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Council Organization:
Expectations
Policies
Councilor Briefing Powerpoint
Chapter Management:
Synopsis: VC-ACC operated for several years with no reserves and at the end of the fiscal year found itself unable to pay management expenses. Leadership put in place new management and drafted a revenue plan. Management provided consistent reports and updates on the situation as well as tracking expenses very closely.
Newsletter
OR January 2009 Newsletter.doc
Alan Morasch, Oregeon Chapter (alan@cardiologyinoregon.org)
Chapter Meeting
Resource on educational symposium from working with the hotel to CME's to funding.
Carolyn Kinney, Rhode Island Chapter (ckinney@riacc.org)
General Resource
Hank Holderfield, Georgia Chapter (Hholderfield@pami.org)
Quality:
Door to Balloon (D2B)
Synopsis: VC-ACC signed up all 32 hospitals in the state for the D2B initiative within weeks of the launch of the project. Follow up conference calls and one-on-one meetings ensured all participants were active in the program.
Regional STEMI Care
Synopsis: The VC-ACC has joined with other stakeholders to form the “Virginia Heart Attack Coalition.” This new initiative hopes to speed transfer times and overall times to reperfusion for all STEMI patients. This broad-based statewide coalition is comprised the American Heart Association (and its Mission: Lifeline initiative), the EMS community, the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and many other organizations that are committed to enhancing the care of heart attack patients.
Membership:
FIT Meetings
Contact: William G. Bowen (wgbowen@hotmail.com)
Synopsis: The Missouri Chapter has been active in setting up yearly meetings for the FIT's. We have 4 medical
schools in Missouri and have involved a cardiology fellow from each institution with planning our meetings
so topics that are timely to the fellows are presented. We have had active participation form the program
directors of each cardiac program intimately involved in the programs. We have had attorneys talking about
malpractice issures, attorneys talking on signing contracts for practice and had a forum with cardiologists from different
types of cardiology practice for panel discussion for our fellows in Missouri. We have had a poster competition
with cash awards for the best posters to spur interest in academic achievement. We have also set up a Missouri
ACC Foundation and been able to raise $88,000 in the last 2 years to support programs. This gives us latitude to have
financial solvency to take on programs that would not be possible though dues and usual support channels.