Local chapter update: Celebrate CDI Week 2018 with your chapter members

CDI Week 2018 is fast approaching and September 17 will be here before we know it. The celebration’s theme is “CDI Mosaic: Creating a Collaborative Portrait.” The ACDIS team would love to see chapters celebrating nationwide, whether they have an in-person event planned or not.

Here are a few ideas to help you celebrate:

• Create a “mosaic” (or a collage) of photos from past meetings and share it with all chapter members
• Send out an email to all your members thanking them for the work they do every day and all their help building the chapter
• Meet virtually and listen to the free CDI Week webinar on Monday, September 17
• Host an after-hours event (even if it’s not during CDI Week) to celebrate together
• Encourage members to send pictures to the chapter leaders of their CDI Week celebrations to share with other members

Even if your chapter isn’t meeting during CDI Week, ACDIS encourages you to take the CDI Week spirit with you throughout the month and continue celebrating. And, don’t forget to send pictures! ACDIS would love to see them.

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 Florida ACDIS chapter meets on Saturday, September 8, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Rao Musunuru Conference Center at Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point in Hudson. Click here to download the agenda. For information, contact Edna Betances-Harold (betane@shands.ufl.edu).
• The Illinois ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, September 12, 12-6:30 p.m., at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital in Lake Forest. For information, contact Jenny Prescia (jprescia@nm.org).
• The Hawaii ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, September 12, 12-2 p.m., at Shriner's Hospital in Honolulu. For information, contact Balbino Canoy (808-233-8223).
• The New Orleans ACDIS chapter meets on Thursday, September 13, 4-5 p.m., at Semolina’s Restaurant in Clearview. For information, contact Judith Dowling (Judith.dowling@ochsner.org).
• 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. Please note that the registration for this event has closed. Click here to download the save-the-date flyer. For information, contact Candace Blankenship (evalani3@msn.com).
• The Suffolk County Long Island ACDIS chapter meets Friday, September 14, 9:30-11:30 a.m., at Stony Brook University Hospital in Stony Brook. For information, contact the chapter leadership team (scacdis@gmail.com).
• The Kansas City Missouri ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, September 19, 2-4 p.m., at North Kansas City Hospital in Kansas City. For information, contact Angelica Naylor (Angelica.Naylor@nkch.org).
• The Oklahoma ACDIS chapter meets Friday, September 21, 1-3 p.m., at INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center, in the Bennett Room, in Oklahoma City. Click here to download the save-the-date. For information, contact Amanda Just (amanda.just@integrisok.com).
• The Virginia ACDIS chapter meets on Saturday, September 22, at Chippenham Hospital, Krauss Conference Room (second floor), in Richmond, featuring a discussion on sepsis and coding and regulatory updates for 2019. RSVP by September 18. For information, contact Shelly McBrayer (shelly.mcbrayer@chesapeakeregional.com).
• The Minnesota ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, September 26, 1-2 p.m. via conference call. For information, contact Jera Van Damme (jera.vandamme@essentiahealth.org).
• 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 leadership team (evergreenacdis@gmail.com).
• The Georgia ACDIS chapter meets Friday, September 28, 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., at Trinity Community Ministries in Atlanta. Please register by Friday, September 14. For information, contact the chapter leadership team (georgia.acdis@gmail.com).

October:

• The Arizona ACDIS chapter and the Arizona component of AHIMA meet on Saturday, October 6, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at MIHS in Phoenix. For information, contact Debra Beisel Denton (debra.beiseldenton@mihs.org).
• The Michigan ACDIS chapter meets Saturday, October 6, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., at McLaren Hospitality House in Flint. Click here to download the save-the-date. For information, contact Susan Fantin (susan.fantin@comcast.net).
• The Colorado ACDIS chapter meets Thursday, October 11, 3:30-6 p.m., at UCHealth Anschutz Medical campus, Anschutz inpatient pavilion 2, in Aurora. The speaker will present 4:15-5:30 p.m. For information, contact Diane Kohler (dianekohler@centura.org).
• The Westchester/Hudson Valley ACDIS chapter meets Friday, October 11, 2-4 p.m. at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco. For information, contact Kerry Seekircher (kseekircher@northwell.edu).
• The Massachusetts ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, October 17, 1-4 p.m., at Care New England, Kent Hospital in Warwick, Rhode Island. For information, contact Joyce Williams (JWilliams@Lifespan.org).
• The Maryland ACDIS chapter meets Friday, October 19, 12-2 p.m., at the Maryland Hospital Association in Elkridge. For information, contact Candace Blankenship (cblanke4@jhmi.edu).
• The California ACDIS chapter meets for their fourth annual conference on Friday, October 19, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the San Diego Liberty Station Conference Center. Click here to download the save-the-date flyer. For information, contact Rani Stoddard (stoddarddrv@henrymayo.com).
• The Oregon ACDIS chapter meets Friday, October 19, 7:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at St. Charles Medical Center, conference rooms A & B, in Bend. Click here to download the chapter newsletter, which includes the details of the event and registration form. For information, contact Linda Dawson (linda.dawson@providence.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).
• The Alabama ACDIS chapter meets on Friday, October 26, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Brookwood Baptist Health-Shelby in Alabaster. For information, contact Jeff Morris (jwmorris@health.southalabama.edu), Lauren Shivers (lauren.shivers@childrensal.org), and Marquetta Barron (mothompson@uabmc.edu).

Save-the-date:

• The Suffolk County Long Island ACDIS chapter meets Monday, December 3, 9:30-11:30 a.m., at Stony Brook University Hospital in Stony Brook. For information, contact the chapter leadership team (scacdis@gmail.com).