INSIDE - Health Care Compliance Association
INSIDE - Health Care Compliance Association
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“In the near future,<br />
we will begin the<br />
process of electing<br />
several members to<br />
the HCCA Board<br />
of Directors. I want<br />
to encourage those<br />
of you who have a<br />
commitment to<br />
HCCA’s long-term<br />
success to consider<br />
applying to serve on<br />
our Board, or, if you<br />
prefer, nominating<br />
someone else to<br />
serve.”<br />
Dear Fellow Members:<br />
ALAN YUSPEH<br />
HCCA President<br />
I am writing this as we have<br />
completed a fabulous Annual<br />
<strong>Compliance</strong> Institute in New<br />
Orleans. We had some 1,000 people<br />
in attendance, and everyone<br />
agreed that the quality of the<br />
program was exceptionally high.<br />
For those who attended, thank<br />
you for making this such a success.<br />
And for those who could not<br />
be with us this year, please try to<br />
come next spring. It is clear that<br />
if you can attend one national<br />
compliance meeting a year, this<br />
is the one to attend!<br />
I wanted to recognize the extraordinary<br />
job that was done by our<br />
Conference Program Chair, Dan<br />
Roach, the compliance officer for<br />
Catholic <strong>Health</strong>care West. Dan<br />
showed great vision in creating a<br />
program that had both depth and<br />
breadth. We should all be grateful<br />
to him for providing such an<br />
excellent educational opportunity.<br />
I want to also recognize the<br />
excellent support provided by<br />
Roy Snell, Erin O’Donnell,<br />
and the HCCA staff in making<br />
the conference run so<br />
smoothly.<br />
The other facet of this program<br />
about which I’m so excited is that it is truly a celebration<br />
of the constantly increasing professionalism of our work<br />
as health care compliance officers. Increasingly, as we get to<br />
know one another, these meetings are like a family reunion.<br />
They are a chance to network with our colleagues and to<br />
continue to professionalize the field of health care compliance.<br />
The next major HCCA program is our joint effort with the<br />
American <strong>Health</strong> Lawyers <strong>Association</strong> (AHLA) in late<br />
September. This promises to be an exceptional session as well.<br />
Please try to be there.<br />
Finally, in the near future, we will begin the process of electing<br />
several members to the HCCA Board of Directors. I want<br />
to encourage those of you who have a commitment to<br />
HCCA’s long-term success to consider applying to serve on<br />
our Board, or, if you prefer, nominating someone else to<br />
serve. We have an enormously qualified Board at this time,<br />
and we want to make certain that it remains strong and<br />
reflective of HCCA’s membership. ■<br />
Forget the HCCA password?<br />
Email HCCA with your password questions at<br />
info@hcca-info.org. Always check the bottom right<br />
corner on page 2 in <strong>Compliance</strong> Today.<br />
July 2003<br />
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HCCA’S<br />
HCCA exists to champion ethical<br />
practice and compliance standards<br />
MISSION in the health care community and<br />
to provide the necessary resources for compliance professionals and<br />
others who share these principles.<br />
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