Local Chapter Events: Meetings for March and April

March 14, 2013

West Virginia: Meets on Wednesday, March 20, 2 p.m. at Charleston Area Medical Center to discuss Recovery Auditor trends and risk reduction, as well as value-based purchasing initiatives. For information contact Shelia Harrison by email at Sheila.Harrison@camc.org.

So. Nevada: Meets Wednesday, March 20, at 5:30 p.m., at Kindred Hospital Flamingo Campus in Las Vegas. For information, call Ailsa Kompare at 702-343-7232.

Tennessee: Meets Friday, March 22, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in Memphis. The agenda includes:

Quality care, documentation, and accurate coding
Defending your facility against Recovery Auditor requests
Emergency room CDI efforts
CDI from a physician’s perspective
Value-based purchasing and CDI
ICD-10 and its affect on CDI efforts

For information, contact Sherri Clark at sclark@mc.utmck.edu.

Central Indiana: Meets Wednesday, April 10. For information, contact Angie Green at Agreen3@ecommunity.com.

Northern Ohio: Meets Tuesday, April 16 at Cleveland Clinic. For information, contact Debroah Lee-Tyiska, RN, MA, CCM at tyiskad@ccf.org.

Central Illinois: Meets Thursday, April 18, 12:30-3:30 p.m., at St. Alexius Medical Center. For information, email Ellen Chang at Ellen.chang@alexian.net.

ACDIS NW (Oregon): Meets Friday, April 19, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center in Tualatin. Agenda includes:

CDI: ICD-10 and beyond
Webinar regarding latest ACDIS/AHIMA query guidances
Malnutrition and the ASPEN criteria
CDI and ICD-10

For information, email Eileen Pracz at pracze@ohsu.edu.

Virginia: The Virginia ACDIS meeting originally slated for January was postponed due to inclement weather and will be held on Saturday, April 27, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring a presentation by Robert Gold, MD. For information, email meeting host Vivian E. Gannon, at vivian.gannon@chesapeakeregional.com.

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