By Chuck Stinnett, Evansville Courier & Press
A company that produces software for hospitals is coming to Henderson with the expectation of bringing 40 jobs paying as much as $80,000 a year.
Innovative Workforce Technologies, or IWT, will be hiring software programmers, computer network technicians, data analysts and project managers at a planned $2 million facility on Kentucky 136-West near the Henderson City-County Airport.
IWT has pledged to bring the 40 jobs - including five to 10 existing positions currently located in Evansville as well as new hires - within three years.
"But we're growing very rapidly" and could create those jobs even sooner, President and CEO Linda Frank said.
IWT also will likely relocate its headquarters from Evansville to Henderson, although it will likely keep its office in Evansville open awhile, Frank said.
"I'm planning to move to Henderson - my office and me and my family," company owner Bernie Hogan declared.
Frank said IWT pays programmers $60,000 to $80,000 per year, depending on experience, and employs network technicians at about $60,000.
IWT was founded in Evansville in 1986 as a health-care consulting company, Frank said.
It moved into software development in 2000 and now concentrates solely on creating computer programs that help nurses register patient information quickly; identifies available hospital beds; turns TVs into interactive computers for patients; and merges computer data from various hospital departments, among other things.
The Henderson facility here also will house a data center housing computer servers for rural hospitals that don't want to maintain such equipment.
"This is a momentous occasion," Mayor Tom Davis declared.