News Releases

• Dean Dorton Ford and Stites & Harbison will be sponsoring a free seminar - Survival and Success in the Brave New World of Health Care Reform  - Click here for more information

• Dean Dorton Ford Named One of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky in 2010

Lexington, KY – DATE – Dean Dorton Ford, PSC has been named one of the best places to work in Kentucky in 2010.  The program is sponsored by the Kentucky SHRM State Council and the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. 

32 companies across the state have been selected in two categories: small/medium-sized (companies of 25 to 249 Kentucky employees) and large-sized (companies of 250 Kentucky employees or greater).

The selection process, managed by Best Companies Group, is based on an assessment of the Company’s employee policies and procedures and the results of an internal employee survey. The competition is a multi-year initiative designed to motivate companies in the Commonwealth of Kentucky to focus, measure and move their workplace environments toward excellence.

The Best Places to Work in Kentucky initiative is based on FORTUNE magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work for in America”list.

 “This is quite an honor for our firm and I appreciate each of our employees who make our offices great places to work every day. If we didn’t have such great folks, we wouldn’t need a great place to work,” says Richard Dorton, CEO.

• Congratulations to Justin Hubbard, Erin McClain, Haley Jones, Jason Mitchell, Brittany Browning, and Lee Livingood, who have all passed the CPA examination.
  
  
• Rachel Brown has accepted a Board of Directors position with the International Book Project in Lexington.
  
  
• Jeff Presser joined Dean Dorton Ford as a Manager of Business Consulting Services.  Jeff has an extensive background in healthcare reimbursement and is part of our Business Consulting Group.
  
  
• Heather Sunseri recently joined Dean Dorton Ford as a Senior Tax Specialist.  Heather began her professional career with DDF and has returned to work with us again.
  
  
• Kyle Bourelle has joined us after graduating from Morehead State University, where he majored in accounting.
  
  
• Megan Mason recently earned her degree from Eastern Kentucky University and is starting her professional career with DDF.
  
  
• Jason Mitchell, Brittany Browning and Lee Livingood have joined us after earning their Master of Science in Accounting degrees from the University of Kentucky. Jason also has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from UK.
  
  
• Paula Hanson recently spoke at a Women Leading Kentucky program on the topic “What’s a Board To Do.”
  
  
• Dean Dorton Ford Selects Web-Based Allscripts Electronic Health Record for Physicians in Kentucky
  
  
• Dean Dorton Ford Technology has met the resource requirements for Cisco Systems's SMB Specialization. DDF Technology is also a Cisco Systems Select Certified Partner.
  
  
• David Parks and John Herring published an article entitled "Practice Valuation - Distinguishing Personal Goodwill from Business Goodwill" in the June 2009 edition of Medical News.
  
  
• Jaclyn Badeau has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Living Arts & Science Center in Lexington.
  
  
• Congratulations to Ashley Hays, John Calabrese, Lisa Wilson, Makenzie Layne, and Tabitha Wilson, who have all passed the CPA examinations and have become licensed CPAs. Congratulations also go out to Julie Whittaker, who has passed the CPA examination.
  
  
• Ozlem Fritz passed the four-part examination to obtain the Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification. This credential denotes experitse in fraud prevention, detection, and deterrence.
  
  
• Phil Amshoff was awarded by the Kentucky Soccer Association for twenty-five years of service as treasurer, a position he has held since KSA's inception.
  
  
• Mike McCreary has been accepted into the Leadership Lexington program. Mike has also been named treasurer of Kentucky Pink Link, an organization whose mission is "to provide support by reducing and/or eliminating barriers to screening, diagnosis, and treatment of breast cancer."
  
  
• Paula Hanson has been elected to the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.
  
  
• Lance Mann has been appointed to the Auditing and Attestation Subcommittee of the American Institute of CPAs. This committee oversees the audit portion of the CPA examination and makes suggestions for improvements.