Message from the President:
I would like to extend a very warm welcome to you from the Wisconsin Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (i.e., HFMA). I am very excited and honored to serve as your Wisconsin Chapter President for the 2017 – 2018 year. We have an amazing Board of Directors and Committee Chairs / Co-Chairs for this upcoming year. In addition, we are planning a Chapter year which will be rich in education, networking, and professional development! Your Board of Directors has been working on our 2017 – 2018 strategic plan since mid-March. Our strategic plan includes initiatives related to requesting feedback from our providers via a survey, re-structuring our Communications functions and committees, development of a Healthcare Finance 101 all-day event for those new leaders in healthcare, an ambassador program, and expanding our networking events. There are National HFMA strategic initiatives we are also working on. In addition, we have started the journey toward developing a more robust Succession Planning process. Even with all of our efforts on our strategic initiatives to move our WI Chapter forward, we promise to you, our members, that we will deliver high-quality healthcare educational, professional development, and networking opportunities. Since our Strategic Planning retreat in March, I am pleased to provide an update on our progress. First, I am excited to announce that we have a new Communications Chair, Bruce Lorenz. Bruce will create a structure under Communications where there is consistency and coordination between our different medias, including website, mobile apps, Twitter, Facebook, and our “newsletter blog”. In addition, we have conducted our provider member survey. I would like to thank all provider members, who took their time to complete the survey and to provide comments. We found the feedback to be invaluable! There were interesting insights and also some of the results confirmed what we had thought. This is important so we can continue to align our strategic initiatives with the interests and needs of our members. All of our other initiatives continue to move forward. The Chapter is also busy planning the Fall Conference, the Women in Healthcare Conference, the MEGA Conference, and next fall’s 2018 Region 7 Conference. We are just beginning some of the planning for the Annual Spring Conference. Our networking events are being planned, too. National HFMA continues to move forward with their Chapters 2.0 initiative. This is an initiative that will align HFMA with the many changes that are occurring in healthcare today. We started to see some of those changes at ANI last June. Also, HFMA will be moving all of the Chapters to one event registration system over the next eighteen months…so more to come on this!! This initiative will provide much needed information for HFMA to understand their members’ needs and interests even more. As I close, I hope all of you have been having a wonderful summer. It’s hard to believe we have had the first Green Bay Packer exhibition game of the season! However, this means that our Fall Conference is “right around the corner”! I am looking forward to seeing many of you in Madison at the Fall Conference – and at many of our events during this upcoming Chapter year! Best regards,
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Events
HFMA Wisconsin Chapter offers onsite Conferences, Regional Events and Webinars
Membership
Health care is undergoing profound changes around quality and cost effectiveness. Join the premier membership organization for healthcare financial management executives and leaders. With more than 600 members in Wisconsin and more than 40,000 national members.
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Platinum Sponsors
Thank you to our 2017-2018 Platinum Sponsors
Certification
Your Certification Committee has retooled the training and educational programs for the CHFP Exam to make it accessible, meaningful and almost free! Accelerate your career with expertise and credentials that are relevant to hospitals, medical groups, vendors, advisors and colleagues.
HFMA’s The Business of Health Care presents the comprehensive analysis of today’s healthcare environment and provides a broad overview of the shift in healthcare service delivery and evolving payment models. The course offers participants the unique opportunity to expand their breadth of industry understanding and sharpen their ability to engage in healthcare business issues. NOW is the time to take advantage of this opportunity and become certified! The Chapter is offering significant financial support in 2017 so why wait to “Do For Yourself”? Your Certification Committee Co-Chairs, Alan Mendeloff & Matt Clark |
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August 2017
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