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President’s
Message
By
Anita Doupnik, RHIA – GCHIMA President 2004-2005
For those of you that did not
attend the January GCHIMA meeting, it was a very exciting
meeting on many fronts. First of all, it was standing room
only for Karen Youman’ s informative presentation on ICD-10.
Karen did an excellent job letting us know how to begin
preparing for ICD-10 and giving us a glimpse of what to expect
i n the future of HIM Coding. Fortunately, we had enough food
for everyone, but the crowded room reminded us how important
those RSVP’s are (hint-hint). We received approximately 30
RSVP’ s and there were close to 60 in attendance!! The
Program Committee works hard to ensure that everyone is well
fed and that the accommodations are appropriate, so please
remember to RSVP for the upcoming meetings. Next, we had a
unanimous vote for several bylaw revisions as well as an
approval to spend the monies needed for the development of a
GCHIMA website!! This is terribly exciting, as the
E-Committee worked very hard to find the right company to
partner with in this website endeavor. Cybermedia is the
company that was chosen to develop and maintain our website
and we are hoping to introduce you to the owner of Cybermedia
and to share the “look and feel” of our new website at our
March 16 th meeting. Kudo’s goes out to the
E-Committee which is co-chaired by Jan Kinney and Marion
Godwin. They have done an excellent job working with the
GCHIMA Board on this arduous task of selecting a website and
they continue their enthusiasm for the work that still lies
ahead. If you would like to be a part of this exciting
committee, please contact Cathy Minan or myself (our contact
information is listed under “GCHIMA Officers” in this
newsletter).
On a different topic, our
Nominating Committee just counted the final ballots for next
year’s slate of GCHIMA officers and the results are in for the
2005-2006 GCHIMA Officers: My sincere appreciation goes out
to all the nominees for running for offices including Diane
Lerch, Valery McCleary and Katheen Baldwin. Congratulations
to the following newly elected officers for 2005-2006:
President-Elect: Monica Cole
Secretary: Patricia McWhorter
Delegates:
Linda Brewer, Pam
Haines, Lucelly Miller, Michelle Mock, Melissa Myrick,
1st and 2nd
Alternates: Susan Brown and Barb Bermudez
As
outgoing President of GCHIMA, I would like to thank everyone
for the opportunity to serve our association and to work with
the Board and all of the members this past year. Please
consider stepping up and assisting Cathy Minan, President for
2005-2006 and the new GCHIMA Board. There are many tasks that
lie ahead with our new website and many networking
opportunities that exist within our association. I challenge
each of you to devote just a few hours or more to help our
association grow even stronger! I hope to see you all at the
meeting on March 16 th!
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Budget
Suzanne Spigner, Treasurer announced the
treasurer’s report for Nov/Dec 04 as follows:
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Financial Report for November 1, – December 31, 2004 |
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| BEGINNING
BALANCE AS OF November 1, 2004 |
$
13,516.58 |
| Nov
- Membership Dues |
220.00 |
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TOTAL
CREDITS |
$220.00 |
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Nov – Luncheon Expenses – Sept Meeting
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81.09 |
| Nov
– Review Guide Reimbursements |
100.00 |
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Nov – Speaker Fee – Nov Meeting |
300.00 |
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Nov – Catering – Nov Meeting |
293.86 |
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Dec – Postage – Jan Newsletter |
74.00 |
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Dec – Printing – Jan Newsletter |
83.26 |
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TOTAL
DEBITS |
$932.21 |
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ENDING BALANCE AS OF December 31, 2004 |
$
12,804.37 |
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Program
Cathy Minan, President-Elect announced
the upcoming meeting
information. She thanked our meeting hosting site,
Memorial Hospital in Tampa, and presented our gracious host,
Gloria Irvin, Director of HIS at Memorial Hospital with a
“certificate of appreciation.”
Our March
meeting will be a full day of activities to take place at St.
Petersburg College, Health Education Center located at 7200 -
66th St. N., Pinellas Park (corner of Park Blvd. &
66th St.) on March 16, 2005. The registration will
begin at 8:30 a.m. with the meeting starting promptly at 10:00
a.m. We will also provide a separate area for membership
registrations/renewals for your convenience.
Launching
the day off to a good start with speaker presentations,
followed by a wonderful lunch and plenty of time set aside to
enjoy the company of friends. After lunch an interesting
GCHIMA meeting is scheduled, including the launch of our new
website and introduction of our webmaster. Last but not
least, we will be wrapping up t he day with our traditional
officer installation ceremony. If you need directions and/or
a map, please contact Kathy Gleason.
Reminder: Please RSVP at least one (1) week prior to
each meeting!
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Nominating
The nominations are over, the ballots have been counted, see
the “President’s Message” for all the details. The
installation of new officers will occur at our March meeting
as the tradition continues with a full day of festivities.
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E-Taskforce
Anita shared the progress made so far toward the development
of a website. She introduced Janice Kinney and Marion Godwin
who gave a wonderful presentation about the website, the
progress and what to look forward to in the future (if app
roved by a vote). Anita spoke for the board and the
E-taskforce committee explaining the recommendation of Cybermedia as our webmaster, the cost for the initial creation
of the website, the monthly maintenance cost that pertain to
ongoing costs, what will be involved in the Phase I stage and
the fact that this webmaster will virtually maintain the
entire site and leave it maintenance free for GCHIMA, which is
exactly what was desired for our site. A motion was given and
seconded to vote on “ go-ahead” of the expenditure of
development and ongoing maintenance of a GCHIMA website. A
majority vote was taken and unanimously approved.
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Legislative
FHIMA Hill Day will be on the 10 th of March, 2005
and takes place in Tallahassee. Karla Philippou explained t
he purpose, the process and our goals we have set to
accomplish at Hill Day for members, with the main topic
discussed being the Electronic Health Record (EHR). The AHIMA
Hill Day will be on the March 16 th, 2005 (same day
as our March meeting) and its location is in Washington, D.C.
Mark your calendars!
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F.I.R.E.
We regret to announce that due to other
obligations, Martin Smith will step down as our chairman of
the F.I.R.E. committee. We will be looking for someone to
fill his shoes, as hard as that ma y be. Martin has done a
great job and we want to sincerely thank him for all of his
commitment to Finding, Inspiring, Recruiting and Educating (FI.R.E.).
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New Business
We have not been given a date for “ The Winter Talks” yet, but
as soon as we know , we will inform the membership. We have a
new regional Coding Roundtable representative, Marie Stangl,
from Sarasota Memorial. Anita indicated that we are seeking a
local representative to work with Marie, so please let Cathy
Minan know if you are interested. There will be a full day of
the Coding Roundtable presented at the FHIMA Annual Convention
this year, and lunch will be provided and included in the
daily registration fee.
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Old
Business
No old business.
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Employment Opportunities
Several job openings were announced, and have also been sent
recently to everyone via email. If you would like to
announce an employment opportunity for your facility, call or
email it to Kathy Gleason and she will send it to all the
members with email.
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Membership
It’s that time of year again … the beginning of the 2005-2006
membership drive. The registration form is inserted within
this newsletter. We will have a registration table set up at
the March meeting just for membership registrations/renewals.
Please Note:
Non-Members are required to pay a $10.00 per CEU credit hour
fee for attending a GCHIMA meeting.
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Bylaws
Anita announced that the previous 6 proposed amendments were
going to be voted on requiring a majority vote of 60% of the
attending members. Each amendment was discussed before
the vote. A motion was made and seconded. A
unanimous vote approved all of the proposed bylaws at the
meeting. The updated version will be available within
the upcoming directory and online soon on our GCHIMA website.
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2004-2005 GCHIMA Officers
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