President's Welcome - Steven Blake, FHFMA, MBA

Welcome and Happy New Year! Fiscal Year 2012 promises to be a great year for the Southern California Chapter of HFMA.

2012 is off to a great start. We finished FY 2011 hitting 100% of the chapter goals for the year. A record number of members took their exams and achieved advanced membership status. We exceeded our goals for education hours and membership continued to grow.
In addition to our regular general education sessions (August, November and March), we hosted the combined Northern and Southern California Fall Conference and committed to planning combined Fall Conferences in the future with the San Diego Chapter. We are excited about this new opportunity for collaboration with other chapters.

The Chapter has presented several Webinars this past year in order to reach members who are unable to travel or get away from the Office. These have proven to be very successful and helped members stay up to date on many current topics. We have adopted an innovative approach to pricing which allows institutions to register a common portal for a nominal amount that provides web-based education to a group for a single rate per log-on.

We have also started a series of institutional based training based on nationally recognized workbooks starting with the Revenue Cycle.

Our Chapter Committee members work extremely hard to come up with topics and speakers for our programs. We hope that we are able to allow you to stay up to date on our ever-changing healthcare environment.

I encourage everyone to take advantage of our website as it contains listings of educational events, copies of Newsbriefs, Membership information, our photo gallery, and a listing of our Officers and Board members and Committee Chairs.

Thank you

Steven Blake, FHFMA, CPA
President - HFMA, Southern California Chapter