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JOYCE NAKANO, CMA (AAMA)
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President’s Message #2
September 2023
Several months have passed since our Annual Meeting. CSMA is trying to keep the Society providing as many benefits as possible with the few volunteers we have.
This Officer attended the SW Regional. This regional remains strong and provided a hybrid/in-person conference. The President’s report on this conference has been posted on the website. Secretary Marquette was appointed to attend the conference with the president. This gives more exposure to developing leadership skills while also meeting leaders of other Societies. There were 12.5 CEUs offered. I believe all CEUs were in all categories. This officer talked with the Texas Society as well as most of the presenters to determine if they would be available for virtual sessions in California. The next SWR will be held in Oklahoma City. I do not recall them indicating the date but most SWR are held the third weekend in July. In 2025, the SWR is scheduled to be held in Utah. California will host the SWR in 2026 due to Arizona dissolving and turning in their charter. Arizona members are still invited to attend the SWR.
Although the date pending for California to host the SWR Conference is in 2026, CSMA is looking for suggestions on possible sites and venues. It is important that CSMA provides a safe venue for our SWR members so planning in advance may help. If you, as members of CSMA have ideas on where we might consider as a site, please let us know. We will be keeping a list to examine possible venues as the time nears. The site must be near an airport. Perhaps crime and social issues will be resolved by 2026 but thinking ahead will help us all be able to volunteer and work at this conference. It is a great opportunity for you to meet with our AAMA members in the Southwest and obtain CEUs.
This conference brought some sadness to all who attended. Ann Naegele, CMA (AAMA), past president of the Texas Society of Medical Assistants, past president and Life Member of AAMA passed away on Sunday, July 23 prior to our leaving. Our webmaster has posted a tribute to Ann on our website with permission of the Alabama Society who first posted it. I encourage you to read the information. Ann brought so many people together without judgment. She is someone who will be missed by all members of AAMA. Adding to this, there were other members who were having challenges with family members as well with some losing some and others challenged in the future.
September is the month of our AAMA National Conference in Florida. There is a hurricane around, but we have been assured that it will bypass Florida. The Delegates’ Packet has been reviewed by your delegates so we may determine the best pathway to vote. There is another bylaw to change our membership categories to allow “credentialed medical assistants” to become active members. These members are currently Associate Members, and the BOT is suggesting moving Associate members into Active status which will eventually give them rights to run for officer positions now only held by CMA (AAMA) members. They feel that membership will grow with this change, but this officer feels otherwise.
In this officer’s opinion, this passage of Bylaws #4 will greatly diminish all the work that was done to build the recognition of our profession that AAMA has accomplished, especially with the help of CEO Don Balasa who defends and explains the important role the CMA (AAMA) is to the health care team. To have our profession recognized by patients, employers, governmental agencies and other health care professionals, the CMA (AAMA) along with the programmatic programs under AMT RMA, required exposure of our standard of training as well as an externship and passing our certification test. Continuing education is a part of renewal to maintain this credential. Others do have a credential and their requirements for their credential but each person voting must decide for themselves whether those credentials equate to the CMA (AAMA) credential. We will keep you posted on the results of this bylaw’s proposal.
CSMA WILL BE HOSTING A CEU SESSION on October 21, 2023, Saturday, from 8:00 an PDT for 2 CG Units. CSMA has limited resources to plan, get approved and monitor the sessions so there will be fewer this year. CSMA will be offering a virtual CEU on “Refresh Your Mind-Mental Awareness.” The speaker is from Texas but originally from Sacramento. He is also a graduate with a comedy degree so we know you will enjoy this presentation. It has been approved for 2 CG CEUs and will be presented on Saturday, October 21, 2023, from 8-10 am PDT. Please plan on joining us for this enjoyable session. CSMA members will have a 2-week pre-registration window after which it will be open to all our AAMA members. There is NO FEE for this session. Because it is free, we ask that if you register and then cannot attend, you cancel the reservation to open it to others who might like to attend. The registration for CSMA members opens today and will end for pre-registration on October 2 to all AAMA Members. Registration will close October 14. Link to register is: https://forms.gle/jieGdXonKoL4FQZy9
CSMA delegates have held 4 sessions to go over the Delegates Packet of 190 pages. We will leave the end of this week for the Conference. Reports from all 4 delegates will be posted to the website within 30 days of the last day of the conference or by October 17.
One last item: If there are any CSMA members who do not wish to receive these email, if you will respond to me via email 2021CSMApresident@gmail.com we will remove your name from further contact by CSMA so we do not disturb you. You may write to have your name reinstalled if you wish to receive email communications from us.
Best wishes to you and please stay safe and healthy. You are the reason we do what we can do for you but appreciate any ideas or suggestions from you.
Joyce
CSMA President
President’s Message #1
May 2023
This officer hopes that we have found everyone healthy and safe. Unfortunately, we could not have an in-person meeting. We do need to get back to these so we can meet our members personally. Virtual is a way of communicating, but an in-person meeting is a way of meeting and getting to know our members. Every effort is being made to get back to an in-person meeting but with limited volunteers, it makes it more difficult.
As your president again, this is my first message to you. This year we held our Annual Meeting April 21-22, virtually. There were not a lot in attendance but we did finish our meeting in a timely manner on Saturday. Everyone voted on every officer report, committee report, bylaws, Standing Rules and other issues. Those who attended asked questions and made motions during the meeting. We had election of officers for the ensuing year: Both Vice President, Immediate Past President and Trustee will remain open unless the Executive Committee wishes to appoint to fill the Trustee or Immediate Past President positions. The Vice President and President positions must be elected.
Results of the election were as follows:
Secretary: Virginia Marquette, CMA (AAMA)
Treasurer/Assistant Secretary: Nancy Lizon, CMA (AAMA).
Kathy Ham, CMA (AAMA) will remain our Advisor.
Delegates: First and Second Delegates are mandated by the Bylaws. Since we do not have a Vice President, this position became open. CSMA has 4 delegate positons this year:
First Delegate: Joyce Nakano, CMA (AAMA)
Second Delegate: Virginia Marquette, CMA (AAMA)
Third Delegate: Nancy Lizon, CMA (AAMA)
Fourth Delegate: Ashlyn James CMA (AAMA)
No Alternate Delegates were elected. These Delegates will represent you at the Florida Conference, September 21-25, 2023, in Lake Buena Vista.
Nominating Committee:
Kathy Ham, CMA (AAMA)
Ashlyn James, CMA (AAMA).
Virginia Marquette, CMA (AAMA)
Cynthia Pilgrim, CMA (AAMA)
During the meeting, there were several items that were discussed with motions coming forward. The 2022 Minutes were returned to the Minutes Committee to correct errors in spelling and other items. All Bylaws were approved with one bylaws being amended before approval. You can read the bylaws on the website. The Standing Rules were approved as well as the budget for fiscal year 2023-24.
The General Assembly voted for no fees for virtual CEUs for the next two years. This will be a time for all of you to collect your CEUs for recertification at no cost to you. The General Assembly also voted to absorb the cost of in-person meetings for the next two years which will include the CEUs offered. This will be a time of celebration to get back together as a Society. You will only be responsible for your sleeping room fee. We will not have fees for one South Meeting and one North meeting.
Reminder of future events:
The following are events all our members can attend. The SWR, Houston Hobby Airport Double Tree Hotel, July 21-23 is our leadership conference with all members invited to attend. This is a time where leaders from all our 8 SWR states come together to be available for questions on leadership roles. Most flights we checked will not get you into Houston until the meeting has begun so you might need to make a room reservation for Thursday, July 20 if you cannot reach the hotel by noon. They are planning around 10 CEUs for the weekend. Registration will open June 1 for everyone.
AAMA’s 67th Annual Conference will be September 22-25 with most members from the western states coming in on Thursday, September 21 because of time zone issues. The Conference will be held at the Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista at Walt Disney Resort. You may register through CVENT and book your hotel at the same time.
CSMA is tentatively planning its meeting in 2024 the weekend of April 12-14, since Easter falls in March and several leaders usually have conflicting events for the following weekend. More information will be posted on the meeting plans in the next several months; however, we are leaning toward a virtual meeting again.
CSMA wishes to thank our outgoing officers, committee chairs and committee members for their dedication, commitment and work in 2022-23. Although this year we have fewer volunteers right now, we hope that we will gain some during the year to help us stabilize our Society. We look forward to working with our new incoming officers and leaders.
Lastly, CSMA is asking our members if they wish to continue to receive email from CSMA. We have had a few members ask that they not be sent emails from CSMA. If you do not wish to receive email about notifications of events, please respond to 2021csmapresident@gmail.com and we will remove you from our email list.We know your privacy is important to you so we will do this if you request it. To add you back to receiving notifications of events through emails, you will need to contact us at the above email address and ask to be added back.
Thank you to all of you for your trust and confidence in your leaders to sustain this great organization.
My best wishes to all our members to remain safe and healthy. We look forward to “good things” ahead.
Your leaders who currently serve you wish to thank our membership for their confidence and trust in the abilities as your leaders.
Joyce Nakano, CMA (AAMA)
CSMA President
September 2023
Several months have passed since our Annual Meeting. CSMA is trying to keep the Society providing as many benefits as possible with the few volunteers we have.
This Officer attended the SW Regional. This regional remains strong and provided a hybrid/in-person conference. The President’s report on this conference has been posted on the website. Secretary Marquette was appointed to attend the conference with the president. This gives more exposure to developing leadership skills while also meeting leaders of other Societies. There were 12.5 CEUs offered. I believe all CEUs were in all categories. This officer talked with the Texas Society as well as most of the presenters to determine if they would be available for virtual sessions in California. The next SWR will be held in Oklahoma City. I do not recall them indicating the date but most SWR are held the third weekend in July. In 2025, the SWR is scheduled to be held in Utah. California will host the SWR in 2026 due to Arizona dissolving and turning in their charter. Arizona members are still invited to attend the SWR.
Although the date pending for California to host the SWR Conference is in 2026, CSMA is looking for suggestions on possible sites and venues. It is important that CSMA provides a safe venue for our SWR members so planning in advance may help. If you, as members of CSMA have ideas on where we might consider as a site, please let us know. We will be keeping a list to examine possible venues as the time nears. The site must be near an airport. Perhaps crime and social issues will be resolved by 2026 but thinking ahead will help us all be able to volunteer and work at this conference. It is a great opportunity for you to meet with our AAMA members in the Southwest and obtain CEUs.
This conference brought some sadness to all who attended. Ann Naegele, CMA (AAMA), past president of the Texas Society of Medical Assistants, past president and Life Member of AAMA passed away on Sunday, July 23 prior to our leaving. Our webmaster has posted a tribute to Ann on our website with permission of the Alabama Society who first posted it. I encourage you to read the information. Ann brought so many people together without judgment. She is someone who will be missed by all members of AAMA. Adding to this, there were other members who were having challenges with family members as well with some losing some and others challenged in the future.
September is the month of our AAMA National Conference in Florida. There is a hurricane around, but we have been assured that it will bypass Florida. The Delegates’ Packet has been reviewed by your delegates so we may determine the best pathway to vote. There is another bylaw to change our membership categories to allow “credentialed medical assistants” to become active members. These members are currently Associate Members, and the BOT is suggesting moving Associate members into Active status which will eventually give them rights to run for officer positions now only held by CMA (AAMA) members. They feel that membership will grow with this change, but this officer feels otherwise.
In this officer’s opinion, this passage of Bylaws #4 will greatly diminish all the work that was done to build the recognition of our profession that AAMA has accomplished, especially with the help of CEO Don Balasa who defends and explains the important role the CMA (AAMA) is to the health care team. To have our profession recognized by patients, employers, governmental agencies and other health care professionals, the CMA (AAMA) along with the programmatic programs under AMT RMA, required exposure of our standard of training as well as an externship and passing our certification test. Continuing education is a part of renewal to maintain this credential. Others do have a credential and their requirements for their credential but each person voting must decide for themselves whether those credentials equate to the CMA (AAMA) credential. We will keep you posted on the results of this bylaw’s proposal.
CSMA WILL BE HOSTING A CEU SESSION on October 21, 2023, Saturday, from 8:00 an PDT for 2 CG Units. CSMA has limited resources to plan, get approved and monitor the sessions so there will be fewer this year. CSMA will be offering a virtual CEU on “Refresh Your Mind-Mental Awareness.” The speaker is from Texas but originally from Sacramento. He is also a graduate with a comedy degree so we know you will enjoy this presentation. It has been approved for 2 CG CEUs and will be presented on Saturday, October 21, 2023, from 8-10 am PDT. Please plan on joining us for this enjoyable session. CSMA members will have a 2-week pre-registration window after which it will be open to all our AAMA members. There is NO FEE for this session. Because it is free, we ask that if you register and then cannot attend, you cancel the reservation to open it to others who might like to attend. The registration for CSMA members opens today and will end for pre-registration on October 2 to all AAMA Members. Registration will close October 14. Link to register is: https://forms.gle/jieGdXonKoL4FQZy9
CSMA delegates have held 4 sessions to go over the Delegates Packet of 190 pages. We will leave the end of this week for the Conference. Reports from all 4 delegates will be posted to the website within 30 days of the last day of the conference or by October 17.
One last item: If there are any CSMA members who do not wish to receive these email, if you will respond to me via email 2021CSMApresident@gmail.com we will remove your name from further contact by CSMA so we do not disturb you. You may write to have your name reinstalled if you wish to receive email communications from us.
Best wishes to you and please stay safe and healthy. You are the reason we do what we can do for you but appreciate any ideas or suggestions from you.
Joyce
CSMA President
President’s Message #1
May 2023
This officer hopes that we have found everyone healthy and safe. Unfortunately, we could not have an in-person meeting. We do need to get back to these so we can meet our members personally. Virtual is a way of communicating, but an in-person meeting is a way of meeting and getting to know our members. Every effort is being made to get back to an in-person meeting but with limited volunteers, it makes it more difficult.
As your president again, this is my first message to you. This year we held our Annual Meeting April 21-22, virtually. There were not a lot in attendance but we did finish our meeting in a timely manner on Saturday. Everyone voted on every officer report, committee report, bylaws, Standing Rules and other issues. Those who attended asked questions and made motions during the meeting. We had election of officers for the ensuing year: Both Vice President, Immediate Past President and Trustee will remain open unless the Executive Committee wishes to appoint to fill the Trustee or Immediate Past President positions. The Vice President and President positions must be elected.
Results of the election were as follows:
Secretary: Virginia Marquette, CMA (AAMA)
Treasurer/Assistant Secretary: Nancy Lizon, CMA (AAMA).
Kathy Ham, CMA (AAMA) will remain our Advisor.
Delegates: First and Second Delegates are mandated by the Bylaws. Since we do not have a Vice President, this position became open. CSMA has 4 delegate positons this year:
First Delegate: Joyce Nakano, CMA (AAMA)
Second Delegate: Virginia Marquette, CMA (AAMA)
Third Delegate: Nancy Lizon, CMA (AAMA)
Fourth Delegate: Ashlyn James CMA (AAMA)
No Alternate Delegates were elected. These Delegates will represent you at the Florida Conference, September 21-25, 2023, in Lake Buena Vista.
Nominating Committee:
Kathy Ham, CMA (AAMA)
Ashlyn James, CMA (AAMA).
Virginia Marquette, CMA (AAMA)
Cynthia Pilgrim, CMA (AAMA)
During the meeting, there were several items that were discussed with motions coming forward. The 2022 Minutes were returned to the Minutes Committee to correct errors in spelling and other items. All Bylaws were approved with one bylaws being amended before approval. You can read the bylaws on the website. The Standing Rules were approved as well as the budget for fiscal year 2023-24.
The General Assembly voted for no fees for virtual CEUs for the next two years. This will be a time for all of you to collect your CEUs for recertification at no cost to you. The General Assembly also voted to absorb the cost of in-person meetings for the next two years which will include the CEUs offered. This will be a time of celebration to get back together as a Society. You will only be responsible for your sleeping room fee. We will not have fees for one South Meeting and one North meeting.
Reminder of future events:
The following are events all our members can attend. The SWR, Houston Hobby Airport Double Tree Hotel, July 21-23 is our leadership conference with all members invited to attend. This is a time where leaders from all our 8 SWR states come together to be available for questions on leadership roles. Most flights we checked will not get you into Houston until the meeting has begun so you might need to make a room reservation for Thursday, July 20 if you cannot reach the hotel by noon. They are planning around 10 CEUs for the weekend. Registration will open June 1 for everyone.
AAMA’s 67th Annual Conference will be September 22-25 with most members from the western states coming in on Thursday, September 21 because of time zone issues. The Conference will be held at the Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista at Walt Disney Resort. You may register through CVENT and book your hotel at the same time.
CSMA is tentatively planning its meeting in 2024 the weekend of April 12-14, since Easter falls in March and several leaders usually have conflicting events for the following weekend. More information will be posted on the meeting plans in the next several months; however, we are leaning toward a virtual meeting again.
CSMA wishes to thank our outgoing officers, committee chairs and committee members for their dedication, commitment and work in 2022-23. Although this year we have fewer volunteers right now, we hope that we will gain some during the year to help us stabilize our Society. We look forward to working with our new incoming officers and leaders.
Lastly, CSMA is asking our members if they wish to continue to receive email from CSMA. We have had a few members ask that they not be sent emails from CSMA. If you do not wish to receive email about notifications of events, please respond to 2021csmapresident@gmail.com and we will remove you from our email list.We know your privacy is important to you so we will do this if you request it. To add you back to receiving notifications of events through emails, you will need to contact us at the above email address and ask to be added back.
Thank you to all of you for your trust and confidence in your leaders to sustain this great organization.
My best wishes to all our members to remain safe and healthy. We look forward to “good things” ahead.
Your leaders who currently serve you wish to thank our membership for their confidence and trust in the abilities as your leaders.
Joyce Nakano, CMA (AAMA)
CSMA President
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