So often, inspiring individuals in the CDI community go above and beyond their essential everyday work. In large part, it’s thanks to these volunteers that ACDIS can provide guidance, appreciation and recognition programs, celebrations, and support to its members.
We can’t thank chapter leaders enough for all they do to provide their local community with networking, furthering education, and CEU opportunities, and we know their chapter members feel the same. For up to three years, they serve in various, essential ways that work as the glue holding a local...Read More »
Tammy Yohn, BA, RN, CCDS-O, is a lead ambulatory CDI RN for Bellin Gundersen Health Systems in La Crosse, Wisconsin. She has been in the CDI field for seven years. Yohn is an active member of the ACDIS CDI Leadership Council and Resource Library Committee.
FEATURES 7 Trekking into the unknown of outpatient CDI 15 2023 CDI Salary Survey excerpt 24 Case study: Psych reviews 28 Case study: NICU...Read More »
While mortality reviews are not a responsibility in every CDI program, it has become a more and more common practice. Without reviewing mortality cases, many organizations find that their expected mortality (i.e., how severely ill their patients look on paper)...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
CDI is a land of opportunity. We know from our recent survey data that more than half of CDI programs plan to hire new staff this year. This staffing expansion is likely partly due to expansions...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
Since ACDIS conducted its first CDI Salary Survey, respondents have incrementally reported higher annual salaries. Despite the continually tightening margins for healthcare organizations, the...Read More »