December 29, 2008   Hi Fellow GNHAMA Members!  I hope you all had a safe and warm holiday!    My year as President-Elect just flew by!  As you know our President resigned quite some time ago, so we had plenty to do.  As your new President I am looking forward to a great year ahead for our Association.  We had a great Fall Conference this year at the Monarch Hotel, with a  record number of attendees  and some really great speakers.  I appreciate your feedback from the surveys, it will be invaluable in planning for our next Fall Conference.  While our attendance was great; we did hear loud and clear from the majority of you that you really liked a “get away”, so we are currently looking for hotels at the beach that can accommodate our group.  We have finalized the sites for our quarterly workshops and the dates and locations are listed on the GNHAMA website.  These workshops provide excellent educational and networking opportunities for our membership.  Every quarter a hospital provides the site and the speakers.  GNHAMA pays $7.00 per attendee for food, so our members get to attend the quarterly workshops free of charge! Please think about hosting a workshop at your facility in 2010 and plan on attending the workshops this year and bring a friend!   

I was really excited this year when we asked for nominations for officers; we had a huge response and we really appreciate your interest.  It takes motivated members to assure that GNHAMA remains an active association. You can all help by getting the word out about GNHAMA and by inviting your colleagues to our workshops.  

The GNHAMA Board will be working on several projects this year.  We will be updating our website and trying to get it set up so that we can utilize it more as a list-serve so that we can have interactive conversations.  We will be revising/updating our bylaws and updating our contact lists, and of course, planning the Fall Conference.   

We have a busy year ahead and I look forward to serving as your President. I hope to see each of you at our quarterly workshops!  We will be sending more information about dates and location for our Fall Conference soon, so keep checking out our website.  

I appreciate your feedback, so please do not hesitate to call me at any time.

See you soon!

Bernie Andreotti, RHIT, CHAM
President, GNHAMA
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd
Portland, Or    97239   (503)494-8769

P.S.  If you have ideas or suggestions for speakers for the October 2009 Conference, please let me know.  Thanks!!