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occupations, setting up programs to train skilled workers, increasing the number of doctors and other health care workers in rural areas and recruiting workers from other states, she said.
• Olson said officials are now putting together statistics to determine whether the programs have helped narrow the gap between supply and demand for workers in key industries, and will give the committee an update at its next meeting, tentatively set for July 11.
• The workforce programs were put together after looking at the need for workers in information technology, financial services, manufacturing and health care fields, as well as the need for more teachers in science, math, technology and engineering,
• Committee members noted that one of Daugaard's programs, a contract with a national recruiting firm, has not worked as well as projected. The company was supposed to help fill 1,000 jobs in three years, but only 83 had been filled a year after the contract was signed.
• It's since been modified to let South Dakota businesses use other recruiters and be reimbursed for part of their expenses.
• South Dakota's unemployment rate is traditionally among the lowest in the nation -- 4.1 percent in April. But lawmakers said many workers can be retrained so they can get higher-paying jobs.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Dr. Daniel J. Heinemann of Canton is the new president of the South Dakota State Medical Association.
• Heinemann succeeds Dr. Robert Allison of Pierre as head of the association of physicians and medical students.
• Heinemann is a chief medical officer for Sanford Health Network and Sanford Clinic.
• At its annual meeting last week, the Medical Association elected Mary J. Milroy of Yankton as president-elect. Tim M. Ridgway of Brandon was elected vice president, John R. Fritz of Aberdeen was chosen as secretary, and H. Thomas Hermann of Sturgis was elected treasurer.
• The Medical Association's distinguished service award was presented to Rodney Parry, former dean of the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine.
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