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Board Meeting Minutes March 5, 2024

MOKSACVPR Board Meeting

March 5, 2024

Attendees: 

  • Present: Karen Ashworth, Kelly Barnes, Carolyn Beard, Amy Choitz, Stephanie Gerlach, Tiffanie Holman, Tedd, Walsh, Tricia Walsh

Proceedings:

  • Meeting called to order at 0700 by Tricia Walsh
  • February board and strategic meeting minutes sent via email. Motion made by Amy Choitz to approve as written. Carolyn Beard seconded. Approved unanimously. 

New Business:

Committee Reports:

  • Treasurer’s Report–Amy Choitz
    • Transactions reviewed.
      • Checking:
        • Incoming: Registrations, Vendor payments
        • Outgoing: Lane’s fees, Clariant, Auth.net, Amy hotel (strategic meeting), American Holistic Nursing (CEU), AACVPR (CEU), DoorDash (strategic meeting), Amazon (bags, conference supplies).
      • Savings: No debits. Interest credit.
  • 2021 IRS Form
    • Was filed but did not go through. Will need to complete paperwork by March 20.
    • 2025 Treasurer position
      • Kelly Barnes will be training with Amy to take over in 2025 after conference. 
  • Education—Karen Ashworth
    • 2024 Conference: (Refer to conference working spreadsheet)
      • Vendors
        • Paid: Beef Council, LSI, Cardioline, Pritikin (mailed)
  • Speakers
  • Upload / Access speaker bios to “Spring Conference” in google drive.
  • CEUs
  • Holistic Nursing and AACVPR applications have been submitted.
  • Giveaways
    • Bags have been ordered.
    • Give away 2025 MOKS conference registration.
  • Registration
    • 102 registered
    • Add checkbox to registration form for KS nurses.
  • Standards and Issues—Sonny McNeilis 
  • Day on the Hill, March 4-5, 2024.
  • Update 3/4/24: Sonny said she and Sean have met with 3 senate offices this morning and working on 3 representatives this afternoon. AACVPR meets this evening for the briefing. She has a total of 11 meetings for KS and MO out of 16 legislators. 
  • Current Bills
    • H.R. 955 (Sustaining Outpatient Services) has 18 cosponsors.
    • H.R. 1406 (Sustainable CR in home) has 47 cosponsors.
  • Communications—Stephanie Gerlach
    • Will send another web blast after next meeting.
    • Amy will promote registration at her meeting today.
    • Tedd will help filter emails thru Gmail account.
  • Certification—Carolyn Beard
    • 586 applications submitted; review starts Thursday.
    • Sandy sat in on meeting yesterday. She is looking into process to apply.
  • Value Based Care—Tedd Walsh
    • No updates

Old Business:

  • Strategic meeting—February 23, 2024 at St. Joseph Medical Center Rose Room 11am-4pm
    • Revisions have been made to bylaws, as discussed in meeting. Table approval until April meeting.
    • Strategic statement has been added to website.
      • MOKSACVPR will continue to provide high quality, evidenced based education to the cardiopulmonary rehab community in KS and MO in order for these programs to continue to provide the best care to their consumers. We will continue to pursue legislative processes to ensure program stability. We will continue to collaborate with our neighboring programs for better patient outcomes, self-management of chronic disease conditions, and habits of health.

Board meeting:  TBD

Education meeting:  March 19, 2024 at 0700

Minutes submitted by Tiffanie Holman