Blog

19 Oct

Going Beyond WIC

At CDP, we pride ourselves on being one of the nation’s top Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) providers, which is impressive since we’ve only been in the WIC EBT business since 2009. We may have nestled into a comfortable position with WIC, but there’s a whole lot more to what we offer.We want to provide a cl...

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01 Oct

October 2018 Employee of the Month

Congratulations to Trysh Thompson for being named October 2018’s Employee of the Month. Her nomination was provided by Michelle Goins, Director of Customer Service and Support.“Trysh works on every RFP we receive, she does an amazing job with documentation but she does so much more. She has taken on the responsibility of maintaining the Website, all of our social media, and even ...

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14 Sep

Quality Assurance Update: We Are So Much More Than Just Breaking Software

There’s a common misconception that the quality assurance (QA) team swoops in after software is developed, breaks it, and then poof, production software magically happens.Software development is hardly magical. It takes a lot of man hours from a development team that includes so much more than just people who write code.Equally as important as the people who create the code ar...

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10 Sep

September 2018 Employee of the Month

Congratulations to Scott Pralle, EBT Account Manager, for being CDP’s September 2018 Employee of the Month. His nomination was sent in by Amy Duncan, Director of the Project Management Office.“Scott Pralle has gone above and beyond his role as the EBT Account Manager to support more than just our clients, but also the retailer community by troubleshooting, researching, seeking re...

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20 Jul

Customer Service Update: We put the Custom in Customer Support

What is your biggest pet peeve?I’ll wait while you narrow down the list.While you’re thinking, let me tell you mine. I cannot stand bad customer service. Waiting on hold forever, or even worse yet, running around in circles on an automated system. As someone who provides customer service for a living, that’s just unacceptable. Customer service is paramount. We’re ...

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16 Jul

July 2018 Employee of the Month

July’s employee of the month, nominated by Vice President of Operations, Steve Marston and Virginia Maloney, is Mike Combs.In addition to all he handles on a normal day, he has been taking it upon himself to help train users and correct files so that month-end remittance processing can take place on time. Additionally, he’s pulled some late nights, followed immediately by early m...

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27 Jun

Ask the CEO: Why is CDP’s focus on public health?

In the early 1980s, our founder, Jack Marston, recognized the lack of computing resources and systems in the public health agencies in Kentucky. He began building systems for these agencies to support their programs, including health inspections, clinic visits and services, and WIC. CDP established a presence in Frankfort, Kentucky by hiring key personnel, some of whom are still with the company...

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17 Jun

Pass the Veggies, it’s National Eat Your Vegetables Day

My mom invited me out to lunch a few weeks back, where I ordered a spinach and strawberry salad, which is my new summertime favorite. She didn’t know this, however, so she had to pick her jaw up off the table and put her eyes back in their sockets.When my food was delivered, she made it a point to watch me shovel my salad into my mouth and chew. I half expected her to ask me to open up s...

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15 Jun

Recruiting Update: We’re Going to Be Hiring All Year Long

Over the past ten years, CDP has grown by leaps and bounds. Not only have we added new clients to our Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), and Environmental Health product lines, we have moved into some new areas of public health. In addition, we introduced the world to Data Direct, our data warehouse solution built on industry-leading software platforms.To sup...

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06 Jun

June 2018 Employee of the Month

The June 2018 Employee of the Month was nominated by Marvin Barlow, and he had this to say:“Jenine has worked many years, too many to name,  for CDP in home health and is one of those employees who does her job day in and day out but gets very little recognition. To ensure that she is knowledgeable on all aspects of home health, she is constantly researching policies, procedures, ...

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15 May

Project Management Office update: CDP Project Managers are 100% PMP-Certified

Picture this: it’s lunchtime and you’re starving, with a craving for a big, juicy burger. In the near vicinity there are three options—a fast food place, a grill that is known for great ribs (but serves burgers), and burger joint. You’re getting older (ahem) and want to limit your intake of greasy, yet delicious, food; however, if you’re going to splurge, you are go...

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07 May

May 2018: Employees of the Month

There is so much going on at CDP right now, that it’s hard to narrow it down to a single employee to recognize for the month of June, so we are recognizing two employees.Both employees were nominated by Treasurer, Kelly Pralle, and she had this to say:Bonnie has made a dramatic impact on the processes in Human Resources (HR) and I truly appreciate her efforts, knowledge, attit...

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