Local chapter update: Deadline for submitting your leadership agreement forms past

The deadline for submitting your ACDIS Local Chapter Agreement Form has officially past. The agreement forms must be signed by three volunteers from three different organizations annually by January 30.

Chapters and/or networking groups that do not complete the form by the deadline are not considered to have official standing with the national organization. This means those chapters/groups are not eligible for the many benefits outlined in the form.

Thus far, only half the local chapters have filed their agreement forms with the national organization by the deadline.

Please take a moment to review your records and ensure you’ve submitted the annual form. If you have not, please take a close and careful look at the form, sign it, and return it to ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Melissa Varnavas (mvarnavas@acdis.org) and Editor Linnea Archibald (larchibald@acdis.org) as soon as possible.

Should you have any questions, please contact Varnavas and Archibald. To review and sign the 2018 agreement form, click here.

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).

February:

• The Kentucky ACDIS chapter meets on Thursday, February 1, 1-4 p.m., at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown. For information, contact Leah Savage (leah.savage@nortonhealthcare.org).
• The South Carolina ACDIS chapter meets Friday, February 2, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Palmetto Baptist Health in Columbia. For information, contact Mary Hopkins (mary.hopkins@hcahealthcare.com).
• The Suffolk County Long Island ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, February 7, 2-5 p.m., at Brookhaven Memorial Medical Center in Patchogue. Please RSVP to scacdis@gmail.com by February 2. For information, contact Patti McKenna (pmckenna@bmhmc.org).
• The Maryland ACDIS chapter meets on Friday, February 16, 1-3 p.m., at the Maryland Hospital Association in Elkridge. For information, contact Candace Blankenship (evalani3@msn.com).
• The CDI Educator ACDIS networking group meets on Thursday, February 22, 12-1 p.m., pacific, via webinar to discuss the topic of CDI educators and data. For information, contact M.E. VanGelder (me.vangelder@honorhealth.com).
• The North Carolina ACDIS chapter meets Friday, February 23, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington. Please RSVP by Friday, February 16. For information, contact ncacdis@gmail.com.

March:

• The Massachusetts ACDIS Chapter meets Friday, March 2, 9:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at Baystate Health in Springfield. Click here to download the agenda. Please RSVP to by February 23. For information and to RSVP, contact Lara Faustino (lara.faustino@bmc.org).
• The Arizona ACDIS chapter meets on Wednesday, March 21, at HonorHealth-Shea Medical Center in Scottsdale. More details will follow. For information, contact Alma Yap (rnalmay@gmail.com).

Save-the-date:

• The Washington Evergreen and Oregon ACDIS chapters meet for a joint meeting on Friday, April 6, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., at PeaceHealth in Vancouver. Please register by March 15. For information, contact the Evergreen chapter leadership team (evergreenACDIS@gmail.com) or Linda Dawson (linda.dawson@providence.org).
• The South Carolina ACDIS chapter tentatively plans to meet Friday, June 8, at MUSC in Charleston. For information, contact Mary Hopkins (mary.hopkins@hcahealthcare.com).
• Missouri's three ACDIS chapters meet Saturday, October 20, for the third annual Show Me State Conference at SSM DePaul in St. Louis. For information, contact Mariann Dinello (mariann.dinello@ssmhealth.com or 314-344-6286).