LHI hiring 1,200 to meet demand for veteran medical exams

Company bringing in about 30 people a week 

Logistics Health Inc. of La Crosse is getting ready to double its staff size to meet demand for medical exams to be given to veterans. 

Its immediate mission is to hire 1,200 new workers in the next year but that could take a lot of searching.

“Unemployment being as low as it is, it’s very difficult to find the number personnel totally from this region,” LHI founder Don Weber said.

Weber says the contract for exams is partly designed to get vets to seek local medical care instead of relying on government care centers.  

“Veterans should be able to have access to their local docs,” Weber said. “It should be no different than if I want to go to Gundersen or Mayo. I should be able to do that. And that’s the direction it’s going and you’re going to see more consistent healthcare and it’s going to cost the taxpayers considerably less.”

Weber says there’s a 30-30 goal to these new LHI contracts – to get a 30-day window to process the exams for vets and to make sure they don’t have to travel more than 30 miles from home.

Logistics is also bringing in about 30 more people a week and should have 300 new employees in place when the contracts begin to take effect in January, according to Weber.

The last empty spaces are being filled at his main campus along the Mississippi River. Weber thinks about 400 people will work at the Belle Square complex still being built near the La Crosse courthouse.