2015 Board of Governors
Report
Robert Shor, MD, FACC
BOG Chair
Overview
The Overarching Goals:
Improving the Relevance of the ACC and the Chapters for our members
Facilitating the CVT’s ability to provide and transform cardiovascular care and
improve Heart Health.
The How:
Enhanced communication (bidirectional)
Enhance Chapter effectiveness
Greater involvement of Sections in the Chapters
Improving institutional memory and member engagement
Overview
Enhanced communication (bidirectional)
• Member surveys-MOC etc
• BOG surveys-assessing interest in a variety of projects and
meeting topics
• Opening the BOG Listserv to the BOT
Enhance Chapter effectiveness
• Best practices
• GOALS sheet
Greater involvement of Sections in the Chapters
BOG Survey:
Interest in more expansive BOG projects Top Three
1. State Advocacy
2. 25 x 25
3. State wide review of NCDR
Advocacy
Advocacy Activities
• Insurance Denial Efforts
– Communication with RBMs
– Exploring Creation of Database to Track Denials and
Substitutions
– Potential direct discussions with RBMs
• Improving Statewide Advocacy Efforts
– Developing a More Robust Statewide Advocacy System
– Alerting Chapters of Relevant Issues and Increased
Coordination with ACC National
How does the ACC identify
important state legislation?
• Legislative Software:
– StateNet, processes search terms and sends bills, hearing dates
and summaries as they become available.
• Key Allies:
– We maintain an open dialogue with State medical societies, AHA
affiliates and others with similar state advocacy interests.
• BOG and Chapter Executives:
– Sometimes you (or your contract lobbyists) will be contacted by
state legislators or others for your opinion on legislation.
Working with Chapters, their lobbyists and allies
such as state medical associations are excellent
resources for identifying legislation and for
providing insight about why a bill is introduced
and its prospects for passing.
Member Value and Engagement
Member Value and Engagement
Activities
•
•
•
•
•
Launch of BOG Mentorship Program at ACC.15
– Enhance effectiveness of BOG members
– Retain the energy, wisdom and experience of the former BOG
leadership
Updated MOC Survey (April 2015)
BOG Survey to Assess Priorities For Coming Years
(May 2015)
– Opened BOG listserv to BOT to enhance bidirectional communication
Population Health Survey to BOG – forthcoming
Leadership Portal
– Capturing BOG listserv discussions to preserve institutional memory
Introducing the ACC’s
Leadership
Portal
One-stop resource for member leaders, chapter
executives and ACC staff to quickly access:
• Slide sets
• Resource materials
• Discussion summaries
Additional Membership Value and
Engagement Activities
•
Continued Collaborations with Member Sections
• Academic- aligning priorities in advocacy and FIT transition
• FIT- 28 State Chapters and Canada participating in FIT Jeopardy
• CV Training Directors- Coordinating transition from FITs to EC/Chapter
involvement
• EC- Improving engagement in Chapters
• Geriatric- Collaborating in distribution of modules/Chapter meetings and
potential MOC Part 2
•
• Imaging- Ins Denial/substitution project
• Surgeons- member engagement
• IV- Collaborate on revision of NCDR STEMI reporting
Attended Section Retreat/Have Spoken with Section Chairs to
develop collaborative efforts
Additional Membership Value
and Engagement Activities
•
•
Improved Chapter Accountability
– Chapter Goals Aligned with College’s Strategic Plan and Increased
BOG Oversight
– Have spoken with/will speak with first year Governors
Opportunity for Chapters to Apply For Need-Based
Grants from ACC National-
and has been approved!
NJ is the first Chapter to submit
Population Health
Population Health Activities
• Promoting 25x25 at the Chapter level
• To share strategies from July Population Health
Retreat Chapters may emulate
• Survey to Chapters forthcoming – will request
information about current activities and
present ways ACC National can
assist
Purposeful Education
Purposeful Education
Activities
• Leadership curriculum for BOG meetings
over next three years
– Leadership Forum 2016: Focus on Crucial Conversations
– Full, fleshed out curriculum to follow, but the intent is to provide
the essentials for leadership over three years.
– Every 3 years the BOG Leadership Meeting will include
participation in the CV Summit
Transformation of Care
Transformation of Care Activities
• Statewide NCDR Projects – what can we learn and how
can we improve?
• We are exploring how we can review the NCDR data on
a statewide level and apply to transform care.
• Emulating VCSQI
Thank you!