Local Chapter update: The value of the chapter agreement form

ACDIS requires the Local Chapter leaders to sign and return an agreement form annually. Though it may seem like a hassle at first, the agreement form provides a valuable framework for a chapter’s structure and formalizes the relationship between ACDIS National and the Local Chapters.

Local Chapter leaders agree, through signing the form, to facilitate at least two meetings per year, use the online membership roster, and provide updates to ACDIS National—among other things—but ACDIS National also agrees to provide support to the chapters in meaningful ways.

Though ACDIS National doesn’t have any financial ties to the chapters, ACDIS National leadership wants to help in as many ways as possible to facilitate networking and collaboration amongst the ACDIS members nationwide. Here are just a few things ACDIS agrees to do:

• Assist the chapter leadership in addressing educational and networking needs within the CDI community.
• Provide chapter members with discounts on National membership.
• Donate up to two ACDIS-related products to aid chapter events.
• Disseminate the local chapter event information to all ACDIS members nationwide through the ACDIS website and CDI Strategies.

In order to be entitled to these benefits, however, chapter leaders need to fill out the agreement form on an annual basis. Though signing the form holds leaders to a standard for the following year, the agreement also entitles them to help and support from ACDIS National.

If you are a leader and have not signed the agreement form this year, please fill it out by clicking here and email it to Melissa Varnavas (mvarnavas@acdis.org) and Linnea Archibald (larchibald@acdis.org).

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 and Linnea Archibald.

June:

• The Michigan ACDIS Chapter meets Friday, June 23, at noon, via webinar presentation with ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Melissa Varnavas on career ladders and salary expectations. For information, contact Susan Haley (shaley@theclarogroup.com).
• The Georgia ACDIS Chapter meets on Friday, June 23, 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at Archbold Medical Center in Thomasville. For information, contact Julie Bell (julie2.bell@coniferhealth.com).
• The California ACDIS Chapter meets on Wednesday, June 28, noon, via conference call. For information, contact Rani Stoddard (stoddardrv@henrymayo.com). 
• The Maryland ACDIS Chapter holds its bimonthly meeting on Friday, June 30, 1-3 p.m., at the Maryland Hospital Association in Elkridge. For information, contact Andrea Norris (anorris@uchs.org).

July:

• The New York-Suffolk County Long Island ACDIS Chapter holds its quarterly meeting on Wednesday, July 12, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., at Catholic Healthcare Services of Long Island in Melville. For information, contact Trisha Braverman (trisha.braverman@stonybrookmedicine.edu).
• The St. Louis Missouri ACDIS Chapter meets on Wednesday, July 12, 6:30-8 p.m., at Missouri Baptist Medical Center in Auditorium 1. For information, contact Michael McKelvey (michael.mckelvey@bjc.org).
• The Missouri ACDIS Chapter meets Friday, July 12, 11 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., via conference call. For information, contact Bonita Baer (baerbg@health.missouri.edu).
• The Washington Evergreen ACDIS Chapter is tentatively planning a meeting on Friday, July 21 at 11 a.m. For information, contact Lillian Dickey (Lillian.Dickey@providence.org).
• The Central Pennsylvania ACDIS Chapter meets on Friday, July 28, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Hanover Hospital in Hanover. For information, contact Amy Sterner (sterner@hanoverhospital.org).

August:

• The Massachusetts Chapter meets on August 11, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the Crowne Plaza in Newton. Registration information will be forthcoming.
• The North Carolina ACDIS Chapter holds its summer conference on Friday, August 25, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Wilson Memorial Hospital (Duke Lifepoint Hospital). For information, contact Linda Rhodes (Linda.Rhodes@nhrmc.org).
• The Florida ACDIS Chapter meets Saturday, August 26, 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. A meet-n-greet time will be held at a local restaurant (place to be determined) on the Friday night prior to the event. For information, contact Deb Dallos (Deb-Dallos@smh.com).

Save-the-date

• The California ACDIS Chapter holds its third-annual conference Friday, September 15, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Torrance Memorial Medical Center. For information, contact Rani V. Stoddard (stoddardrv@henrymayo.com).
• The Alabama ACDIS Chapter holds an all-day fall event on Friday, September 15, 8:30 a.m. to3 p.m., at Baptist Shelby in Alabaster. For information, contact Jeffrey Morris (jwmorris@health.southalabama.edu).
• Missouri’s three ACDIS local chapters join for a full-day conference event on Saturday, October 14, at the University of Kansas Hospital. For information, contact Michael McKelvey (michael.mckelvey@bjc.org).
• 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 North Carolina ACDIS Chapter holds its fall conference with Carolinas Healthcare System Northeast on Friday, November 10. For information, contact Linda Rhodes (Linda.Rhodes@nhrmc.org).