs, paying benefits to eligible unemployed workers during limited periods of unemployment and gathering and disseminating labor market information.