Business Beat

Banking

Numerica Credit Union has hired Toby Flood as internal senior loan officer and Ben Richardson as senior vice president of finance. Flood has 20 years of experience in the financial industry, previously working as a home mortgage consultant for Wells Fargo. Richardson has 18 years of experience in corporate finance and previously worked as senior vice president and director of capital planning for Banner Bank.

Mountain West Bank has hired Arshia Mullen as manager of its Ramsey branch in Coeur d’Alene. Mullen has 16 years of retail-banking experience, and previously worked as senior relationship banker at Wells Fargo Bank.

Law

Winston & Cashatt has hired Casey R. Simmons. Her primary practices focus on personal injury, criminal defense and civil litigation. Simmons worked previously for six years as a deputy prosecuting attorney for Kootenai County.

Honors

The J.D. Power 2019 Dealers of Excellence has certified 15 Larry H. Miller Dealership locations in its Dealer of Excellence program, including the Larry H. Miller Lexus Spokane dealership. The award recognizes exceptional customer service. Larry H. Miller Dealerships is the eighth-largest dealership group in the United States.

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children’s Hospital was honored for the 10th consecutive year with the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The hospital has the lowest arrival-to-treatment times in the region.