Local chapter update: Local and ACDIS national leadership collaboration

Continuing our journey through the 2019 chapter agreement form, this week, let’s discuss the collaboration between local and national leadership. As a reminder, ACDIS national requires chapter leaders to submit a signed agreement form annually by January 30.

Section II.a of the agreement form describes the collaborative relationship between ACDIS national and chapter leadership. To foster this collaboration, local chapter leaders agree to:

• Strongly encourage all local chapter members to join the national ACDIS organization, reminding members of the importance and benefits of national offerings.
  • ACDIS recommends all participating chapter members to be members of national.
  • Local leaders must encourage local chapter members to complete the online membership roster and obtain their national membership discount.
• Regularly provide updates to national on networking and leadership activities by:
  • Requiring local chapter members update their contact information, using the ACDIS provided online membership roster, twice a year, no later than February 1 and August 1.
  • If for any reason this online membership roster cannot be used, the leadership team must reach out to national to discuss viable alternatives.
• Provide ACDIS national with ongoing updates regarding local chapter organizational structure and developments as well as meeting and event information, which ACDIS shall publish at its discretion.
  • Include ACDIS leadership on any correspondence between the leadership and its members.
  • Invite national representatives to attend leadership conference calls.

If you haven’t sent in your 2019 chapter agreement form yet, please review, sign, and submit it as soon as possible. If you have any questions, contact Associate Editorial Director Melissa Varnavas (mvarnavas@acdis.org) and Editor Linnea Archibald (larchibald@acdis.org).

The following is a list of upcoming events for ACDIS local chapters. If you have an upcoming event you would like to include, please email Varnavas and Archibald.

March:

• The Pediatric ACDIS networking group (APDIS) meets Thursday, March 7, 3 p.m., eastern. For information, contact Val Bica (valerie.bica@nemours.org) and Leah Savage (leah.savage@BHSI.com).
• The Heart of Missouri ACDIS chapter meets Thursday, March 21, 5-8 p.m., at Boone Hospital Center, Conference Center 1A, in Columbia. For information, contact Karen Elmore (kelmore@bjc.org).
• The Virginia ACDIS chapter meets for their spring meeting on Saturday, March 23, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the atrium conference room on the fourth floor of Johnston-Willis Hospital in Richmond. For information, contact Fran DeLisser (Franchesca_Delisser@bshsi.org).
• The Missouri and California ACDIS chapters join on Wednesday, March 27, at 2 p.m., eastern, for a webinar on the state of the industry with ACDIS Editorial Director Melissa Varnavas. To register, click here.
• The Tennessee ACDIS chapter meets Friday, March 29, 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville.Please RSVP by March 22. For information and to RSVP, contact Sherri Clark (sclark@utmck.edu).
• The Georgia ACDIS chapter meets Friday, March 29, 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., at Piedmont Athens Hospital in Athens. For information, contact Jamie Doster (doster.j@icloud.com).

April:

• The Kansas City, Missouri, ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, April 10, 2-4 p.m. central, at Truman Medical Center in Kansas City. For information, contact Angelica Naylor (angelica.naylor@outlook.com).
• The Maryland ACDIS chapter meets Friday, April 12, 12-2 p.m., at the Maryland Hospital Association in Elkridge. Visit the Maryland page on the ACDIS website for the rest of the year’s lineup. For information, contact Deborah McClain (dmcclain2@fmh.org).
• The Central Pennsylvania ACDIS chapter meets Friday, April 19, at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey. For information, contact Deanne Wilk (dwilk@pennstatehealth.psu.edu).
• The Massachusetts ACDIS chapter meets Thursday, April 25, 12-3 p.m. at Trinity Health Care, central business office in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Please RSVP by April 10 as space is limited. To RSVP and for information, contact Jessica Barberio (jessica.barbeiro@steward.org).
• The Washington Evergreen ACDIS chapter meets Friday, April 26, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Swedish Hospital in Issaquah. Please register by April 16. For information and to register, contact the chapter leadership team (evergreenACDIS@gmail.com).

Save-the-date:

• The Pediatric Networking Group (APDIS) meets Thursday, June 6, 3 p.m., via webinar. For information, contact Valerie Bica (valerie.bica@nemours.org).
• The Georgia ACDIS chapter meets Saturday, June 8, in Savannah. Please note that this meeting will include a volunteer opportunity with the Help End Hunger Food Bank. For information, contact Jamie Doster (doster.j@icloud.com).
• The Kansas City, Missouri, ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, June 12, 2-4 p.m. central. More details to come. For information, contact Angelica Naylor (angelica.naylor@outlook.com).
• The Georgia ACDIS chapter meets Thursday, September 19, at Northeast Georgia Medical Center. More information to follow. For information, contact Jamie Doster (doster.j@icloud.com).
• The Michigan ACDIS chapter meets Saturday, October 5, at McLaren Hospitality House in Flint. Click here to download the save-the-date. More details to come. For information, contact Susan Fantin (susan.fantin@comcast.net).
• Missouri's three ACDIS chapters meet Saturday, October 19, 2019, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., for the fourth annual Show Me State Conference at Boone Hospital in Columbia. Click here to download the save-the-date. More information to follow. For information, contact Karen Elmore (kelmore@bjc.org).
• The Washington Evergreen ACDIS chapter meets Friday, October 25, at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue. More details to follow. For information, contact the chapter leadership team (evergreenACDIS@gmail.com).
• The Kansas City, Missouri, ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, December 4, 2-3 p.m. central, via webinar. For information, contact Angelica Naylor (angelica.naylor@outlook.com).