The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce won three awards recently from the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Executive Conference. The chamber won for all three categories in communication: best newsletter, best Web site and best electronic newsletter.

CareStar gets state contract

CareStar Inc., White Oak-based health care management services firm, has signed a deal worth about $140 million with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services over five years. The contract calls for CareStar to provide case management services for about 11,000 home-based Medicaid waiver consumers. It also will manage a network of 6,500 providers of care to those consumers. CareStar, with offices in White Oak, Columbus and Canton, has opened a Dayton office and plans to open another in Cleveland this week. Its workforce will grow to 350 people.