Morning Concurrent Sessions III
8:00 - 9:30a
2301 - 2311

Morning sessions include topics from Heart Failure, One-Day Stays, and Value-Based Purchasing to Substance Abuse & TBI.

After your session, be sure to visit the CM Expo before it ends at noon today.

Click here for a complete schedule of events for Friday, June 17

• CMSA President Gavel Exchange from Outgoing to Incoming President
  
  
• Political Outlook: A Comprehensive Picture of the 2010 Midterm Elections & What's Going on in Washington - Donna Brazile

Be part of the history of CMSA as outgoing President Teri Treiger, RN-C, MA, CCM, CCP presents President-Elect Mary Beth Newman, MSN, RN-BC, A-CCC, CMAC, CCP, MEP, CCM with the gavel and wishes her well in her 2011-2012 Presidential term.

Hear their thoughts about what it means to hold this important office in the Case Management Society of America.

Last, but never least, she is a native of New Orleans.

Aside from working for the full recovery of her beloved New Orleans, Ms. Brazile’s passion is encouraging young people to vote, to work within the system to strengthen it, and to run for public office.

A New Orleans native, Ms. Brazile began her political career at the age of nine when she worked to elect a City Council candidate who had promised to build a playground in her neighborhood; the candidate won, the swing sets were installed, and a lifelong passion for political progress was ignited. Four decades and innumerable state and local campaigns later, Ms. Brazile has worked on every presidential campaign from 1976 through 2000, when she served as campaign manager for former Vice President Al Gore, becoming the first African-American woman to manage a presidential campaign.

Author of the best-selling memoir "Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics," Ms. Brazile is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, a syndicated newspaper columnist for United Media, a columnist for "Ms. Magazine," and "O, the Oprah Magazine," an on-air contributor to CNN, and ABC, where she regularly appears on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."

In August 2009, "O, The Oprah Magazine" chose Ms. Brazile as one of its 20 "remarkable visionaries" for the magazine’s first-ever O Power List. In addition, she was named among the 100 Most Powerful Women by the "Washingtonian" magazine, Top 50 Women in America by "Essence" magazine, and received the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s highest award for political achievement.

A former member of the board of directors of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, responsible for leading the state’s rebuilding process in the aftermath of two catastrophic hurricanes, Ms. Brazile is the proud recipient of honorary doctorate degrees from Louisiana State University and Xavier University of Louisiana, the only historically Black, Catholic institution of higher education in the United States.

Ms. Brazile is founder and managing director of Brazile & Associates LLC, a general consulting, grassroots advocacy, and training firm based in Washington, DC.

Established to pay special tribute to individuals and chapters who have demonstrated distinguished service to the case management profession, the CMSA national awards program culminates with a special presentation at CMSA's Annual Conference.

Read on to find out who received the CMOY, AOSE, CEIA, and other  2011 awards.

Margo MacRobert, RN, MS, CCM, NEA-BC

As director of 75 CMs with clients in 74 of the 77 counties of Oklahoma, she has developed evidence-based practice protocols for all high-volume patient diagnoses by employing such guidelines as those outlined CMSA’s Standards of Practice.

A prolific presenter, she has spoken at case management related conferences, summits, and meetings around the country, and the world, including Australia, Hong Kong, and Canada.

She has provided consulting services for places as far away as the King Fahad Medical City Hospital in Riyad, Saudi Arabia, and acted as medical/legal nurse expert to the United States Dept. of Justice, US Attorney’s Offices in OK and Colorado.

According to other colleagues, our CMOY exemplifies the "GOLD STANDARD" for case management leaders on both national and local levels. So, please join us in celebrating CMSA’s 2011 Case Manager of the Year award recipient - Margo MacRobert!

Carol A. Gleason, MM, RN, CRRN, CCM, LRC, BCPC

A graduate of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital School of Nursing and Cambridge College with a Masters in Management, Carol is an experienced case manager, who has enjoyed a nursing career practicing in multiple settings, including sub-acute, neurological/neuro-behavioral, worker’s compensation, and hospital rehabilitation. Her implementation of case management grand rounds has resulted in improved outcomes for patients in several of the facilities in which she has worked.

Recognized as a strong patient advocate, she is admired by coworkers for her ability to stay on top of even the smallest details about her patients and for her ability to remain abreast of changes in the healthcare industry, managed care, and Medicare/Medicaid regulations.

Currently, Carol works as a Float Care Coordinator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, where she steps into various practice settings within the hospital environment -- such as medicine, surgery, thoracics, cardiology and oncology, and including the management of Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation patients. Congratulations, Carol Gleason!

The Recipients of the 2011 CEIAs are as follows:

• Conference Program Award - Southern Ohio Valley CMSA Chapter
• Education Program Award - Alamo Chapter-Case Management Society of America
• Membership Development Program - Greater Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo Chapter of the Case Management Society of America
• Public Policy & Advocacy - CMSA NYC
• Award of Excellence in Print - Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter of the Case Management Society of America
• Best use of Technology - Case Management Society of New England

Click Here for information on how to nominate your Chapter for a CEIA next year.

You may download the entry forms here: CEIA Forms

Congratulations to the winners of the two newest CMSA Awards!

• Award for Case Management Research -
Michelle Hawkins, RN, MSN, MBA, DNP, CCM of Silver Spring, Maryland
Member of Chapter - CMSA of the Chesapeake

• Award for Case Management Practice Improvement -
Denise Fessler, RN, MSN, CMAC, of Harrisburg, Penn.
Member of Chapter - CMSA Mid-Atlantic Chapter

The Awards for Case Management Research & Performance Improvement awards have been established to:
1. Honor successful efforts to promote
evidence-based case management practice;
2. Acknowledge exceptional efforts to research best practice innovation that help quantify
and define outcomes in case management;
3. Encourage activities which aim to advance case management; and
4. Recognize innovation to foster evidence-based practice components defined by the CMSA Standards of Practice for Case Management.

Download the applications for these awards

Afternoon Concurrents IV
2:15 -3:45p
2401 -2 411

Patient-Centered Care, The Indigent Population: The Unique Roles of RN & SW Case Managers, and Parental Perspectives of Special Ed Services for Children with TBI are just a few of the intriguing afternoon session topics.

CMSA's 21st Annual Conference & Expo 2011 concludes with the ending of these sessions.

Thank you for attending, and we hope to see you in 2012 in San Francisco!

Plus, you'll want to partake of the tasty free brunch and all the fun that the last day of the 2011 Expo has to offer.

• Brunch will be served in the Hall.

• Poster Presentations (PP18 – PP35) are posted inside Expo Hall.
Must evaluate 15 for CEs.

• Exhibitor Prize Drawings

• Don’t forget to enter the $500 Cash Giveaways (2):

• Careminders Home Care - Booth #1708
• Aero National, Inc. - Booth #1022

sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC 
Booth #1713

The AFib Support Team presentation, sponsored by sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC, is intended to provide valuable insights on the need for comprehensive management and education about atrial fibrillation (AFib).

A primary goal of the AFib Support Team is to provide health care providers with the information and tools needed to improve their patients’ understanding of AFib as a serious and chronic disease.

In addition, strategies to improve outcomes through a productive patient dialogue are highlighted. This presentation is designed specifically for registered nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants who manage the treatment of patients with AFib.

It's your last chance this year to drop by the CMSA Booth in the Expo Hall during these times to take advantage of these state-of-the-art product presentations.

• Not a member, join today:  No time to join onsite? Be sure to visit http://www.cmsa.org to view all CMSA has to offer. Then go to www.cmsa.org/join for a list of benefits and to become a CMSA member. From networking and educational opportunities such as this conference, to local Chapter meetings, the online Educational Resource Library, and disease-specific CMAG workshop opportunities, CMSA has what you need to increase your contacts, improve your career, and inspire yourself.

• Don't miss outgoing President Teri Treiger's wrap-up article about the 2011 Conference & Expo she'll send out in this newsletter next week.
  
  
• Conference CE information
• Certifying Bodies :  The following is a list of Certifying Bodies from which CMSA typically solicits program approval (subject to change). Once the conference program has been finalized and submitted for approval to the Certifying Bodies, CMSA will release its "CE Recap Worksheet" which will identify the number of credits available for each conference session.

http://http://www.cmsa.org/Portals/0/pdf/Conference/2011/Attendees/CERECAP.pdf  

• Submit Your Evaluations Online to Earn Continuing Education Credits

Completion of your evaluations is due by September 30, 2011.

Program evaluation and continuing education credit requests are available online only at http://ceu.experient-inc.com/cms111/. Attendees can access the site from the onsite Evaluation Center, computers in the onsite Cyber Cafe, or any other Internet-enabled computer. The system requires your 2011 Conference Registration ID Number and your Last Name in order to access the session and overall conference evaluations.

• After initially entering the system, you will be asked to select which credentialing bodies or continuing education credit types for which you will be requesting CEs. If necessary, this can easily be modified later.
• Then, complete the evaluations for the sessions and any fee-based pre-conference workshops you may have attended.
• Once finished completing ALL of your evaluations for the entire conference offerings, you can proceed to print out your conference Continuing Education Certificate. We ask that you complete the Overall Conference Evaluation, allowing us to tailor the program contents in 2012
• Participants will be able to download their CME Certificate or Certificate of Participation immediately after submitting their evaluation.

Visit http://ceu.experient-inc.com/cms111 to complete your session evaluations.

Click here to visit the CMSA Conference CE information page

You may leave your heart in San Francisco in 2012, but you'll take away the experience of a lifetime!

Save the dates of June 19 - 22, 2012, for learning and fun at CMSA's 22nd Annual Conference & Expo.

It'll also be a great time to plan a few extra vacation days to tour Alcatraz, visit Chinatown, ride a cable car, travel Lombard (the "Crookedest" Street), take a trip to Fisherman's Wharf and Union Square, and so much more!

Check the CMSA website soon for further details about the 2012 Conference & Expo!

MEMBER DISCOUNT
And if you haven't joined CMSA yet, one of many member benefits is the $100 discount on the Annual Conference Registration price! CLICK HERE.

Hope to see you in "Frisco" in 2012!

Submit Your Evaluations Online to Earn Continuing Education Credits

• Program evaluation and continuing education credit requests are available online.

• Attendees can access the site from the onsite Evaluation Center, computers in the onsite Cyber Cafe, or any other Internet-enabled computer. The system requires your 2011 Conference Registration ID Number and your Last Name in order to access the session and overall conference evaluations.

• After initially entering the system, you will be asked to select which credentialing bodies or continuing education credit types for which you will be requesting CEs. If necessary, this can easily be modified later.

• Then, complete the evaluations for the sessions and any fee-based pre-conference workshops you may have attended.

• Once finished completing ALL of your evaluations for the entire conference offerings, you can proceed to print out your conference Continuing Education Certificate.

• We ask that you complete the Overall Conference Evaluation, allowing us to tailor the program contents in 2012.

Completion of your evaluations is due by September 30, 2011.

Participants will be able to download their CME Certificate or Certificate of Participation
immediately after submitting their evaluation.

Click Here to complete your session evaluations.

CMSA’s online Educational Resource Library (ERL) offers educational programs to case managers and allied health professionals serving the care management industry. Completely web-based to facilitate "anytime, anywhere" access to learning, the Library is a member benefit offering the following features and more:

• Over 80 clinical and 55 business courses in several media formats
• Comprehensive consumer resources
• Certification listings
• Masters Level educational links to universities
• Coursework tracking
• Ability to print CE certificates

Download the ERL Course Catalog HERE

Not a CMSA Member?
Become a CMSA Member and gain immediate access to the online Educational Resource Library. These courses are the tangible tools members can use to increase their strategic value to employers as well as patients and their families. Join here

NOTE: Post conference, the ERL, as members have come to know it, will undergo updates to a more advanced platform. This new opportunity for members and non-members to access courses and information will be available this summer. Watch CMSA's website and announcements for updates.

Check soon for information on submitting for the 2012 Conference.

CMSA's CFP Online Application information can be found here.

The 2012 CFP info is coming soon:

"The GPS for Quality Health Care"
October 9 - 15, 2011

This year's theme,"Case Management: The GPS for Quality HealthCare," reflects the ability of case managers to navigate and direct through the health care maze.

The 2011 CM Week theme also has a special significance. It was submitted by Brenda Kitchen, a member of CMSA’s Central Virginia Chapter, and selected as the winning entry in the 2011 CM Week Slogan Contest! And just as a compass or global positioning system (GPS) helps one locate a certain destination, Case Managers make navigating the often choppy waters of the health care continuum, easier, safer, and better!

Purchase handy National CM Week items like t-shirts, lapel pins, posters, and more at http://www.cmsa.org/cmweek  (watch for 2012 products to be posted soon) to help celebrate case managers and to shine the spotlight on this exciting and important industry.

Get your order in by September 15 and help get the word out that Case Management is: "The GPS for Quality Health Care."

• Celebrate Your Colleagues
• Recognize Your Boss
• Share with Your Co-Workers
• Use for CM Department Celebrations
• Donate to Chapter Meetings for Door Prizes
• Hold Prize Drawings
• Give as Client freebies
• and so much more!

With the help of CMSA's CareerCenter, employers and recruiters can access the most qualified talent pool with relevant work experience to fulfill staffing needs.

Whether you are looking at a new career path or searching for the right employee, CMSA's CareerCenter is a user-friendly service designed with case managers and their employers in mind.

Visit the CareerCenter website today!

Click here to view the best case management career resource, CMSA's CareerCenter.