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held via teleconference Present:
Steve Wood, Past Chairperson
Matthew Schweyer, Secretary/Treasurer
Bill Davidson, Board Member @ Large
Richard Sample, Program Committee Chairperson
Noel Jett, Awards Committee Chairperson Absent:
Stacy Kruckeberg, Board Member @ Large
August Executive Committee Meeting Minutes:
Secretary/Treasurer submitted to
minutes from our August meeting. ·
Motion
to have the minutes accepted as submitted. The
motion was accepted seconded and passed by voice vote. ·
Action
Item: Steve to post minutes on UHMS Associates Web site.
New Business:
Associates/ BNA MOA:
There has been early discussion
regarding a pre-course @ the 2006 ASM the BNA has a desire to conduct a one day
course on the “Management of the Critical Care Patient in the
Hyperbaric Environment.” Several
board members expressed
reservation for this concept for the following reasons: 1.
Would this type of pre-course draw
enough attendees to financially support itself as all pre-course must be self
supporting. 2.
Concern that there would not be
enough course content to fill up a one day program. 3.
Would there be adequate vendor
sponsorship to support a pre-course on this issue.
This is of significant importance to the Associates as this is our main
source of revenue @ ASM when they are held jointly with the UHMS. ·
Motion
to have a pre-course conjoint with the BNA with the following stipulation: that
half of the day would focus on critical care management and that the other half
of the day would focus on other issues TBD @ a later date.
Motion approved and passed by voice vote. ·
Action
Item: The Program Chair will confer with the BNA regarding the topic proposed
for the 2006 pre-course & also see if they would have interest in amending
the time allocated to the pre-course & consider another topic as a half day
pre-course option.
IV Pump Taskforce:
Bill Davidson reported that there was nothing new to report.
Dick Sample conveyed to the board
that the modified tubing presented @ the 2004 meeting is available through
NBS as they committed to the number of units required for production.
People in need of
this tubing should contact NBS regarding availability of tubing.
After the tubing is exhausted
through NBS it will be available through Hospira.
UHMS Executive Director Search:
Kaye conveyed to the board that there
is a process and search committee in place.
Of interest to the Associate
Board was the fact that the chairperson was not on the committee but that Dick
Clark who is an associate member but
has not been asked by the Associate Board to represent the masses appears to be
on the committee.
Kaye has e-mailed the UHMS executive director who stated he would
investigate and get back with Kaye which
has not occurred as of the date and time.
Web Site Design Update:
The chair thanked Steve for his
involvement with Marketnet and the work that has been done so
far. Steve briefed the board
on the quotation and service that Marketnet has provided.
Essentially the service provided by Marketnet will cosmetically update
the Associate webpage to be more in line with the UHMS website with the ability
to link to it for secure purposes (e.g. web register for courses, pay
dues etc.) Steve will still
control the content of the page. ·
Motion
to authorize Steve to proceed with Marketnet and cap our financial outlay at a
maximum of $3000.00. In the event
that it requires more than 3000.00 Steve will notify board of changes and cost
overruns that are associated with the webpage for financial consideration.
The motion was accepted, seconded and passed by voice vote.
2006 Annual Scientific Meeting:
The UHMS is including the Associates
program chair in all future site visits pertaining to ASM.
As the program chair has a scheduling conflict the chairperson will fill
in for the program chair on this visit.
The UHMS will be having two pre-course
and one post course at this year’s annual meeting.
Scholarship Fund:
The chairperson has been approached by
an individual in ·
Action
Item: Everyone will review the proposal (copies may be obtained from the
chairperson) & after review and discussion @ the next board meeting we will
decide how best to proceed with this issue.
Accredited Facility Membership:
A board member made available to all
other board members the letter that arose from a decision at the UHMS Board of Directors meeting held in
Note: Communication
will be directed to the healthcare
senior management not the
Medical Director of the facility to keep the leadership of the
organization current with
issues related to the practice of hyperbaric medicine.
Specifically the following concerns
were mentioned: ·
Communication
directly with the healthcares senior level management and not including the
Program Manager/ or Director in these communication has the ability to create an
adversarial relationship between the institutions mid-management and senior
management. ·
Reimbursement
issues: as the accreditation is hyperbaric specific what information besides
HCPCS code C-1300, revenue code 413, HCPCS codes 93922 & 93923 and
E& M codes associated with the visit as well as ICD-9 diagnosis codes that
support the procedures would the
board communicate to the senior level management? ·
Fiscal
Intermediary communication: will
these be geographic or regional specific? The
concern would be that a healthcare senior level management
in Georgia may see mention of an FI’s decision that impacts New York
and make a decision based on not necessarily correct information.
The board also has reservation of promising a quarterly edition of
Pressure electronically as it has generally
lagged behind by a couple of months and this has a potential impact on
reputation of the UHMS in the day of spit
polish image. ·
Action
Item: the Associates Chairperson will have a conversation with Tom Workman
regarding verbiage in the letter and report back to the Board on her findings.
2007 Annual Scientific Meeting
The board discussed the location of
the upcoming 40th meeting to be held in ·
Proximity from the continental ·
Program offering would we be able
to have a completed program with adequate abstracts submitted.
One option that was suggested was to meld the program in with the members
program which was not well received. Another
option was that if we started pushing the idea of ·
Action
Item: the chair person will communicate with Lisa Wasdin regarding the last
meeting that have been held outside of the USA specifically looking at the
meeting in Quebec City & the last meeting held in Hawaii.
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Action
Item: the chair will make mention of the 2007 ASM in her next issue of Pressure
with encouragement to all Associates to let either her or another board member
there desires to have our meeting jointly with the UHMS or consider other
options.
Quarterly Meeting
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