The New Jersey Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association will become the primary source for membership professional development needs by providing high quality, cost effective, educational, informational and career development services. In this manner, the Chapter will meet the needs and expectations of all customers of its available services.
- The Chapter will continue to reach out to local colleges to develop joint ventures to provide education in healthcare finance and managed care. These programs will be offered to other HFMA Chapters to assist our fellow Chapters in providing this valuable educational tool to their members.
- Using member need and expectation surveys, develop and implement innovative, timely and cost effective educational programs. The Chapter’s objective will be to provide a minimum of one Annual Institute with two days of programming. We will also provide four quarterly membership sessions and five or six educational sessions devoted to specific technical topics. Continue to improve all educational programming. The Chapter will focus on improved faculty evaluations, program agendas and support services.
- Develop educational programs in coordination with other organizations, such as MGMA and TIPAAA.
- To further enhance the educational opportunities of our members and their dependents, we will continue to offer college level scholarships, should the budget permit. The Scholarship Committee will review all scholarship applications and make recommendations to the full Board for approval should the Board elect to continue the scholarships.
- The Chapter will continue to sponsor the attendance of all Chapter Officers and Chairpersons of the Publication and Membership Services committees at the annual Leadership Training Conference conducted by National HFMA. In this way we will maintain a well-educated, cohesive leadership team that will meet the expectations of our new members.
- The Chapter will continue to sponsor the attendance of the President and President-Elect at the annual Fall President’s Meeting to better communicate the specific needs and requirements of our members to the national board.
- The Chapter will continue to sponsor the attendance of the Past President, President and President-Elect at the annual Chapter President’s meeting at the Annual National Institute.
- The Chapter will endeavor to expand its focus from hospital finance to broader healthcare areas, including managed care, planning, integrated healthcare delivery systems, primary care delivery systems, continuing care centers, medical group practice management and alternative delivery systems.
- The Chapter will hold its educational programs at central locations in the state to meet the needs of its members.
- The Chapter will endeavor to keep our members educated about, and aware of, their corporate compliance responsibilities in order to protect them and their organizations.
DIRECTORY
Continue the high quality standard of the New Jersey Chapter membership directory.
SOCIAL
The New Jersey Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association will broaden its current focus to provide healthcare professionals with opportunities to socialize and network with their peers in a non-work related environment. Request the Social Committee to:
- Determine membership expectations.
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- Develop a concise listing of goals and objectives. Identify the social activities for the upcoming Chapter year, including our highly successful golf outing, considered by many to be the best healthcare outing.
- Develop a program to effectively encourage Chapter members to participate in Chapter social activities.
- Honor our members’ achievements and support of the HFMA.
ADVOCACY
Continue the New Jersey Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s advocacy efforts representing our membership to regulators and elected officials.
- Develop strong positions relative to state and national healthcare reform issues and regulatory changes.
- Participate in pro-action activities sponsored by National HFMA.
- Coordinate lobbying efforts with other healthcare associations.
QUALITY OF SERVICE
NEWSMAGAZINE
The New Jersey Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association will timely communicate Chapter activities, industry issues and developments and relevant original articles.
- Publish at least four FOCUS newsmagazines a year.
- Develop and implement appropriate technologies that improve the timeliness of information gathering and dissemination to members including the potential use of non-print media.
- Explore the potential use of state-of-the-art technologies to quickly disseminate information of importance to the membership.
- Explore the use of HFMA Net and its web page to expand information flow with HFMA National.
- Promote the use of the New Jersey Chapter Web Site
EDUCATION SESSIONS
Expand educational offerings for our members:
- The Education Committee will review the education schedules, agendas and attendance for the past two Chapter years. The committee will use this data to develop methods to improve overall attendance at each education session. The committee will review time, location and format in addition to the subject matter to determine their effect, if any, on attendance.
- The Education Committee will establish a schedule of education sessions at each Chapter year and estimate target attendance goals for each session.
- The committee will submit the education schedule for publication in each issue of the FOCUS newsmagazine and all other New Jersey Chapter publication vehicles.
- The Education Committee will develop a process to facilitate the timely mailing of education session notices and registration of participants.
ANNUAL INSTITUTE
- Improve Annual Institute attendance.
- Study and determine the root causes of attendance fluctuations through review of membership surveys and program evaluations. The committee should review changes in membership attendance patterns to understand member decisions not to attend the Institute or reduction in member attendance from specific organizations.
- Critically evaluate Institute program content to ensure that the program content meets the needs of the membership and contains substance.
- Continue to invest in obtaining the highest quality speakers and ensure that Institute programming truly meets the needs of the New Jersey Chapter membership.
- Focus on hospital and healthcare system attendance as a core to other organizations attending
CHAPTER GROWTH
The New Jersey Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association will target an increase of approximately two percent in its current membership of 1,030. The Chapter will strive for continued growth of membership participation in Chapter activities and committees
- The Board of Directors of the New Jersey Chapter has adopted an open participation policy for committee membership. The Board encourages as many members as wish to join a committee to participate. The Board opened all committee meetings to the entire membership, with the exception of the Executive Committee of the Board, Nominating Committee, Auditing Committee, and Strategic Planning Committee.
- The Membership Committee will determine the percentage of members actively participating on one or more Chapter committees. The Chapter will utilize this data as a base line from which member participation growth may be measured.
- Facilitate the active participation of new members on HFMA committees by:
- Publishing New Jersey Chapter committee meeting dates and locations in the Chapter newsmagazine.
- Encouraging committee chairpersons to open committee membership to all interested members.
- Promoting committee activities through a special orientation to all new members discussing committee activities and the benefits of membership.
- Development of a Board mentoring program for all new members.
- The New Jersey Chapter will continue to reach out to non-traditional groups for membership in the HFMA. The Membership Committee will target industry groups that represent membership potential.
PLANNING AND DATA GATHERING PROCESS
The planning and data gathering process to develop the plan, assess member needs and determine Chapter strengths and weaknesses consisted of:
- Written membership survey.
- Committee chairpersons’ survey.
- Board of Directors’ annual planning meeting.
- Annual Institute evaluations.
- Quarterly meeting evaluations.