Ingram's Magazine: February 2025

Ingram’s February 2025 Digital Edition

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2025 Heroes in Healthcare

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2025 ADMINISTRATION: Gretchen Britt, Liberty Hospital Information technology and IT administration, Gretchen Britt drolly confesses, “was not on my bingo card when I went to nursing school.” And that makes all the more interesting the story of her…more

2025 Icons of Education

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2025 The building blocks of a regional work force start coming together in early childhood education, take shape in K-12 schools and become hardened and sized for success on college campuses. All along the way are education professionals…more

Has the Tide Turned?

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2025 It’s been a top-of-mind question for educators, workforce development executives, and hiring managers for years: When will the erosion in college enrollment trends stop? Well, a one-year slice of that trendline is too thin to draw long-term…more

Curing the Pandemic Hangover

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2025 Five years after the word “COVID” panicked the planet, the immediate threat has largely subsided, some painful public-health lessons have been learned, a considerable amount of public trust must be reclaimed, and in some cases, key business…more

The Circle Tightens

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2025 Onset of the global pandemic in 2020 prompted dire warnings from America’s health-care systems, which rang alarm bells about revenues plummeting as people avoided hospitals for elective procedures. In some ways, they were right. On the whole?…more

Securing Educational Futures

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2025 In the ever-evolving landscape of wealth management, one area that continues to demand attention is planning for the cost of a college education. For affluent families, the challenge is more than how to pay for the cost…more

Executive Orders and Your Benefit Planning

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2025 Recent executive orders by President Trump introduced drastic changes within employer-sponsored health benefits, from prescription-drug costs to complying with the Affordable Care Act. Many of these changes may puzzle employers and benefits administrators; however, they must stay…more

Slow and Steady Employers Win the DEI Race

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2025 Within his first two days of taking office, President Trump signed several executive orders rolling back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the federal government. These orders generally: • Eliminated DEI programs in federal agencies. •…more

The Office Market: Uncertainty and Change

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2025 The pandemic that struck in early 2020 reshaped lives in ways that will be felt for generations. It also profoundly changed the office market. Professional firms, corporate headquarters, call centers, IT operations, and countless other industries had…more

Shock and Awe

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2025 It started off with The Village People singing and dancing their hit “YMCA” in a pre-inaugural rally with President Trump doing his iconic dance along with them. On January 20, Day One, Trump implemented a slew of…more

Deflated Dreams

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2025 Well … that certainly was an unexpected outcome. With visions of threepeating dancing in their heads, the Kansas City Chiefs were brusquely jolted back to reality in Super Bowl LIX, a 40-22 beatdown at the hands of…more