Executive Summary - CAMTS Board Meeting - September 13-15. 2007 Tampa, Florida
The Board of Directors met for three days in Tampa, Florida prior to the AMTC. Dr. Rogers welcomed, Ms Patti Corbett who was recently hired as the Associate Executive Director of CAMTS. Ms Corbett resides in North Carolina and will be able to commute to the current office in South Carolina most weeks of the month.
There were 18 accreditation deliberations and five progress reports reviewed by the full Board. There were also 45 progress reports reviewed by the Executive Committee.
Mr. Dudley Smith, Treasurer discussed the budget and payment delays based on the way we are currently billing. The site surveyor travel, expenses and fees are billed after the site visit and due within 30 days of the billing date. Mr. Smith also disclosed plans to bring all the bookkeeping into the CAMTS office as one of the primary responsibilities of the new Associate Executive Director.
Ms Frazer gave an update on AMTC activities that included two workshops. Preparing for Accreditation is the workshop we have provided for the last 15 years to help new applicants and programs applying for reaccreditation become familiar with the process and new standards. This year we will specifically review how to complete the PIF and each attachment so that attendees have a good understanding of what is requested and how to proceed. The other workshop called "Creating a Culture of Safety and Quality" is new and is being presented by Dr. Rogers, Dr. Overton, Donna York-Clark and Tina Giangrasso. Over the past few months, this small group has been discussing QM and DR and how to help programs develop an effective process. The steering group decided that we needed to start with addressing "Organizational Culture" and worked hard on this 1st ever presentation. Flight Safety has already expressed interest in offering this presentation as a pre-conference workshop for their Flight Safety Forum in May 2008.
Ms Karen Rogers provided a report on the site survey schedule and site visits for the future. Ms Rogers also reported on our continued internal QM process and some verbiage changes in the site surveyor policy section of the Policy Manual.
Of the twenty-three accreditation deliberations, there were: 12 full accreditations, 4 probational accreditations, 2 provisional actions, 1 intent to suspend and 2 deferred actions. We congratulate the following services for achieving accreditation:
New Accreditations:
St Mary's Life Flight - Duluth, MN RW
Alaska Regional Hospital Life Flight - Anchorage FW
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Reaccredited:
AeroCare - Lubbock, TX RW/FW
AeroCare MTi - Tulsa, OK RW/FW
Air Ambulance Specialists Inc.- Englewood, CO FW
Air Life of Oregon - Bend, OR RW/FW
Air Med - Salt Lake City, UT RW/FW
CALST AR - Hayward, CA RW/FW
Flight Care - Saginaw, MI RW
HealthNet - Charleston, WV RW
LifeNet Arizona - Tucson RW
Life Star - Hartford, CT RW
Mercy Air Service, Inc - Rialto, CA RW
Native Air Service - Mesa, AZ RW/FW
North Flight - Traverse City, MI RW/FW
STAT Medevac - Pittsburgh, P A RW/FW/G
Meeting adjourned at 3:00 PM on September 15, 2007. The next Board meeting will be
held in Alexandria, VA - March 14-16, 2008.