Local chapter update: More than 1,200 CDI professionals reached via local chapter events

CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 47

From August through October there will have been nearly 30 local events offering CDI education and networking across the country. Now, some of these chapters host small, after-hour-type sessions gathering 15 or 20 people to talk about an issue. If these 30 events gathered a minimum of 20 attendees that’s 600 people touched by our local chapters. Some, however, have groups of 50, 75, 100, and even up to 200 attendees.

For example, the Michigan ACDIS chapter held its meeting last week and gathered 73 attendees, had seven speakers on topics such as the IPPS Final Rule, outpatient CDI, malnutrition, Type 2 MI, and physician queries. Today, October 10, the Massachusetts ACDIS Chapter will meet at Boston Children's Hospital and next week features a host of events as well.

Adding them all up one might extrapolate that more than 1,200 CDI professionals will have benefited from local chapter networking and education in these three months alone.

Bravo, to all the local chapter volunteers who make that type of professional outreach possible. Thank you to all the CDI managers and directors who make it a priority for their staff to attend these amazing events. Kudos to those who take their own personal time off and pay their own travel expenses to participate because they understand the value that interpersonal connection and information can have on their professional CDI practices.

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 Melissa Varnavas (mvarnavas@acdis.org) and Linnea Archibald (larchibald@acdis.org).   

October:

November:

  • The Philadelphia/New Jersey/Delaware ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, November 6, 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Jefferson Torresdale Hospital in Philadelphia. For information, contact Gina Stewart (gstewart@e4-services.com).
  • The Tennessee ACDIS chapter meets Friday, November 8, 8:30 a.m., at Parkridge Medical Center in Chattanooga. For information, contact Kristie Perry (kristie.perry@erlanger.org).
  • The Central New York ACDIS chapter meets Friday, November 15, 1-4 p.m., at St. Joseph's Health Hospital in Syracuse. Click here to download the event flyer. For information, contact Dawn Burr (dawnburr@crouse.org).
  • The California ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, November 20, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., via webinar. For information, contact Rani Stoddard (stoddardrv@henrymayo.com).
  • The Arizona ACDIS chapter and the CDI Educators networking group meet Friday, November 22, 12-1 p.m., via webinar. Click here to download the event flyer. For information, contact Jamie Rygiel (JRygiel@yrmc.org).
  • The North Carolina ACDIS chapter meets Friday, November 22, for their fall conference at Atrium Health in Charlotte. More details to follow. For information, contact the chapter leadership team (ncacdis@gmail.com).

Save-the-date:

  • 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).
  • The Chapter Advisory Board invites chapter leaders and members to join them for a panel discussion on Thursday, December 12, 12-1 p.m., via webinar. Click here to register.
 
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