The North Carolina Association of Healthcare Risk Managers (NC ASHRM) is a professional organization for Healthcare Risk Managers. We are affiliated with the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management. Organized in 1980, our members actively seek to promote safe patient care and continually redesign our processes to protect healthcare assets for a sustainable healthcare future. We offer education, networking and advocacy for Healthcare Risk Managers. Please view our NC ASHRM Brochure.

August Complimentary Webinar

The NC ASHRM Board hopes that you are doing well during this time of pandemic.  Until we can come together again at conference, we are continuing to work with our generous sponsors to provide complimentary educational opportunities via webinars to our members. We hope that this will assist you in meeting your continuing education needs.

Our next complimentary webinar offering will be in August.  Our speaker will be Pankaj “PK” Shere, who is the Managing Partner at Huff Powell Bailey’s Raleigh office.  We hope you will be able to join us. Please find the details, including registration information, below:

Title of Event:  Damages Mitigation in High Exposure Cases

Description:  Teach hospital risk managers and claims personnel on effective damages mitigation techniques and evaluation strategies for economic and non-economic damages from pre-suit through trial

Date:  August 11, 2020 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT

Here is the registration link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrcuGqqzIjHNKdbjjkr2X3QfXyaamu96dN

(After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.)

This meeting has been approved for a total of 1.0 contact hours of Continuing Education Credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow) and towards CPHRM renewal. 

For questions or to suggest potential webinar speakers or topics, please contact:

Katrina Jackson, Program Chair and President Elect Katrina.Jackson@conehealth.com

Janna Bennett, Professional Development Chair and NC ASHRM Board Member Janna.bennett@cna.com

Message from the President Elect and Past President

June 1, 2020

Dear NCASHRM Members:

On behalf of the NCASHRM Board of Directors, I hope that each of you are safe and healthy as we continue to face this public health crisis together. Our healthcare systems have been tested in recent months by the Covid-19 crisis. It has created challenges for both the human and financial resources of our healthcare industry. NCASHRM remains committed to the safety of our membership and our organization’s mission “to provide health care risk managers with the resources, knowledge and support to strategically and broadly manage risk, reduce uncertainty, add value, and advance the safe practice of healthcare”. The impact of Covid-19 on our ability to attend in-person conferences through the remainder of the year, is anticipated to impact our ability to support a Fall conference. Based on the contractual considerations of planning such a large event, our Board is obligated to make an early determination regarding cancellation in order to avoid the incurrence of financial penalties from our vendors. As stewards of our mission and in consideration of our fiscal responsibility to our membership and sponsors, we have made the decision to cancel our Fall conference.

In order to support our mission as a resource to our membership, the Professional Development Committee and Program Committee are developing a series of one hour webinars, to provide continued educational support during this difficult time. With the support of our sponsors and members, registration fees will be waived for the webinars. ASHRM credits are being sought for each webinar in the series. It is our intent to provide one hour of educational credit each month June-November, for our members. While we will miss seeing each of you in the Fall. We hope that this provides some support to our Chapter during these difficult times. We appreciate the continued support of our sponsors and their partnership in providing these opportunities to you. As the webinars become available the invite to participate will be emailed to the membership and also posted on our website at:  www.nc-ashrm.org/education-events/.

For questions regarding these education opportunities, or to suggest potential webinar speakers or topics, please contact: Katrina Jackson, Program Chair and President Elect (Katrina.Jackson@conehealth.com) or Janna Bennett, Professional Development Chair and NCASHRM Board Member (Janna.bennett@cna.com).

Best regards,

Sheila Elliott, President, NCASHRM

Gwen Stokes, Immediate-Past President, NCASHRM

Website Upgrade

NC ASHRM's website has been updated effective January 3, 2020. In order to log into the Members Area of the website, you will need to be a member in good standing (membership expires December 31, 2020). You will need to create a new password for yourself.

To do that:

• In the upper right-hand corner, click on Member Log In.
• In the screen that opens, click on Forgot Your Password and enter your email address.
• Click on Get New Password.
• You will receive an email with a link to reset your password.

Going forward you will be able to reset your own password instead of having to contact Membership Support.

Diane Hoefer
IT Committee Chair