Coming Up: CMSA 2023 National Conference

June 27–30

Colleen Morley,

It’s an electrifying time for the Case Management Society of America (CMSA)! Our annual conference (June 27-30 at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas) is just around the corner. If you have never been to a national CMSA conference, this is your invitation to check it out! If you have been to a conference, but not in recent years, this is your invitation to re-engage. If you come to the conference every year, we can’t wait to see you and reconnect!

CMSA is excited to offer continuing education credits for conference registrants for the following: RN, ASWB, CCM & CCM Ethics, CDMS & CDMS Ethics, CRC & CRC Ethics, and CPHQ (pending approval).

Colleen Morley, DNP, RN, CCM, CMAC, CMCN, ACM-RN, FCM, is current president of the Case Management Society of America National Board of Directors and principal of Altra Healthcare Consulting in Chicago, IL. She has held positions in acute care as director of case management at several acute care facilities and managed care entities in Illinois for over 14 years, piloting quality improvement initiatives focused on readmission reduction, care coordination through better communication, and population health management. Her current passion is in the area of improving health literacy. She is the recipient of the CMSA Foundation Practice Improvement Award (2020) and ANA Illinois Practice Improvement Award (2020) for her work in this area.

CMSA’s 30 concurrent sessions are designed to spark conversations and innovations, and provide strategies and solutions along with practical tools and successful initiatives for professional case managers and case management systems.

Topics run the gamut of practice settings and include acute care, maternal/child health/pediatrics, mental/ behavioral health, managed care/managed Medicare/managed Medicaid, ambulatory case management, older adult/geriatric care, post-acute/community care and of course, military services/DoD/Veterans Affairs dedicated programming.

Enhance your case management practice with subjects including communication techniques, value-based reimbursement, disease/condition-specific readmission prevention, transition management, technology, professional development, leadership, self-care, and legal/regulatory/ethical.

Presentations have been categorized to help you plan your educational program according to where you are in your career path.

NOVICE: New to case management practice, care coordination, and transition management culture, students, or health care professionals not familiar with case management as a specialty/profession.

INTERMEDIATE: Those with some case management practice experience and familiarity with the culture.

ADVANCED: Those who are very familiar with case management practice and culture. The individual may be in a leadership position or seeking leadership skills.

Back by popular demand! CMSA networking roundtables. Make the most of your in-person conference experience with this engaging and interactive session designed to help you make connections, expand your learning, share best practices, and have some fun! During this session, tables will be marked with a variety of topics, settings, and disciplines to help you find peers with similar interests, experiences, and challenges.

And our incredible keynote lineup is not to be missed!

• Kai Kight, violinist turned composer, innovator: “Compose Your World”

The systems and routines we depended on for so long have disappeared. Let’s identify the opportunities for innovation resulting from recent changes in health care delivery.

• Bruce Berger, PhD, researcher, professor, communications expert: “Living With Your Eyes Open: Recognizing & Addressing Self Deception”

We know from health disparities research that sometimes we see patients (and others in our life) as objects and not people. Why does this happen, continues on page 34