Local chapter update: Tell us about your summer events!

Summers can be a busy time for folks regardless of profession. Sure, everyone thinks of those lazy, hazy days but summer can also be a perfect time to plan for special, local, CDI networking events.

Some local chapters choose this time to join with other component organizations such as neighboring states or AHIMA or other association chapters. It can be a great time to host a full-day educational session, hosting an event on a Friday with a host facility near a lake, mountain, or other tourist-friendly environ can help entice attendees to come to the event for the education but make a weekend out of it with their family or friends.

Some local chapters take the opposite stance, picking summertime as the optimum opportunity to host a shorter, lunch-and-learn-type event either in-person at a local facility or coffee shop or via remote teleconference line or webinar service.

ACDIS staff can help you with your educational summer event planning just let us know what you’re considering and we’ll do our best to lend a hand.

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).

June:

• 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).
• The Connecticut ACDIS chapter meets on Thursday, June 14, 1:30-3 p.m., at the Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain. For information, contact Nancy Napolitano (napolitanonancy@hotmail.com).
• The Massachusetts ACDIS chapter meets Thursday, June 21, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Agenda to follow. For information, contact Lara Faustino (lara.faustino@bmc.org).
• The CDI Educator ACDIS networking group meets Friday, June 22, 12-1 p.m., via webinar. For information, contact M.E. VanGelder (me.vangelder@honorhealth.com).
• The Arizona ACDIS chapter meets Saturday, June 23, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Brady Conference Center, HonorHealth-Scottsdale Shea Campus. Click here to download the save-the-date flyer. Please RSVP by Monday, June 18. For information and to RSVP, contact the chapter leadership team (azacdischapter@gmail.com) and Debra Beisel Denton (debra.beiseldenton@mihs.org).

July:

• The Westchester/Hudson Valley ACDIS chapter meets Thursday, July 12, 2-4 p.m., at Greater Hudson Valley Health System at the Orange Regional Medical Center Campus. For information, contact Kerry Seekircher (kseekircher@northwell.edu).
• The Washington Evergreen ACDIS chapter meets on Friday, July 20, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., via webinar. Click here to download the save-the-date. For information, contact the chapter leadership team (evergreenacdis@gmail.com).

Save-the-date:

• The CDI Educator ACDIS networking group meets Friday, August 10, 12-1 p.m. PST, via webinar. For information, contact M.E. VanGelder (me.vangelder@honorhealth.com).
• The North Carolina ACDIS chapter meets Friday, August 24, for their summer conference at Mission Health in Asheville. For information, contact the leadership team (ncacdis@gmail.com).
• The Maryland ACDIS chapter meets on Friday, September 14, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Towson. Click here to download the save-the-date flyer. For information, contact Candace Blankenship (evalani3@msn.com).
• The Washington Evergreen ACDIS chapter meets on Friday, September 28, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Trios Women's and Children's Hospital in Kennewick. Click here to download the save-the-date. For information, contact the chapter leadership team (evergreenacdis@gmail.com).
• The Massachusetts ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, October 17, 1-4 p.m., at Kent Hospital in Warwick, Rhode Island. For information, contact Joyce Williams (JWilliams@Lifespan.org).
• 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.