Call for Board Nominations

The Arizona Health Information Management Association (AzHIMA) Nominating Committee wants you to suggest fellow members and/or yourself as possible candidates for the AzHIMA Board of Director positions for the next association year July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022.

The deadline date is November 30, 2020.

Nominations are being accepted for the following positions:

• President-Elect – 3 year term (President-Elect, President, Past-President)
• Delegate – 2 year term (1st Year Delegate, 2nd Year Delegate)
• Director of Advocacy – 2 year term

Elected BOD persons are expected to:

• Be a current  AHIMA member in good standing
• Have Arizona as primary AHIMA Component State Association (CSA)
• Attend BOD meetings. Meetings are generally held 9 times a year, via webex. There will be no meeting in June, September or October (depending the date of the AHIMA National Meeting), and/or December. Meeting days are determined by the incoming President.  For July’s BOD meeting, it may be an all-day face-to-face meeting due to transition of the incoming and outgoing board members.
• Time expectations include about 10 hours a month.  Two to three hours for the BOD meeting, BOD follow/up items, emails, and regularly visits to the AHIMA, State leaders Engage, and AZ Geographic Engage.
• Have employer support
• Have computer and email access
• Be able to travel local and out of state
• Association travel may require sharing a room with same sex board member
• Write an article(s) for the newsletter quarterly and when the association sends you to a meeting’
• Travel Assignments

President/President-Elect
AHIMA Leadership Symposium – Chicago, IL – 3 days (usually Thursday – Saturday in July)

President, President-Elect, Past President, 1st & 2ndYear Delegates
National AHIMA House of Delegates – 2 days in September or October

President-Elect, Advocacy Director & Others as assigned
AHIMA Advocacy Day – 3 days (Sun – Tues in March)

All Board of Directors
AzHIMA State Convention – 3 days – All BOD Positions (usually in June)

For more information please contact the Nominating Committee:
Committee Chair: Katherine Andersen at katherine.andersen@scahealth.org