General Description: The Audit Committee is responsible for periodically reviewing the Chapter’s financial statements and reporting the findings to the Officers and Board members.

Objectives:

• On an annual basis, the Audit Committee Chair, with the assistance of the committee members, will report to the Chapter board and officers the financial position of the Chapter by preparing a Balance Sheet, Statement of Operations, and a Statement of Cash Flows.

General Description: The Bylaws Committee is responsible for ensuring that the Chapter operates within the scope of the Bylaws.  They will review and recommend revisions to the Chapter Bylaws annually and on an as needed basis.

Objectives:

• Monitor Chapter activities for adherence to Bylaws.
• Review Bylaws and Policies & Procedures manual annually and/or as needed and submit proposed amendments to the Officers and Board for approval.
• Update Policies and Procedures as new policies are voted on and approved by board.

General Description: The Certification Committee is responsible for promoting the benefits of professional certification of all members and providing the means to secure study information, provide coaching courses and scheduling testing dates. The Certification Chair must be certified as a CHFP or FHFMA.

Objectives:

• Provide assistance to Chapter members to secure study materials.
• Maintain a list of members studying for the exam and assign a member of the committee to be a mentor for each member studying for the exam.
• Must be Chapter members who are certified and active members to serve on the committee.

General Description: The Chapter CFO Committee Chair is responsible for promoting CFO membership in HFMA and promoting CFO attendance at Regional meetings, as well as providing feedback from CFOs on HFMA meetings and educational programs.

Objectives:

• Develop and maintain a database of Arkansas healthcare CFOs.
• Develop a process to survey healthcare CFOs to attain their feedback on the content of quarterly meetings and suggestions for topics in the future.
• Plan annual CFO meeting

General Description: Chairs the newsletter committee, which is responsible for gathering information and composing the Chapter newsletter & blog, The News-breaker, for distribution to the membership and sponsors.  Responsible for maintaining Chapter social media accounts.

Objectives:

• Solicits information from the Chapter membership and outside sources for inclusion in The News-breaker, which is published each quarter just prior to quarterly meetings.
• Responsible for publication of The News-breaker/Blog, both printed and website versions.
• Takes pictures at quarterly Chapter meetings as well as National meetings attended for inclusion in The News-breaker/Blog.
• Promote Chapter activities through social media, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

General Description: The Corporate Sponsorship committee obtains from corporate sponsors who are willing to financially support the Chapter. These sponsorships allow our Chapter to remain financially viable and continually provide quality meetings and information to Chapter members at an affordable cost.

Objectives: 

• Help sponsorship committee in obtaining determined financial support goals.
• Keep an updated report on sponsorship opportunities for potential sponsors.
• Continually encourage HFMA members to support our sponsors and provide insight on services that may assist them in their daily healthcare functions.
• Monitor attendees at each Chapter meeting to identify potential new sponsors and provide them with information about Chapter sponsorship.

General Description: The CPE Coordination Committee is responsible for verifying that educational opportunities offered by the Chapter meet state and NASBA CPE standards and submits NASBA certification application annually. 

Objectives:

• Review meeting brochures timely to verify that all information necessary for CPE verification is included.
• Stay abreast of changing state and NASBA requirements regarding CPE eligibility.
• Provide feedback to the Program Committee on whether proposed educational presentations meet technical CPE standards.
• CPE Committee is responsible for coordinating December education meeting for CPAs.

General Description: The Critical Access Committee Chair is responsible for making sure that the Chapter offers educational opportunities that are relevant to critical access hospitals and for keeping Chapter leadership informed about developments in the healthcare world that are relevant to critical access hospitals.

Objectives:

• Reach out to other critical access hospital leaders to promote Chapter membership and activities.
• Seek out feedback from critical access hospital leaders regarding issues that are important to them and content they would like to see the Chapter provide.

General Description: Create a formal process for personal outreach to new, early careerist members.

Objectives:  

• Develop the infrastructure at the chapter level to pair early careerists with more tenured leaders.
• Identify those who want to be mentored soon after they join.
• Assist with identifying effective ways to communicate the value of HFMA to future healthcare financial leaders.

General Description: Committee will create a formal process for professional outreach to new enterprise members.

Objectives:  

• Develop the infrastructure at the chapter level to reach out to enterprise members.
• Identify needs that enterprise members seek from Chapter after they join.
• Assist with identifying effective ways to communicate the value of HFMA to enterprise members.

General Description: The Founders Committee is responsible for ensuring that Chapter members’ Founders points are communicated to National HFMA in an accurate and timely manner.

Objectives:

• Ensure that committee participation and other Founders points are updated correctly in the National HFMA system.
• Reach out to members to have them verify that their Chapter participation is reflected appropriately in the National HFMA system.
• Provide updated Founder award recipients to website yearly.

General Description: The HERe Women’s Leadership Committee is responsible for leading efforts to carry out HFMA’s women’s leadership initiative through planning events and activities and promoting Chapter events to female members and potential members.

Objectives:

• Reach out to women in the Chapter to find out what their interests and concerns are related to their participation in Chapter events.
• Plan annual Chapter HERe conference.  
• Provide input to Chapter officers and board regarding ways to promote women’s participation and leadership in the Chapter.

General Description: This Committee is responsible for maintaining Chapter membership and recruiting new members.

Objectives:

• Interacts with HFMA National to maintain Chapter membership roster and develop recruiting strategies.
• Contacts and welcomes new Chapter members.
• Coordinates efforts to reach out to former members who did not renew their HFMA memberships to encourage them to remain part of the Chapter.

General Description: The Membership Directory Committee coordinates the production and distribution of the annual membership directory. They are responsible for ensuring that the membership directory is prepared and distributed in compliance with National HFMA regulations.

Objectives:

• The directory must be produced within the regulations, guidelines and timeline provided by National HFMA, including all of the required national and local information.
• Responsible for coordinating with the Corporate Sponsor Chair to ensure that all advertisements are included in the directory for sponsors who are entitled based on their level of support to the Chapter.
• Responsible for making general contact with the Arkansas HFMA membership to update their personal information on-line with HFMA to ensure that all changes are included in the directory. This is usually done through email. 

General Description: The Philanthropy committee is responsible for coordinating and promoting different charity projects at our quarterly conferences. Promote to chapter members that the chapter wants to and the importance of giving back to their communities.

Objectives: 

• Identify worthy projects for the chapter members to donate at quarterly conferences.
• Promote and identify items that need to be brought to the conferences by members.
• Coordinate collection of items at the conferences, announce winners from drawing and make sure follow up reporting to all members of the results of the project.

General Description: The Physician Group Practice committee is responsible for updating the Chapter leadership and membership on any known changes and practices that might have an effect on Arkansas hospitals.

Objectives: 

• Update the membership on any significant changes in physician practices or billing that will affect the hospitals and or their abilities to perform their job duties.
• Reach out to other Physician Group Practice leaders to promote Chapter membership and activities.
• Seek out feedback from Physician Group Practice leaders regarding issues that are important to them and content they would like to see the Chapter provide at meetings.

General Description: The Revenue Cycle committee is responsible for making sure that the Chapter offers educational opportunities that are relevant to revenue cycle personnel and for keeping Chapter leadership informed about developments in the healthcare world that are relevant to hospital revenue cycle operations.

Objectives:

• Plan annual one-day Revenue Cycle Seminar.  Additional revenue cycle educational events may be held at the Chair and Chapter’s discretion.
• As needed, hold focus groups to determine topics of interest or concern to the revenue cycle community.
• Reach out to HFMA and AHA leaders regarding advocacy issues or opportunities of interest to the revenue cycle community.
• Encourage revenue cycle leaders throughout the state to participate in local and regional HFMA meetings.

General Description: The Networking/Entertainment Committee is responsible for making sure that the Chapter offers networking opportunities that are entertaining to the chapter members at conferences and other times during the year.

Objectives:

• Plan networking events at quarterly conferences.
• Coordinate the events at the conferences or other event dates so that attendees meet, network and socialize with their peers.
• Encourage chapter members to participate in networking activities that the chapter hosts. 

General Description: The Website Committee is responsible for management and development of Arkansas HFMA’s Chapter website.

Objectives:

• The Website committee promotes and coordinates the Chapter website.
• Coordinates closely with National HFMA and our representatives with the hosting service.
• Explore ways to utilize the Internet to improve Chapter communications and activities.
• Monitors the website utilization and recommends areas of expansion as necessary.