Local chapter update: Use the Local Chapter Request Form to request help filling speaker slots!

In need of a resource or a speaker to help facilitate your next meeting? Have no fear: the Local Chapter Request Form is here!

Through this form, you can contact the ACDIS team and request help finding a speaker for your next event, ACDIS CEUs for your meeting, resources to giveaway, chapter training, and more.

Click here to send in your updates and requests now!

The following is a list of upcoming events for ACDIS local chapters! Visit your local chapter’s webpage on the ACDIS site for additional information about upcoming meetings. To join a chapter if you haven’t already or to update your chapter contact information/affiliation, click here.

November:

• The Arizona ACDIS chapter meets Friday, November 15, 12–1:15 p.m., via webinar. The program is titled, “Myocardial Injury, Ischemia, and Infarction,” and will be presented by Shawn MacPhee, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP. For information, contact Dawn Butler (dbutler@honorhealth.com).
• The Maryland ACDIS chapter meets Friday, November 15, 12–1 p.m., via webinar. The program is titled, “Version 42 Grouper APR-DRG/SOI/ROM Structure Updates,” and will be presented by Teresa Krepps, RHIT, CCS, CCDS. For information, contact Florence Blough (fblough@umm.edu).
• The North Carolina ACDIS chapter meets Friday, November 15, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., in person, for their winter conference. For information, contact Kay Blue (Kayblue01@gmail.com).
• The Virginia ACDIS chapter meets Friday, November 15, 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., via webinar. The program is titled, “Lessons Learned: How a Definition Defines Sepsis Outcomes,” and will be presented by Alexis Wells, MSN, RN, LSSYB, CCDS, and Stacie Gandee, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, LSSYB. For information, contact Amanda Palacios (amanda.palacios@rivhs.com).
• The Illinois ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, November 20, 12–1 p.m., via webinar. The program is titled, “The Role of AI in CDI: Questions and Answers,” and will be presented by Joshua Geleris, MD. For information, contact Dorothy Fanning (dorothy.fanning@aah.org).
• The Minnesota ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, November 20, 1–2 p.m., via webinar. The program is titled, “Wounds,” and will be presented by Stefani Henry, BSN, RN, and Ann Dietrich, BSN, RN, RHIA. For information, contact AnneMarie Vannurden (vannurdena@centracare.com).

December:

• The Georgia ACDIS chapter meets Friday, December 6, via webinar for its fourth quarterly meeting. For information, contact James Doster (james.doster@atriumhealth.org).