Local chapter update: KY/IN Chapters raffle off ACDIS memberships, conference seat

ACDIS local chapters come in all shapes and sizes—from coffee shop meet-ups, to all-day events with multiple speakers. Recently, two large local chapters—Kentucky and Indiana—joined forces for a comprehensive full-day event.

This event has taken place annually for many years now and this year the groups were able to do something exiting for their raffles. During the event, the chapters raffled off one- and two-year ACDIS memberships and a seat at the 2018 ACDIS Conference in San Antonio, Texas! The raffle winners are:

• Katie Hernandez (Harmony Healthcare): One-year ACDIS membership
• Teresa Sherman (Norton Healthcare): Two-year ACDIS membership
• Susan Snyder (Baptist Health): Seat at the 2018 ACDIS Conference

From all of us here at ACDIS, congratulations to all three winners! And, congratulations and thanks to the KY/IN chapters for another successful event! We love hearing all about it.

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).

September:

• The next Colorado ACDIS chapter meeting will be Thursday, September 28, 4-6 p.m., at Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette. For information, email Rita.Kolberg@sclhs.net.
• The Maine ACDIS Chapter holds its next meeting on Friday, September 29, 12-4 p.m., at Maine General's Alfond Center for Health, in Augusta. For information, contact Valerie Parent (vparent@emhs.org) and Denise Worcester (denise.worcester@mainegeneral.org).

October:

• The South Carolina ACDIS Chapter meets on Friday, October 6, 8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., at AnMed Health in Anderson. For information, contact Karen Bridgeman (bridgema@musc.edu).
• The Central Pennsylvania ACDIS Chapter meets on Friday, October 6, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Reading Hospital in West Reading. Click here to download the agenda. For information, contact acdiscentralpa@gmail.com.
• The Westchester/Hudson Valley ACDIS Chapter meets Thursday, October 12, 2017, 2-4 p.m., at St. Luke's Cornwell Hospital-Newburgh campus in the Drake Conference Room. Please RSVP by Friday, September 22. For information and to RSVP, contact Kerry Seekircher (kseekircher@northwell.edu).
• Missouri’s three ACDIS local chapters join for a full-day conference event on Saturday, October 14, at the University of Kansas Hospital. To register, click here. For information, contact Michael McKelvey (michael.mckelvey@bjc.org).
• The Michigan ACDIS Chapter meets on Saturday, October 14, 7 a.m.-5 p.m., at McLaren Hospitality House in Flint. For information, contact Patricia Nemeth (pnemeth@clarohealthcare.com).
• The Oregon ACDIS Chapter holds its fall conference on Friday, October 20, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the McMinnville Grand Ballroom in McMinnville. For information, contact Molly Siebert (msiebert@lhs.org).
• The Virginia ACDIS Chapter meets on Saturday, October 21, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Stafford Hospital in Stafford. For information, contact Shelly McBrayer (shelly.mcbrayer@chesapeakeregional.com). 
• The Massachusetts ACDIS Chapter meets on Thursday, October 26, 12-3 p.m., at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester. Please RSVP by October 13. For information and to RSVP, contact Lara Faustino (lara.faustino@bmc.org).
• The Maryland ACDIS Chapter meets on Friday, October 27, 9 a.m.-3:45 p.m., at the Maryland Hospital Association in Elkridge. For information, contact Candace Blankenship (Candace.Blankenship@medstar.net).

November:

• The Kentucky ACDIS Chapter meets on Thursday, November 2, 1-4 p.m., at Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville. For information, contact Leah Savage (leah.savage@nortonhealthcare.org).
• The Suffolk County Long Island ACDIS Chapter meets Friday, November 3, 2-5 p.m., at Stony Brook University Hospital in Stony Brook. Please RSVP by Friday, October 27. To RSVP and for information, contact scacdis@gmail.com.
• The North Carolina ACDIS chapter holds its fall conference on Friday, November 10, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., at the Carolinas HealthCare System CDI Department at the David H. Murdock Research Institute. Please register by Friday, November 3. To register, click here. For information, contact ncacdis@gmail.com.
• The Ilinois ACDIS Chapter meets Thursday, November 30, 1-4 p.m., at Prentice Women's Hospital at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. For information, contact Colleen Stukenberg (cstukenberg@fhn.org).

December:

• The Maine ACDIS Chapter holds a meeting on Friday, December 1, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. For information, contact Valerie Parent (vparent@emhs.org).

Save-the-date:

• The Kentucky ACDIS Chapter meets on Thursday, February 1, 2018, 1-4 p.m., at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown. For information, contact Leah Savage (leah.savage@nortonhealthcare.org).