Joint Meeting with HFMA in St.Louis

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The St. Louis LPC’s annual joint program with HFMA is on August 20 from 11:30 to 4 pm.  It is at the same location as last year, St. Charles Convention Center.  All MHEG and HFMA members are welcome.  The price is $50 for both members and non members with full time students receiving a discounted rate of $25.  The topic this year is The Future of Healthcare Financing.  A Pay for Performance Executive Panel Discussion.  As in past years, this program is worth 1.5 ACHE Category I credits.  Panel members are:  Bill De Marco, CMC; Jan McNeilly, FACHE; Louise Probst, MBA with Jerrie Wieth, MBA, FHFMA as the moderator.  E-mails with a brochure will be sent shortly.  You may also contact metroheg@qabs.com or administrator@moheg.org to register today for this program.

Enhance Your Career Development

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The Missouri Healthcare Executives Group (MOHEG) is dedicated to providing educational programs and opportunities to enhance your career development. To realize this mission MOHEG is excited to offer three new opportunities for your career development:

  • Participate as a member of the newly formed Progamming Sub-Committee;

  • Moderate an educational program topic;

  • Participate as a panel member on a program topic.

MOHEG has formed a Programming Sub-Committee and is seeking members to volunteer to serve on this committee for the upcoming 2009 program year. This is an inter-disciplinary committee comprised of healthcare managers from a variety of roles and healthcare organizations as well as representatives from Saint Louis University School of Public Health and Washington University Olin School of Business. This committee has two primary responsibilities:

  • Develop the annual educational program curriculum;

  • Assist the program co-chairs in recruiting qualified moderators and panelists for the program curriculum.

This is an excellent opportunity for professionals interested in contributing to the educational agenda and delivery of superlative educational programs to your colleagues. Furthermore, participation on this committee is eligible for ACHE’s Recognition Program points.

 

If you are interested in being a member of the 2009 Programming Sub-Committee (August 2008 – July 2009) please send an email to Missouri HEG [metroheg@qabs.com]with the subject line “MOHEG 2009 Program Sub-Committee”:-and provide the following information by July 11th:

  • Name

  • Educational degrees
  • Title
  • Organization
  • Telephone Number

Being a moderator of an educational topic is an outstanding opportunity for professionals interested in demonstrating and sharing their knowledge and accomplishments with their contemporaries. The moderator develops and presents a 15-30 minute introduction on the topic. Subsequently, the moderator fields questions from the audience and engages the panelists in this open discussion. Moderating an educational program is also eligible for ACHE’s Recognition Program points.

 

If you are interested in moderating an educational program please send an email to Missouri HEG [metroheg@qabs.com] with “Moderator” in the subject line and provide the following information:

  • Name

  • Educational degrees

  • Title

  • Organization

  • Telephone number

  • Program topic and brief description of the topic.

Serving as a panelist on an educational topic is an exceptional opportunity to demonstrate your expertise and share your knowledge of the topic with your peers. Participating as a panelist in an educational program is also eligible for ACHE’s Recognition Program points.  If you are interested in serving as a panelist please send an email to Missouri HEG [metroheg@qabs.com]with the subject line “Panelist” and the following information:

  • Name

  • Educational degrees

  • Title

  • Organization

  • Telephone number

  • Program topics you are interested in with a brief description of your expertise or accomplishment in the topic.

Each of these opportunities will enhance your networking with other healthcare professionals and will contribute to expanding your knowledge. And we can have some fun while we’re at it. The MOHEG Board is genuinely dedicated to your continued professional education and we look forward to working with you to deliver superlative educational programs to our members.

Chapter Award Recipients from ACHE

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The following Missouri Healthcare Executives received service awards from ACHE: 

  • member service awards to:  Tom Gregory of Stamp and Chase and Susan Cejka  of Grant and Cooper Associates
  • fellow service awards to:  James Ray, Robert Moore of Northeast Regional Medical Center, Alan Freeman of Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Center, Steve Barney of SSM Health Care, Connie Evashwick, Robert Copeland, JR of McCune-Brooks Regional Hospital, Thomas Spindler and Gary Olson of St. Luke’s Hospital
  • exemplary service award to:  Bill Schoenhard of SSM Health Care.

Student Leaders Receive Scholarships

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Students Kristen Jones of Washington University and Eric Datko of St. Louis University each received a scholarship for free tuition at Congress this year. 

Sandhya Vollala Receives ACHE Award

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 Sandhya Vollala received the early career healthcare executive award from ACHE.  The award was presented by Gary Olsen, FACHE, ACHE Missouri Regent during the annual convention of the Missouri Hospital Association.  Ms. Vollala, FACHE, is the Director of Performance Improvement at the Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis where she works to improve operational as well as clinical processes at the hospital.  She has a master’s degree from Washington University and has worked for universities as well as Ascension Health and SSM Health Care. 

In addition to being a Fellow in ACHE, she is a member of several professional affiliations, has served as a judge for the Missouri Quality Award Program and is involved in a number of volunteer activities including the Children’s Hospital in St.Louis.

ACHE Educational Opportunities

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Don’t miss out on upcoming ACHE Seminars. Clusters especially are a great place to earn Category I credits towards certification. Seminars do sell out, so register early to reserve a spot.

ACHE also offers on-line seminars. For example, Strategic Planning from Formulation to Action is coming up April 30 – June 11. Its the next best thing to being there.

Southeast Missouri LPC Hosted Statewide Webinar

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On February 28, the Southeast Missouri Local  Program Council, in conjunction with the Missouri Hospital Association, hosted a statewide webinar.  Dwight Fine of the Missouri Hospital Association spoke on the new “Insure Missouri” policy initiative which would change the face of Medicaid in Missouri.  It was an informative program on a timely topic.  There were 27 different sites that joined the conference call.  Congratulations to the SELPC for their first successful program!