AACVPR: Celebrating Our Past, Present, and Future

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AACVPR Celebrating Our Past, Present, and Future

• Larry F. Hamm
• AACVPR Affiliate Leadership Forum
• November 16, 2007

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Celebrating Our Past Present
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Timeline Highlights

• 1985 Established with initial membership ???
• 1996 Contracted with GRQ
• 2001 Changed management to SmithBucklin
• 2003 Restructured Board of Directors,
  established SAC, and leadership succession
  process
• 2005 20th anniversary celebration
• 2007 Membership 2,803

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Membership
13 increase
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Financial Resources

• Through the efforts of our volunteer leadership
  and the SmithBucklin staff, our finite financial
  resources have been managed in a very effective
  manner
• Annual budget process
• Reserve Balance
• Allows for funding special initiatives

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Committees 2001

• Affiliate
• Cardiac Guidelines
• Certification
• Credentials
• Education
• Heart Lung Foundation
• Membership
• Marketing

• Outcomes
• Publications
• Program Planning

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Committees 2007-08

• Affiliate Link
• Awards
• Corporate Relations
• Document Oversight
• Education
• Finance
• Health Policy Reimbursement
• Heart Lung Foundation
• JCRP Editorial Board
• Leadership
• Membership Services
• News Views

• Nominating
• Outcomes
• Physician Newsletter CR
• Physician Newsletter PR
• Professional Liaisons
• Program Planning
• Program Certification
• Program Recertification
• Research
• Scientific Advisory Council
• Web Site Oversight

Increased from 12 ? 22 (83)
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Current Task Forces

• Affiliate Advocacy Training Initiative
• Disease Management
• National Registry Project hired Project Manager
  10/07
• Exercise Physiologist
• Program Certification/Recertification
• Referral Enhancement

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Journal and Books

• Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation
  Prevention
• Indexed in Index Medicus (1996)
• ISI Impact Factor (2007)
• Submissions increasing 10 per year
• JCRP Editorial Board
• Online access
• Publications
• Cardiac rehab guidelines
• Cardiac rehab resource manual
• Pulmonary rehab guidelines

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Clinical/Scientific Statements

• Partners with
• American Heart Association
• American College of Cardiology
• American Thoracic Society
• American College of Chest Physicians
• PAD Coalition
• Currently associated with gt 25 statements and
  guidelines in print

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Celebrating Our Future
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National Office

• AACVPR National Office Association Management
  Team/Group
• SmithBucklin, Chicago
• Marie Bass Executive Director
• Stability of our financial foundation
• Strategic planning to daily operations
• www.aacvpr.org
• aacvpr_at_sba.com

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AACVPR Volunteer Leadership

• Larry F. Hamm, PhD
• Current President
• Murray Low, EdD
• President-Elect
• Jody Heggestad Hereford, BSN, MS
• Immediate Past-President

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AACVPR Volunteer Leadership

• Board of Directors
• Terri Merritt-Worden Secretary
• G. Curt Meyer Treasurer
• Leonard Kaminsky Member-at-Large
• Directors
• Richard Josephson Education and Communications
• Debra Lund Health Policy and Reimbursement
• Chris Garvey Leadership
• Bryan Finn Member Services
• Randal Thomas Research and Publications
• Mark Senn Certification and Outcomes

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AACVPR Volunteer Leadership

• Scientific Advisory Council (SAC)
• 10-member advisory group
• Ensure representation of the multi-disciplinary
  constituencies within AACVPR
• Pulmonologist, pulmonary RN, RT, cardiologist,
  cardiac RN, academic EP, clinical EP, dietitian,
  behavioral scientist, PT
• Provides access to expertise and advice for the
  AACVPR Board of Directors and Leadership

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Scientific Advisory Council

• James Barnett, AA, RRT
• Gerene Bauldoff, RN, PhD
• Joseph Norman, PhD
• Richard Novitch, MD
• Carl Lavie, MD

• Charles Emery, PhD
• Peter Brubaker, PhD
• Joseph Carlson, PhD, RD
• Ray Squires, PhD
• Gail Crocker, BS, RN

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AACVPR Mission Statement
To reduce morbidity, mortality, and disability
from cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases
through education, prevention, rehabilitation,
research, and aggressive disease management
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AACVPR Strategic Plan

• Each strategic initiative must be related to our
  mission
• Strategic initiatives are developed annually at
  the Strategic Planning Meeting every December
• Each initiative may have several objectives
• The plan is made operational by the Annual Plan
  of Work
• Develop strategies around each objective
• Strategic Plan Plan of Work provide a blueprint
  for the annual agenda that will guide leadership,
  Board of Directors, annual budget development,
  and administration

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2007 Strategic Initiatives

• 1. Develop strategies to increase referrals to
  cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services
  (NEW)
• 2. Increase membership in AACVPR to advance the
  mission of the organization (ONGOING)
• 3. Enhance reimbursement for CR and PR services
  (ONGOING)

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2007 Strategic Initiatives

• 4. Increase visibility of AACVPR and awareness of
  the field of cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation
  (ONGOING)
• 5. Promote innovation and best practice in
  service delivery to optimize patient care in a
  changing healthcare climate (ONGOING)

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Leadership Board of Directors
Strategic Plan Plan of Work
SAC, Committee TF Chairs Members
Affiliate Leaders Membership
Consultants Advisors