Estelle Welte
Chapter President 2016-2017
A Message from the Chapter President...
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Hello SC HFMA Membership,
I am honored to include this President’s message in our newsletter. I have lots to share with you, but want to start this with the mention that our chapter did experience a great loss in February. A dear member of our chapter, Ray High, passed away suddenly on February 15, 2017. Ray was a Past President, and incoming Regional Exec-Elect for HFMA National. Ray High was a wonderful person. Kind, caring, thoughtful, strong-work ethic, love of family and church. He will truly be missed. For more information about Ray, his family, and fund set up by his church, please visit our website. Thank you to the many HFMA members that attended his services, from all over the Southeast.
I do want to update you on the happenings within our Chapter:
• In the Fall of 2016 we held a very successful Annual Fall Institute in beautiful Charleston,
SC. Most notable was the great education offerings, including a new “Ted Talks” style format/education delivery, which was submitted for a possible HFMA National Yerger award this year.
• Keeping with our theme of THRIVE and #BeBold, we were informed in January that SC-
HFMA had indeed won our Innovation Funding Award for our 1st Inaugural Women’s Conference held in September. This designation was provided with funding of $7000, to cover the costs of our event.
• We had our CRCA awards banquet back on January 13th, and celebrated with our CRCA graduates and other award winners who were recognized. Thank you to our CRCA chair, Koshina Leggett, Debbie Hunt, and Diane Story, who planned the awards banquet. We were honored that our dear Ray High was MC of the event that day and we shared a day of fun and celebration.
• Recently our HFMA region held the Region 5 Dixie Conference, where we were one of five states that came together in March. The Dixie event was held in Savannah and had great participation from our SC members.
It is hard to believe that we are headed in to May, and thinking about warmer weather. With that comes our preparation for our Annual Institute, to be held May 30 – June 2, 2017, in Myrtle Beach. Visit our website and register today. We are also starting to talk about next Chapter year. Having just attended the HFMA National Leadership Training Conference, in April, I will tell you that we are in for another fun and successful year!
As always, we’d love to get to know you better and have you get more involved. If serving on one of our committees, or even a desire to move in to leadership in our Chapter, please reach out to anyone in leadership in our chapter. They will help steer you to the right person!
Thank you for the honor and privilege of serving as your Chapter President
Estelle Barnes
Chapter President