WATERLOO, Iowa — Alan Morris has been promoted to director of alternate care programs for VGM Group and "will be responsible for leading VGM into new opportunities in the health care marketplace, as well as continuing to develop some of our current offerings," VGM & Assoc. President Ron Bendell said in a release.

Morris will work on developing the group's Home Nursing Network of America, which offers independent home health agencies participation in national managed care contracts, into a group purchasing alliance, along with developing new alternate care programs in telehealth and infusion drug services. Morris has been a regulatory analyst with VGM.