Coral Fernandez, RN, CCDS, CCS, is a CDI auditor/educator at Baptist Health System, and a co-chair of the ACDIS CDI educators networking group. She’s been in the CDI field for 20 years, spending the first 16 as a CDI specialist before moving into her current role four years ago.Read More »
Many are familiar with the scene from A Few Good Men where Jack Nicholson’s old-school marine tells Tom Cruise’s younger antagonist, “You can’t handle the truth!” My favorite application of that same line comes from Carl Reiner and Mel...Read More »
It seems like forever ago, but in reality it was about five years ago that I had relocated to California from my home state of New York and was searching for clinical research jobs. I happened to type in foreign...Read More »
Nobody likes being proved wrong, but it’s not always a bad thing. It’s probably okay to be proven wrong when you think it’s a good idea to feed a shark by hand, or to drink a few beers and then tell your buddies you can bite the head off a...Read More »
Patricia Matson Vitasinski, RN, CCDS, is the manager of CDI quality improvement at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan, and has been a Michigan ACDIS chapter board leader for three years. She has been in the CDI field for 19 years.Read More »
Rani Stoddard, MBA, RN, CPHQ, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CDIP, is the CDI and HIM supervisor at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, California, and the secretary, board member, and newsletter editor for the California ACDIS local chapter. She has been in the CDI field since 2014.Read More »
